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The previous ranking article said the M3 ultra was the most powerful chip ever. Mac ecosystem is starting to feel like the PC world. Just give me 3 options. Ch
by blobbers 2y ago
The previous ranking article said the M3 ultra was the most powerful chip ever.
Mac ecosystem is starting to feel like the PC world. Just give me 3 options. Cheap, good, and expensive. Having to decide how many dedicated graphic cores for a teenagers laptop is impossible.
- bee_rider 2y agoFor chips, Ultra and Max are like their workstation chips or something, right? It seems expected that they should be a little more differentiated, they are specialist, aren’t they?
- erickhill 2y agoThe way I think about it is if I buy a Max chip I'm getting the performance of the generation that will be released a year later now in the current form factor, and then some. For example, I got the M1 Max when it was new. A year later the M2 came out. Spec-wise, the M1 Max was still a bit better than the M2 Pro in many regards. To me, getting a Max buys you some future proofing if you or your company can afford it (and you need that kind of performance). I use the Max with a lot of video work, and it's been fantastic.
- fckgw 2y agoThey have that. On laptops they have the M4, M4 Pro and M4 Max. Cheap, good and expensive.
- eyelidlessness 2y agoMy buying strategy has been the same since they started soldering RAM: buy the lowest spec CPU/GPU they offer with the amount of RAM I will need (which all but once has always been the maximum RAM they offer, which unfortunately usually means also buying the max CPU/GPU).
- zitterbewegung 2y agoIf you are in college or school getting a MacBook Air would be best and the size of your screen is going to have a higher impact (13 to 15 inch) than the Dedicated Graphics cores. Would advise not getting an MacBook Pro.
- hot_gril 2y agoFor the teen's laptop, you can simply get the base model. Even a base M1 is more than fast enough.