Upgrading to 32Gb/M1 Max?

[Sergio_S]

Forum, really need your help.

Going to order a Mac Book Pro 16" for my wife who is an illustrator (mainly working in Adobe Photoshop with no major background processes running). Her ask is 16" and 1 Tb SSD, but now the question is whether or not to buy a base model at 2699$, or future proof to M1Max 24GPU cores/32 GB RAM for an extra 600$. My gut telling me to buy base model and upgrade in 3 years if needed, but option to pay extra 600$ and keep it for 5-6 years is also appealing. Although there is a chance that she will be fine with base model for 5-6 years anyway, given her light workload.

Thoughts?

 

[iPhone1]

Happy wife, happy life. Go for M1 Max (maxed out) and 64GB RAM.

 

[Sergio_S]

Happy wife, happy life. Go for M1 Max (maxed out) and 64GB RAM.

True, but big screen and 1 Tb SSD will already make her happy. Question is about going one step further on CPU/RAM.

 

[iPhone1]

True, but big screen and 1 Tb SSD will already make her happy. Question is about going one step further on CPU/RAM.

From what I’ve read/seen, even the base M1 Pro is super good. And it seems 16GB of RAM is good, 32GB more than enough, 64GB is future proof level.

 

[fa8362]

Forum, really need your help.

Going to order a Mac Book Pro 16" for my wife who is an illustrator (mainly working in Adobe Photoshop with no major background processes running). Her ask is 16" and 1 Tb SSD, but now the question is whether or not to buy a base model at 2699$, or future proof to M1Max 24GPU cores/32 GB RAM for an extra 600$. My gut telling me to buy base model and upgrade in 3 years if needed, but option to pay extra 600$ and keep it for 5-6 years is also appealing. Although there is a chance that she will be fine with base model for 5-6 years anyway, given her light workload.

Thoughts?

Even the base is overkill for her use, and there will be no reason to upgrade in 3 years.

 

[OSX15]

base model is more than sufficient

 

[aevan]

Forum, really need your help.

Going to order a Mac Book Pro 16" for my wife who is an illustrator (mainly working in Adobe Photoshop with no major background processes running). Her ask is 16" and 1 Tb SSD, but now the question is whether or not to buy a base model at 2699$, or future proof to M1Max 24GPU cores/32 GB RAM for an extra 600$. My gut telling me to buy base model and upgrade in 3 years if needed, but option to pay extra 600$ and keep it for 5-6 years is also appealing. Although there is a chance that she will be fine with base model for 5-6 years anyway, given her light workload.

Thoughts?

16Gb is more than enough for illustration.

 

[ewu]

if you have enough budget, always choose 64GB ram with M1 Max

because M1 Pro/Max ram = cpu ram + graph ram