So I currently have a 2016 MBP that has served me well but it is overdue for an upgrade. I am looking at a 14 in MBP with M2 chip and am having conflicting research about the right choice of upgrades. I also plan to buy refurbished to save some cash.
I'm a college student so need a machine that can perform basic office tasks. I also like using photoshop, illustrator, blender, and occasionally some light games as a hobby and need hardware that isn't going to give me any issues for a while. I also want to be able to support a monitor while doing these tasks without any lagging issues.
It doesn't seem like I need the 12/19 gpu/cpu upgrade from the 10/16, research is showing me the extra cores aren't really going to be utilized. I also just plan on getting the 512 gb SSD, I'm fine with hard drives and cloud storage and think the 1tb upgrade with faster speeds isn't particularly useful for me. I think I'm going to upgrade RAM though, from 16gb to 32gb to cover me for blender and also just improve speeds. I'm wondering if upgrading the RAM is going to be worth it without upgrading the cpu/gpu. Would 10/16/32 gpu/cpu/ram make sense to purchase for me? Do I need to upgrade cpu/gpu, it seems like the horsepower of the base version is plenty. I just don't want to spend extra on a model that's not even going to have bottlenecking and not even be worth the upgrades.
Thank you!
I'm a college student so need a machine that can perform basic office tasks. I also like using photoshop, illustrator, blender, and occasionally some light games as a hobby and need hardware that isn't going to give me any issues for a while. I also want to be able to support a monitor while doing these tasks without any lagging issues.
It doesn't seem like I need the 12/19 gpu/cpu upgrade from the 10/16, research is showing me the extra cores aren't really going to be utilized. I also just plan on getting the 512 gb SSD, I'm fine with hard drives and cloud storage and think the 1tb upgrade with faster speeds isn't particularly useful for me. I think I'm going to upgrade RAM though, from 16gb to 32gb to cover me for blender and also just improve speeds. I'm wondering if upgrading the RAM is going to be worth it without upgrading the cpu/gpu. Would 10/16/32 gpu/cpu/ram make sense to purchase for me? Do I need to upgrade cpu/gpu, it seems like the horsepower of the base version is plenty. I just don't want to spend extra on a model that's not even going to have bottlenecking and not even be worth the upgrades.
Thank you!
