Seeking advice between M2 Pro and M2 Max
Good morning!
I am in the market to upgrade my very old 2013 16" MacBook Pro.
Looking at the specs for the 16" M2 Pro v M2 Max I was leaning towards the 12-Core CPU, 38-Core GPU 32GB Unified Memory, 1TB SSD but before I commit I just want to seek everyone's thoughts on whether this is excessive for my needs.
I do some occasional image editing and will probably go ahead and buy adobe Lightroom but an area I am pretty keen on is video editing since purchasing the Mavic 3 Pro earlier this year.
It wont be for commercial purposes but I do want to get the most out of the video captured from the Mavic which is why I was thinking of the M2 Max but from what I am reading it appears this model is more aimed at commercial type editors, designers and intensive programming, etc.
So for a fairly big saving am I better off going with the M2 Pro 12-Core CPU, 19-Core GPU, 16GB Unified Memory, 1TB SSD Storage¹
any thoughts? Advice?
TIA!
Comments
If you plan on keeping the machine tor 10 years, prioritize RAM, then storage, and last would be compute performance. The RAM will be hugely important 5 years down the road, much more so the GPU and video ASICs.
Priorities change if you buy-sell/tradein every 3 years.