Your comments below indicate you're doing personal (hobby? Learning and experimentation?) programming on your MBP. In this case I would suggest buying a modern

Your comments below indicate you're doing personal (hobby? Learning and experimentation?) programming on your MBP. In this case I would suggest buying a modern Linux laptop with some kind of Nvidia GPU from Dell or ThinkPad which gives you the flexibility of a true Linux environment (Linux dominates servers) and an ML environment to learn on the same machine. You could get a lot beefier processor, a lot more RAM and a true GPU for a comparable price that gives you more experimentation options.