Apple MBP 16 48 GB vs 14 64 GB, which should i buy , I am little confused

[devwarrior]

Hello

Planning to buy a new MBP, my main usage is Xcode, ML development and 4k or 5k video editing. I am confused, should I go with 48 GB MBP 16 or bump up the memory 64 GB with 14 MBP? Any advice?

 

[padams35]

If you generally work docked to external monitors you might as well go for the higher performing more portable 14”. Otherwise if you typically work only on the laptop display treat yourself to the bigger 16”. Screen real estate helps, and 64GB is probably overkill anyway.

 

[Basic75]

64GB is probably overkill anyway

That'll depend greatly on the size of the ML models he uses during development. It might be overkill, it might be not enough.

 

[devwarrior]

If you generally work docked to external monitors you might as well go for the higher performing more portable 14”. Otherwise if you typically work only on the laptop display treat yourself to the bigger 16”. Screen real estate helps, and 64GB is probably overkill anyway.

Thank you for the feedback

 

[devwarrior]

That'll depend greatly on the size of the ML models he uses during development. It might be overkill, it might be not enough.

ML models will be small as far as I know I don’t think it will be really large

 

[theluggage]

Planning to buy a new MBP, my main usage is Xcode, ML development and 4k or 5k video editing. I am confused, should I go with 48 GB MBP 16 or bump up the memory 64 GB with 14 MBP? Any advice?

You need to find people with specific experience of the software/libraries you want to use, and give them far more detail about what you want to do. The cheapest Mac can "do" Xcode, ML and 4k video editing if you're talking about light use, but your specific work may need far more CPU power and RAM than that.

This, unfortunately, is where Apple make things difficult with their non-expandable RAM and super-expensive options.