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The 10-core (8 performance) M1 Max starts around $2700 in the 14" form factor. It's hard to compare to laptops, but since we started the desktop comparison, a
by neogodless 5y ago
The 10-core (8 performance) M1 Max starts around $2700 in the 14" form factor.
It's hard to compare to laptops, but since we started the desktop comparison, a Ryzen 7 5800X is $450 MSRP, or about $370 current street price. Motherboards can be found for $100, but you'll more likely spend $220-250 for a good match. 32GB RAM is $150, 1TB Samsung 980 Pro is a bit under $200. Let's assume desktop RTX 3060 for the graphics (which is probably slightly more powerful than the 32-core GPU M1 Max) for MSRP $330 but street price over $700.
So we're at about $1670 for the components, before adding in case ($100), power supply ($100) and other things a laptop includes (screen, keyboard...).
- Osiris 5y agoMost of if not an of those components are reusable, such as case, power supply, monitors, peripherals, RAM, etc. In my case I'm reusing everything and just upgrading the CPU for $560. The end result will be similar or better performance than the MacBook. If you don't own any desktop computer parts at all then, yes, one can easily spend $2500 building a machine with similar performance.
- jshier 5y agoM1 Pro has the same CPU cores as the M1 Max, just half the GPU cores (and video coding cores). So you can get the same CPU performance in the 14" for as little as $2499.