Ask HN: Should I buy MacBook M1 Pro or M1 Max for software development

Re:Ask HN: Should I buy MacBook M1 Pro or M1 Max for softwar... by starwind on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @12:54PM (#30921481)

I have the 14inch M1 Pro MBP with 32gb of Ram and the 10-core CPU with the 16-core GPU and 500mb of storage and it's fantastic. I drive one 27in 4k 60hz monitor off the HDMI and it's great for everything except gaming.

Compile time is fast, I have no lag no matter how many apps I have open, I've heard the fans spin up twice and once I couldn't figure out why (maybe it's programmed to spin up every once-in-a-while just to clear dust)

Maybe I'll come to regret not buying more storage but I've never filled up a drive and I don't have any problems with external drives/dropbox

I think the M1 Max would be super overkill unless you want to drive a bunch of monitors

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Re:Ask HN: Should I buy MacBook M1 Pro or M1 Max for softwar... by sdflhasjd on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @02:14PM (#30922733)

> 500mb of storage

Apple are a really getting that stingy with the base models now? :p

What kind of development ecosystem do you use?

Having been bitten somewhat hard with the 32bit removal from Catalina, even though there's an emulation layer (which won't be around forever, I'd imagine), I am very cautious. Especially when quite a few of the tools I use can be fairly old at times.

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