Apple

which mac should i buy?

- i mostly do web dev for work
- on my computer all day every day. no tolerance for lag, ram limits, etc
- not compiling anything, editing video, etc
- i have a ton of chrome tabs open
- want at least 1tb disk space
- willing to pay extra for futureproofing

mba, mbp, mini? m3 or m4?

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Hey @grin - I'm doing a HW update write at the minute too, I'll give you my configuration and decision making thoughts, in case it's at all useful to your context:

Currently on Macbook Air M1, 8GB RAM - which was doing amazingly well as a dev machine on just 8GB, because of the all the new "unified memory" on Apple silicon making that perform much better than what 8GB used to mean.

Plan:
I'm jumping to the 14" MBP, M4 Pro, 24GB-memory, 512GB-ssd.

Rationale:
Was intending to jump to the Macbook Air (15") but given this is within a few hundred dollars of the air, and is the new chipset (the Air's aren't refreshed until next year I think) - seems to make sense.

A little more roomy screen that the 13", but still very portable for when travelling.  Will be more weighty though, but I'm mostly not travelling - and just running a 48" screen off the MBA at the main work desk.

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Yeah, good point about the M4 Air.

All thing being equal, I probably would wait to see what that manifests like in the refreshed MBA range....however, I hit a sudden wall with memory this week.  

It's like the size of the mono-repo stepped beyond some threshold, and the object-graph VSCode is building has totally fallen apart.  

Literally nothing works from the language server without 20 second reboot times on the background process, so I'm taking this as a message from the universe that it really wants me to have a MacBook Pro.

( thanks ✨✨✨🌬️....message received loud and clear 📡 )

thanks, this is really helpful. 

how does your workload compare to mine? 

have you considered waiting for the m4 air? it should be out in a few months