What Mac specs should you buy for...

[theMarble]

Web Browsing, Movie Watching...
13" MacBook Air | Quad Core i5, 8GB RAM, Iris Plus GPU, 512GB SSD - $1299

School and Business Work...
13" MacBook Pro | 10th Gen Quad Core i5, 16GB RAM, Iris Plus GPU, 512GB SSD - $1799

Light Programming, Non-Intensive Video Editing...
13" MacBook Pro | 10th Gen Quad Core i7, 16GB RAM, Iris Plus GPU, 1TB SSD - $2199

Programming, Gaming, 1080p Video Editing...
16" MacBook Pro | 9th Gen Six Core i7, 32GB RAM, Radeon 5300M 4GB GPU, 512GB SSD - $2799
27" iMac | 10th Gen 8 Core i7, 8GB RAM (upgrade separately), Radeon 5500XT, 1TB SSD - $2499

4K+ Video Editing and other Intensive Work...
16" MacBook Pro | 9th Gen Eight Core i9, 32GB RAM, Radeon 5500M 8GB GPU, 1TB SSD - $3299
27" iMac | 10th Gen 10 Core i9, 8GB RAM (upgrade separately), Radeon 5700XT, 1TB SSD - $3499

RAW Video Editing, Programming, Medium Rendering Jobs, VM's...
16" MacBook Pro | 9th Gen Eight Core i9, 64GB RAM, Radeon 5600M 8GB GPU, 2TB SSD - $4699
27" iMac | 10th Gen 10 Core i9, 8GB RAM (upgrade separately), Radeon 5700XT, 2TB SSD - $3899

Heavy Rendering Jobs, Heavy Music Production, Editing, 3D Animation, Compute Heavy...
2019 Mac Pro | 16 Core Xeon W, 32 GB RAM (upgrade separately), Radeon W5700X 16GB, 4TB SSD - $9999

For the RAM upgrades:

1080p Editing = 16GB, preferably 32GB
4K Editing = 32GB
6K Editing = 64GB
7K+ = 128GB+
Programming = 32GB, preferably 64GB
Virtual Machines = 32GB, preferably 64GB
Photo Editing = 32GB
Web Browsing = 16GB
School Work, Documents... = 16GB
Gaming = 16-32GB
Music Production = 32+ GB

 

[tevion5]

Right now the top end MBA with an i7 is a better value than the similarly priced i5 MBP for the 'School and Business Work' category imo

- Much better single core performance
- More storage for the cost
- 6K support
- Much faster Memory, 3733 MHz vs 2133 MHz

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