Context:
I’ve been running in circles for weeks now, unable to decide on my next MBP.
Currently, I have a 14” M2 MBP and have absolutely no issues with it. I love how silent it operates and the battery life is perfect. Most of the time, I use it plugged in at my desk with two monitors.
I wouldn’t really have a reason to switch from my current machine, but upgrading to the M4 generation makes sense right now due to a couple of coincidences.
My General Use Case:
My day-to-day usage is mostly simple browsing, media consumption, writing, and scripting—often while commuting by train.
I also use Fusion360/FreeCAD to design simple things for 3D printing, and sometimes I model in Blender (mostly low poly)
The Weekend Warrior:
I already have a full plate with my daily job, but from time to time, I might spend some time experimenting with local LLMs (inference), playing around with graphics programming/game dev, or just some 'ol number crunching.
When it is needed, I use my desktop to offload everything to its discrete GPU.
tl;dr
For my regular usage, silent operation is paramount.
When I’m in full-on grind mode, I accept the noise.
The Problem:
My first idea was to get the M4 Pro 14" and gg, however, the possibility of maxing out on the RAM might offer interesting headroom for larger models. A 16" is out of the games.
I really don't want to got here, but I got fomo'ed by the loud crowd of (illiterate) influencers pretending to be tech reviewers.
Filtering out opinions from facts is challenging from comments/reddit.
My concern is the 14" unbinned M4 Max would run hot and loud even for my general use case or would ramp up and throttle at the first non -trivial load.
The Questions:
-> Is the unbinned 14” Max going to be too hot and loud on my general use case?
-> Are there any objective benchmarks/proper reviews out there? I haven’t found any for the 14".
Maybe this is the best I could find
(even though the benchmarks are synthetic and runs only for ~10 mins)
I’ve been running in circles for weeks now, unable to decide on my next MBP.
Currently, I have a 14” M2 MBP and have absolutely no issues with it. I love how silent it operates and the battery life is perfect. Most of the time, I use it plugged in at my desk with two monitors.
I wouldn’t really have a reason to switch from my current machine, but upgrading to the M4 generation makes sense right now due to a couple of coincidences.
My General Use Case:
My day-to-day usage is mostly simple browsing, media consumption, writing, and scripting—often while commuting by train.
I also use Fusion360/FreeCAD to design simple things for 3D printing, and sometimes I model in Blender (mostly low poly)
The Weekend Warrior:
I already have a full plate with my daily job, but from time to time, I might spend some time experimenting with local LLMs (inference), playing around with graphics programming/game dev, or just some 'ol number crunching.
When it is needed, I use my desktop to offload everything to its discrete GPU.
tl;dr
For my regular usage, silent operation is paramount.
When I’m in full-on grind mode, I accept the noise.
The Problem:
My first idea was to get the M4 Pro 14" and gg, however, the possibility of maxing out on the RAM might offer interesting headroom for larger models. A 16" is out of the games.
I really don't want to got here, but I got fomo'ed by the loud crowd of (illiterate) influencers pretending to be tech reviewers.
Filtering out opinions from facts is challenging from comments/reddit.
My concern is the 14" unbinned M4 Max would run hot and loud even for my general use case or would ramp up and throttle at the first non -trivial load.
The Questions:
-> Is the unbinned 14” Max going to be too hot and loud on my general use case?
-> Are there any objective benchmarks/proper reviews out there? I haven’t found any for the 14".
Maybe this is the best I could find
