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I think your last paragraph sounds about right. The Max is a compromise on battery life for those who want the absolute most possible performance, but I think A
by dansalvato 3y ago
I think your last paragraph sounds about right. The Max is a compromise on battery life for those who want the absolute most possible performance, but I think Apple is seeing a much wider audience get the Pro chip. Anecdotally, whenever I see a tech person mention their Apple silicon device, it's almost always a Pro chip. I'm sure only a small fraction of that user base is hitting all cores with a full load on a regular basis, but a majority are certainly enjoying a killer battery life.
- runeks 3y agoI chose the M1 Max over the M1 Pro only to get 32GB RAM. I couldn’t care less about the GPU (which makes it annoying to have to pay for it).
- lionello 3y agoI have an M1 Pro with 32GB
- jwr 3y agoI'll be buying the Max this year, upgrading from an M1 Pro. The Max actually started making sense, because there are more performance cores and memory bandwidth is bigger. I don't much care about GPU: I wish Fusion 360 ran faster, but Autodesk doesn't seem to care much about Mac performance. What I do care about is CPU for Clojure development work, and for that the new Max actually makes sense. In the M1 generation there was no benefit from going from Pro to the Max.