Which 14" pro to get?

[cambsnomac]

This is partly influenced by my desire to get one asap!!

Base model in stock but i need more than 512gb (have that in my 2013 MBP with around 130gb spare) - bearing in mind the 20% rule the 1tb model seems best.

The next one up (10 core and 16GPU) is 300 more than base (with the 1tb as an option) - so is that worth it (that pays for an apple keyboard, mouse and spare change!). Use the standard stuff but also Lightroom, may use Photoshop and will be doing video editing in iMovie (nothing to major, home video, gigs etc).

This will be only my 3rd MacBook in 14 years or so, so expecting 5-8 years of life from it!

 

[bdawwg]

There are so many threads on this all over the internet from the last 10 years at least, what's one more.

Every MBP in the line up is a beast, there is no going wrong.

If you're talking about getting a keyboard, I would assume this will be your desktop, at which point you could be better off getting an external HD.

 

[velocityg4]

The base CPU will be fine. I'd expect some small overall gain in Photoshop. As you can see from this Pugetsystems test looking at the overall difference between a 6 Core Ryzen and 8 Core Ryzen.

Adobe Photoshop: 11th Gen Intel Core vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series

Earlier this month, Intel announced the initial launch of their new 11th Gen Intel Core desktop processors (code-named "Rocket Lake"). These new processors are marketed as having substantially better per-core performance compared to their previous 10th Gen Core models, but will that be enough...

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The GPU shouldn't make much difference. Even drastically different GPU don't make much difference in Photoshop. As PS doesn't have much GPU optimization.

Adobe Photoshop - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Performance

With the launch of the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB, NVIDIA is finally at the end of their 3 month rolling launch of the GeForce 30 series cards. But while Photoshop does have a number of effects that can utilize the GPU, there generally isn't much of a performance difference between various cards...

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I wouldn't expect a huge difference in Lightroom either.

Ryzen XT and i9 10850K for Adobe CC: Are They Worth It?

Both AMD and Intel have recently released a number of minor updates to their CPUs with AMD launching the Ryzen 3600XT, 3800XT, and 3900XT while Intel has launched the Core i9 10850K. These new models are only slightly different than others that are already on the market, but do they provide any...

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While these tests are Intel chips on Windows. I just post them since it gives you an idea of how Photoshop and Lightroom scales up on hardware. Plus the tests are more thorough than most Mac reviews provide.

 

[TheRealAlex]

This is partly influenced by my desire to get one asap!!

Base model in stock but i need more than 512gb (have that in my 2013 MBP with around 130gb spare) - bearing in mind the 20% rule the 1tb model seems best.

The next one up (10 core and 16GPU) is 300 more than base (with the 1tb as an option) - so is that worth it (that pays for an apple keyboard, mouse and spare change!). Use the standard stuff but also Lightroom, may use Photoshop and will be doing video editing in iMovie (nothing to major, home video, gigs etc).

This will be only my 3rd MacBook in 14 years or so, so expecting 5-8 years of life from it!

Well since the 14” can’t even fully utilize the M1 Max to its fullest spec. There is no point in going M1 Max.