Buy base Mac Pro M4 with 32GB or jump to M4 Pro?

[yagooliverce]

Hello

I want to buy my first macbook, and I decided to buy one of the m4 models. I would like an advice about which one could I get. I'm a software developer, I work mostly with .NET, reactJS, docker most of the time and some mobile development with react native, I'm also starting to make some stuffs for machine learning using python. I currently have an AMD 5600h with 32gb, no complainings so far, works perfectly, and I think m4 would give me much more performance that I currently have.

I was in doubt to get the base m4 with 24/512gb or 32gb/512gb but the price for this one is above my budget, but i'm considering the thing is, it's 60 euros less than the price of m4 pro with 24gb and 12 cores. What advice could you guys give me? For me the maximum budget I have is less than the m4 pro. What do you think? is 32gb more valuable than the extra cores of the m4 pro? or it worthy to get the 24gb and save some extra money as the performance is beyond what I have in the moment.

 

[andersonsil]

Maybe for your use case memory would worth more, in this case, you could go with either with 24/512 or 32/512 and save some extra bucks. I don't know if the extra cores will make a huge difference on your workload. M4 chip is a very capable chip, influencers are saying to go with m4 pro version for programming but they said the same with m3 pro and this m4 has better perfomance than the m3 pro, only loosing in GPU performance for a bit.

 

[Alameda]

Maybe for your use case memory would worth more, in this case, you could go with either with 24/512 or 32/512 and save some extra bucks. I don't know if the extra cores will make a huge difference on your workload. M4 chip is a very capable chip, influencers are saying to go with m4 pro version for programming but they said the same with m3 pro and this m4 has better perfomance than the m3 pro, only loosing in GPU performance for a bit.

I think you’re right. Docker containers gobble up a lot of RAM and if you use up all available memory, it doesn’t matter how fast your CPU’s runs, the system will be slow. It’s not possible to know how much memory is needed exactly but in this case, I agree with you and I’d choose memory over processor speed.

 

[Andrey84]

Hello

I want to buy my first macbook, and I decided to buy one of the m4 models. I would like an advice about which one could I get. I'm a software developer, I work mostly with .NET, reactJS, docker most of the time and some mobile development with react native, I'm also starting to make some stuffs for machine learning using python. I currently have an AMD 5600h with 32gb, no complainings so far, works perfectly, and I think m4 would give me much more performance that I currently have.

I was in doubt to get the base m4 with 24/512gb or 32gb/512gb but the price for this one is above my budget, but i'm considering the thing is, it's 60 euros less than the price of m4 pro with 24gb and 12 cores. What advice could you guys give me? For me the maximum budget I have is less than the m4 pro. What do you think? is 32gb more valuable than the extra cores of the m4 pro? or it worthy to get the 24gb and save some extra money as the performance is beyond what I have in the moment.

I agree with the other 2 commenters, memory is more important than cores for you. You should get at least 24GB.

I'm not about the 60 euro difference - is there a special deal going on?

On the UK Apple website it costs:
MacBook Pro, 14 inch, M4, 24GB = £1,800
MacBook Pro, 14 inch, M4 Pro, 24GB = £2,000

 

[yagooliverce]

Unfortunately, here in Belgium I don't see to much deals
the macbook Pro 14inch, M4, 24gb is 2159,00 € and 2389,00 € with 32gb.
While the m4 pro binned is 2449 the difference is almost almost 300 for 24gb version and 60 euros for the 32gb version.

 

[Zwhaler]

I would prioritize RAM over a processor core upgrade.

 

[shinkansenwarrior]

RAM is always KING.

 

[kschendel]

I'm not sure you'll see a huge jump over the 5600H in performance. If you want a Mac, yes. If you are looking for a jump in performance, then I suspect not so much. maybe 30% faster or so? If that's worth it, then fine. Don't be looking for a 2x or more performance improvement though.

 

[yagooliverce]

I'm not sure you'll see a huge jump over the 5600H in performance. If you want a Mac, yes. If you are looking for a jump in performance, then I suspect not so much. maybe 30% faster or so? If that's worth it, then fine. Don't be looking for a 2x or more performance improvement though.

I'm looking more for a portable laptop with a very good performance. My currently laptop with 5600h and RTX 3050 does the work but it's so heavy, so loud, and it has a terrible battery. I'm going to use the mac more as daily drive for development. I was worried with "future proofing" but I'm really thinking to get the 24gb/512 M4 instead of the m4 pro binned which is 300 euros more.