MacBook Pro 14" M3

Seriously impressive for the 20b model. Loaded on my 18GB M3 Pro MacBook Pro. ~30 tokens per second which is stupid fast compared to any other model I've used. Even Gemma 3 from Google is only around 17 TPS.

I've only tested it on my M3 Pro MacBook but it's not bad. At full speed (5 min = 1 game day) I've only hit performance issues when running my biggest NYC save with 200 stations and like 15 routes. Even then it runs at 70% of max speed, or 90% if you turn of the map layer showing population movement

I think price/hardware unit (CPU/ram/SSD) is actually lower, especially if we target premium models. Strictly speaking you have to spend more on absolute base, but then you get more hardware capacity. The same 3k now gives me double storage, 33% more ram, and faster chip (M3 pro Vs M5 pro) than the

I had an m1 8gb MBP for work and M1 8GB for personal use. It worked great but the 8gb started to limit my workflow heavily as apple pushed out newer and newer updates. My workflow hadn't changed. End up with a MBP M3 16GB for work and MBP M4 16GB. Had I gotten a M1 with 16gb still be using it today.

As one of the developers for the fintech software it's definitely not the software lol. I had to profile it to see where the bottleneck was. An example, a build of one of our stacks takes ~20s on my M3 pro MacBook pro / 32gb ram. Doing the same build (the app is multi arch so amd64 on windows and ar

FWIW - I'm using an M3 Pro MacBook Pro, 18gb, and I never (yes, I'm knocking ALL the wood right now) have the problems people seem to experience as endemic in this latest stuff. ** shrug ** I also avoid CocoaPods and non-SPM dependencies like the plague when possible. I use exactly zero plug ins or othe

I do what you do (modelling/large spatial datasets) with R/RStudio.. have a MacBook Pro M3 Pro chip with 36 GB. It is amazingly fast. Very glad I sprung for extra RAM. Surely new M5 chips even more efficient.

For that specific price range. You have a few options. You can go with the 512GB MacBook Neo using the Apple Education Store which will put you at $600 USD plus tax. I'm a huge tech snob, I won't lie. BUT, I've been daily driving it for grad school this past week and it gets the job done and typing

I use an M3 pro MacBook pro. I can run Z image at like 40 sec/image. Takes about 4-7 min to run a Qwen edit workflow, 3-5 min for SDXL. Flux 1 takes 20 mins for one image. I use the same workflows as everyone elese, just make sure you enable MPS fallback as there is no CUDA on Macs. So its not ideal

RAM is the most important. Also make sure that you get M1 Pro chip or the M3 Pro chip. Confusingly just the MacBook Pro base model is not the same and considerably weaker. I would honestly look at trusted resellers with good warranties. M1 Pro with 32 gb ram will be killer. You can always buy more s