Do You Like This MacBook Pro?

[Christopher11]

How long before apple drops support?
How noisy will this be at full load?
and it would come with Zero warranty.

If you need to save a few $$$ buy refurbished from apple, they are basically new devices and come with full apple warranty, along with option to add apple care within 15 days of purchase, I ordered a Studio Display VESA mount from there and couldnt be happier.

So better to buy from Apple. Better machine, more security. Like this one? The price is getting pretty close to a new one. I would have to find the one with HD space and RAM I'm looking for. https://www.apple.com/shop/product/...7656a0401c44c6871955d808130d13eb29680018e1771

 

[Allen_Wentz]

absolutely buy either new or refurbished from apple instead of an older intel machine.

Do you really need 4 TB of onboard storage? Buy an external thunderbolt drive for storage, don't pay Apple for those ridiculous storage prices.

Also what's your use case? Do you really need 64GB of RAM? (again apple's pricing here is ridiculous and this option is also gated to the M3 Max chip which makes things eve more expensive) a 16 inch with M3 Pro and 36 GB of RAM is going to be much cheaper and will run circles around any Intel machine. (unless you really just need that much RAM)

The proper question is not Do you really need 64GB of RAM? but rather Will the processor make good use of 64 GB RAM during the later years of the intended life cycle of the box, and the answer probably is yes.