M2 Pro (10core) vs M1 pro(10 core) vs M3

[mcqueen030609]

Hello Everyone

I am planning on buying my first ever macbook.

I am currently hesistating between 3 options.

MBA 15 m3 16gb 512gb. - £1364
MBP 14 m2 pro(10core) 16gb 512gb - £ 1330
MBP 14 M1 Pro (10 core) 16gb 1TB -£1185

I am a uni student who is planning to use on some programming, every day browse, Netflix, some League of legends.
I was originally planning to go for the m3 air 15 inch but it seemed the pro on the previous generations had a better price and i like hdmi ports on Pro so much as well.

What would you guys do in the given options above? I am leaning towards m1 pro because of the better sound speakers than M2 Pro and not a big performance difference ( i wouldn't realize especially). However some ppl told me the m1 pro laptop will have less MAC OS support than m2 pro. Idk if the os support makes a big impact on the performance of the laptop.

Please let me know your opinions.

 

[kevcube]

If you either: don't often need HDMI, OR are comfortable carrying a dongle, MBA 15 M3 for sure.

I use the laptop for tons of different dev work and it is certainly powerful and efficient for anything you'd want to do. On the plus side, it won't run League well, (I don't know if any of these machines will), so you'll have more time to focus on your studies)