I generally budget ~$1200 to $1500/year for a Macbook Pro. Time to get a new one, and I'm trying to decide:
- 32GB/2TB/slowest CPU/GPU/etc. ( $3,399.00 )
- 64GB/4TB/fastest CPU/GPU/etc. ( $4,899.00 )
The intensive work I do is photography (Lightroom/Photoshop) and development (running multiple VMs). The rest is just web browsing, email, etc. So I don't really need the bigger machine -- 32GB RAM would be enough for the VMs, and I can't see myself taking an extra 2TB of pictures in the next few years.
I'd expect to replace the slower one in three years; the bigger one in ~4 years.
- If I go big I get four years of awesomeness, vs. three years of goodness, but not as awesome. More overhead to not worry about deleting files. Not worry about having tons of VMs running at the same time, or Photoshop + VMs. Faster CPU with more cores to make everything go faster.
- But conversely if I go small I get whatever new machine Apple has in three years, not four.
- I could lose/break/drop the machine, so having a more expensive one is bad.
- There could be some terrible flaw in this machine that Apple can't fix without a redesign (like the keyboards of the 2016-2018 machines), and I'd be stuck with the flaw for longer.
I've talked myself into both options about a dozen times now. Any thoughts? WWYD?
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- 32GB/2TB/slowest CPU/GPU/etc. ( $3,399.00 )
- 64GB/4TB/fastest CPU/GPU/etc. ( $4,899.00 )
The intensive work I do is photography (Lightroom/Photoshop) and development (running multiple VMs). The rest is just web browsing, email, etc. So I don't really need the bigger machine -- 32GB RAM would be enough for the VMs, and I can't see myself taking an extra 2TB of pictures in the next few years.
I'd expect to replace the slower one in three years; the bigger one in ~4 years.
- If I go big I get four years of awesomeness, vs. three years of goodness, but not as awesome. More overhead to not worry about deleting files. Not worry about having tons of VMs running at the same time, or Photoshop + VMs. Faster CPU with more cores to make everything go faster.
- But conversely if I go small I get whatever new machine Apple has in three years, not four.
- I could lose/break/drop the machine, so having a more expensive one is bad.
- There could be some terrible flaw in this machine that Apple can't fix without a redesign (like the keyboards of the 2016-2018 machines), and I'd be stuck with the flaw for longer.
I've talked myself into both options about a dozen times now. Any thoughts? WWYD?
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