After years with a 2015 MBP (13" and 15"), and a brief terrible time with the 2017 MBP nTB, I upgraded to a 14" MBP M1 Max with 24 GPU courses - widely reported as being the sweetspot, with more GPU cores diminishing value.
Sadly the machine had issues so it was returned to Apple. They won't replace it like-for-like as they don't officially sell the M1 Max any more. So it looks like it will have to be an M2 Max.
I'm sticking with a 14" as the 16" is just too big to lug around without hating it (for me).
Having read reviews, comments and watched videos I am aware of possible problems and disadvantages:
* M2 Max is too power hungry for a 14" chassis, leading to throttling - so value £/performance is reduced.
* M2 14" laptops have smaller heat dissipator than the 14" M1 laptops.
* Higher temperatures for the same tasks.
* quick to trigger fans.
And potential advantages:
* more efficiency cores should mean longer batter life, lower temps and reduced fans for the same workloads
The use of more efficiency cores SHOULD mean apple has rebalanced the design - but I'm not reading this in reviews.
Question 1 - what is YOUR own experience of this in reality? Not what the reviews say - what is your own actual experience?
My opinion at this point - it does seem like Apple had the thermal design sweetspot with the M1 Max-24 but for marketing reasons they have to "upgrade' and have pushed the M2 past the optimal spot.
Question 2 - Is there any way to get a 2021 14" M1 Max with 32GB RAM, 24-GPU cores, 2TB SSD in the UK that will still receive apple's full warranty?
Sadly the machine had issues so it was returned to Apple. They won't replace it like-for-like as they don't officially sell the M1 Max any more. So it looks like it will have to be an M2 Max.
I'm sticking with a 14" as the 16" is just too big to lug around without hating it (for me).
Having read reviews, comments and watched videos I am aware of possible problems and disadvantages:
* M2 Max is too power hungry for a 14" chassis, leading to throttling - so value £/performance is reduced.
* M2 14" laptops have smaller heat dissipator than the 14" M1 laptops.
* Higher temperatures for the same tasks.
* quick to trigger fans.
And potential advantages:
* more efficiency cores should mean longer batter life, lower temps and reduced fans for the same workloads
The use of more efficiency cores SHOULD mean apple has rebalanced the design - but I'm not reading this in reviews.
Question 1 - what is YOUR own experience of this in reality? Not what the reviews say - what is your own actual experience?
My opinion at this point - it does seem like Apple had the thermal design sweetspot with the M1 Max-24 but for marketing reasons they have to "upgrade' and have pushed the M2 past the optimal spot.
Question 2 - Is there any way to get a 2021 14" M1 Max with 32GB RAM, 24-GPU cores, 2TB SSD in the UK that will still receive apple's full warranty?