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new macbook pro recommendation for me?
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well said. Everything depends your budget. Start from your budget and select the configuration, check if it can handle your work.
As others have said, 14" vs 16" is a personal pref based on your usage. What's great is that for any given configuration, for the first time with the MBPs, you can get identical configs and it's just a +$200 difference to go from 14" to 16" across the board.
Except for the 14" base model with the double-binned chip (8-core CPU / 14-core GPU) which is only available on the 14". Basically, Apple is de-activating 2 CPU cores and 2 GPU cores that don't pass its tests, but allows them to still sell the chip vs throwing it out completely. It's a really good value if you don't need the CPU/GPU horsepower, which I agree with others your use case doesn't need.
If money / budget is tight, I think it's a great idea to save the $300 on the CPU/GPU chip, and put it towards the +$400 for the 32gb memory upgrade. Of course, only if you're ok with the 14" form factor.
Except for the 14" base model with the double-binned chip (8-core CPU / 14-core GPU) which is only available on the 14". Basically, Apple is de-activating 2 CPU cores and 2 GPU cores that don't pass its tests, but allows them to still sell the chip vs throwing it out completely. It's a really good value if you don't need the CPU/GPU horsepower, which I agree with others your use case doesn't need.
If money / budget is tight, I think it's a great idea to save the $300 on the CPU/GPU chip, and put it towards the +$400 for the 32gb memory upgrade. Of course, only if you're ok with the 14" form factor.
For the money I like the 16" better when comparing the two in store. That larger display is more useful as a standalone laptop. Its near identical to an older mid 2012 15" retina MBP I had for years in dimensions and weight. Some here have both a 14" and 16" and didn't want to be frustrated with the benefits of either.
If you need to see two pages, then 16" is it (reason for the image post prior). The 14" is only 3 lbs, it has smaller fans, smaller speakers, smaller display. In the end the display made my choice along with the sound quality differences.
If I get the 14” MBP with an extra 27”monitor, trackpad, magic keyboard, it will be $400 cheaper than
in store model 16” M1 Max with
10-Core CPU
32-Core GPU
32GB Unified Memory
1TB SSD Storage¹
I never had an extra monitor, i never even thought about having one before yesterday (after reading you guys suggestions).
I know I would not need the extra “horsepower” from the 16” in store model. ? but the prices are not too big of a difference, the trade off is the big monitor. What do you guys think?
in store model 16” M1 Max with
10-Core CPU
32-Core GPU
32GB Unified Memory
1TB SSD Storage¹
I never had an extra monitor, i never even thought about having one before yesterday (after reading you guys suggestions).
I know I would not need the extra “horsepower” from the 16” in store model. ? but the prices are not too big of a difference, the trade off is the big monitor. What do you guys think?