Hey guys,

I found some decent deals here for black Friday (200 Euro off on both) over here and I am thinking about upgrading from my MacBook Pro M1 16GB 512 GB Storage. So I could buy an Air with M2, 10-GPU, 16GB & 512 GB Size or the base M3 Pro one for 600 Euro more. I am using the MacBook for office tasks and programming (iOS and Android) and of course the usual stuff like streaming etc etc.

Would you use the extra 600 bucks to get the M3 Pro or is that too much for my needs?

Thanks a lot! Jan

  • Septimaeus@infosec.pubEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Hi Jan. I think it depends, but for most programming workloads, the M1, M2, and M3 should be equally capable.

    Some programming-related tasks can be performed far more quickly on the newer chips, but they are domain-specific. I’d expect stuff like:

    1. Driving concurrent local integration tests
    2. Executing local multithreaded builds or tooling on large code bases
    3. Running numerous virtualized processes
    4. Doing any kind of large-batch model training Etc etc

    If you don’t need that kind of compute, I think the pro would be overkill.