MacBook Pro 16-inch M1 Pro

Base config on the M5 MacBook Pro is still 16GB RAM. With all the stuff running in the background, they should have bumped base RAM up to at least 24GB. My M1 Pro with 16GB needs to use swap to handle stuff. But it will probably be another 10 years before Apple increases base RAM across the lineup.

A thousand cuts of poor software quality. Yes, all those shaders seem badly implemented. But ever since going to "faster" Metal over OpenGL, which just made everything slower back then, that's been a trend anyway. But there are also all the memory leaks. I don't mean the obvious big ones like "calcu

I'd go for the air. 3y and you're probably gonna spend a lot of time in a billion tabs and a latex or word doc so I'd take the air. I did my thesis on an m2 air 8gb (though all of my data crunchies were actually done on an m1 pro MacBook pro, I carried two laptops for a while lol) and people here ar

I do professional web backend development using the Go programming language on a MacBook Pro M1 Pro 16GB. And I can say that 16GB is barely enough, as the system often starts using swap. I'm running macOS Sequoia. On macOS Tahoe, RAM consumption would be even worse.

Bro with a 130K PKR hard budget, you cannot buy a modern MacBook that handles Blender and Clo 3D comfortably. Even a used base model MacBook Air M1 (8GB/256GB) goes for around 175K to 195K in the local Pakistani used market right now. For software like Blender, Clo 3D, Illustrator, and production-re