Should I upgrade to m2pro or wait m3pro?

[dmccloud]

1. For internet purposes 7 would only be useful if you have much greater than gigabit internet speeds. I get 1.4 gb 6E speeds with 6E which is limited by my internet modem bandwidth.

2. Wifi 7 routers do exist but are quite expensive. Of the 4 listed on Best buy 2 are over $1K, the cheapest is $600. It may be years before prices become reasonable.

3. Apple is only now slowly running out 6E to its devices. Wifi 7 is years out.

4. WiFi 6 is more than most people need as I assume that relatively small proportion of internet users have speeds > 1 Gbs.

Didn't know that Wifi 7 routers were now available. Thanks.

One thing I have noticed with my M2 MBP - the WiFi 6E gets me almost as close to my max speeds (I have a 2Gbps plan) as ethernet does, even though my router is only a WiFi 6. I am considering upgrading it to a 6E model though, especially now that I'm almost done building my media server.

 

[TechnoMonk]

Contrary to popular belief, you don't need a M1 Pro/Max to do coding or even Photoshop. You can max it out with 24 GBs of DDR5 RAM and the Apple silicon is so powerful as it is already, it could surely meet the OP's job. In fact, I think the M1 Pro/Max models are overkill for school. But if money is not burning a hole in your pocket, they are more than welcome to spend it. When you take into account, a base model 13 in MBP is more powerful that high specced 2019 16 inch MacBook Pro, I don't see why can't meet their needs in 2023.

Meh. I run out of memory at times with 64 GB M1 Max running my code or upscaling idea to 4K on topaz video AI. Heck if I had listened to folks here, I would be buying new machine for lack of adequate RAM size.

 

[meady100]

True: you've probably already spent more time reading this thread than one chip will ever save you over the other!