https://www.reddit.com/r/AITechReport/comments/1dyg3zo/2023_macbook_pro_review_unleashing_the_power_of/

Get m3 it’s a long term investment so for saving just 100$ don’t go for m2

I suggest the m3 air 16gb ram. Thats what i just got as my first mac ever and love it. Plan to do coding or CS/IT/maybe go back to school. Im glad i spent the extra instead of the 8gb base. When you do the math its definitely worth it to know it will do everything you need and last a long time, dat peace of mind. Also resale value

Slight difference. I added a video below to help you choose:

https://youtu.be/geqPPsGCAfU?si=xdCqx86HyZfXIUC8

Either of them will be more than enough.

Instead of paying more for a slightly better chip, use that money for something that is really worth to upgrade: RAM

So you should get the M2 16GB model

Coming from a 2016 Intel, those M2 models will both be like going from a Camry to a Ferrari, will you really care if it’s the slightly faster Ferrari?

Even the M1 Pro models are really excellent and easy to still recommend, so if you can find one of those for several hundred cheaper than the comparable M2, go for it.

There is no performance difference between 14 and 16, just the screen and battery size, so that’s a personal decision for you if the extra size, weight, and cost is worth the extra screen size when you’re portable.

I have a 2022 14" 16/512 GB; using it to write this. Great machine.

But programming is mostly editing text files - any M-chip MacBook will do fantastic at that. Screen size is a matter of personal taste and your vision, so it's hard to make an objective trade off. That said, the physical dimensions and weight can make a big difference in portability. My 14" Pro is only a little bigger than my wife's 13" M1 Air, but the 14" is noticeably heavier, which makes it a little less handy to carry around.

I was surprised to discover that port made a difference to me - my 14" has 3 USB, MagSafe power, HDMI, and memory card ports compared to just 2 USB on wife's Air. In some situations that matters & I am happy to have more because that means I don't need some dongles.

Sounds like for your use, with maybe a lot of applications open, 16GB of RAM, or more would be important. You are smart to look at higher RAM configurations

What course u studying

Not that those same people would read this, but the interesting bit to me is that it dispels any notion of Unified Memory being magically faster or lower latency, because it is after all regular LPDDR, just wired closer to the package (but not on-chip, again a common misconception I still see). In fact, once you spill out of the caches, which yes are pretty good, the main memory latency isn't impressive at all vs AMD or other IGPs

After spilling out of the L2 cache, M2 Pro’s iGPU accesses a system-level cache with a 234 ns latency. DRAM access takes more than 342 ns at the 128 MB test size. Going further sends latency beyond 400 ns, perhaps due to TLB misses. M2 Pro thus has higher DRAM access latency than AMD’s Phoenix, which has similar memory access latency to recent discrete GPUs.

Yo you are the Chips and Cheese guy?

Can you test Qualcomm's Adreno GPU architecture please.

https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/17ktuom/comment/k7dlqjt/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Keen to see the follow up whenever they get their hands on the M3 GPUs, as we should be expecting some increase in L1 capacity to service the raytracing hardware.

A question for anyone more familiar with GPU architecture: what limits the latency on the scratchpad memory?

7950X: DDR5-6000, CL32 iirc. Not my system, was set up by Titanic

Phoenix: DDR5-5600 CL46. Again not my system. That's Cheese's laptop.

Zen 4 desktop uses a LGA socket. Phoenix uses BGA. They cannot be the same system.

If you need to code algorithms using metal performance compute shaders OK, otherwise put that money in RAM or storage.

As far i know there is no cryptography tool available yet enable for metal GPGPU API.

How can we know if we don’t know your use case?

Really, it’s all psychological when it comes to these kind of questions. No definitive answer can be provided. But the biggest factor is how much disposable income do you have? A lot? Then get the extra features so you can feel like a bad ass. Are you having trouble paying the rent? Don’t get the extra features. Are you somewhere in between? Only you can decide what will make you happier.

My advice is to get the hardware that you need for your software. I made the mistake of buying an m1 macbook pro for just basic office work.

For me, the main upgrade I noticed in the m2 pro was the Wi-Fi 6e. If you have a new wife 6e mesh network, the speeds on the m2 MacBooks are almost double what the m1 MacBook with wifi 6 could pull.

I am hoping for a consumer quantum pc sometime soon 

Because I want to factor an integer in polynomial time, duh.

Quantum PC at home? Sign me up! Finally, a new excuse for slow Wi-Fi.

Can it run crysis?

Because it would be cool simple

So he could or couldn't ask this question at the same time

Full video: https://youtu.be/Wt1hHHJS6Ko Whitepaper: https://d-wave-systems-inc-website.euwest01.umbraco.io/media/wakjcpsf/adv2_4400q_whitepaper-1.pdf

I posted Notebookcheck’s review of the M2 MBP on the day the embargo was lifted, but it was apparently silently removed (or… something). Post didn’t get a single upvote in 24 hours so I ended up deleting it. So that was… weird. But anyway, check it out, they do a very, very thorough job.

Dave2D

Just wait until LTT or MacAddress releases a video

It took LTT 3 months to do a proper thorough review of the mac Studio. This shit takes time at least a few weeks and anything you see before then you should treat as rushed and potentially inaccurate.

It’s been out less than a day, just chill. They’ll arrive eventually.

And so it begins.....Happy Hunting!