I have been reading everyone’s threads, watching various reviews. i love tech, i sadly however am technologically challenged lol
i work in nutritional sciences by trade, much of my day is dealing with Nutrition design (spreadsheets, docs etc) browsing the web, research papers, and general day to day running of my company. And live-streaming here and there.
I am just starting in music as a hobby so will be playing with DAW, Probably Logic Pro - emphasis on newbie, just to support my guitar journey.
Myself and the lady are hobby photographers and play around with video as well, FCP will be the editing software. The videos are mainly for my social media content, so very basic needs at this stage.
I am itching to jump on the M1 train, GAS i know sue me lol, i am quite happy to grab the base MBA with 8GB ram.
I do not think 16gb will benefit me much now, i will update again as soon as the higher spec ones get released. So future proofing isn’t a necessary reality for me past the next 2 years max, and the 6 week wait for a custom machine in my country, I don’t have that patience.
My current work/private life consists of :
16” MacBook Pro base i7 16gb 512 machine that drives my office : (purchased February 2020 just before hard lockdown)
Dell 3818 monitor
Focusrite 2i2 audio
couple external drives only 1-2 hooked up at any time.
it does everything i want, main complaint is the fan noise, no matter what i am doing or working on. To date, it has never left my office or been out of clamshell mode. I would opt for the new mac mini, but i do need to travel occasionally , and the iPad doesn’t quite do everything i need on the road.
Otherwise i have a IPad Pro 12.9 2020 with MKB, which i am on much of the time, which floats around the house with me.
The idea is to purchase the MBA, test it, make sure all my software works and sell my 16” which should recoup me the cost of the MBA and probably leave me with 700-1000 dollars in the bank. Which i can use later when the new top spec machines get released.
Really scared of them releasing a top spec 16 and mine is rendered worthless on the second hand market, well certainly for what i can get now for it privately.
The only “upgrade” i would do is take the 512gb version and not the 256gb, although i use the cloud a lot, I remember the nightmare that was my 128gb 13” MacBook in 2017.
This isn’t an affordability issue for me.
Rather am i just throwing money away? when all my bases are covered already, i think i am struggling with this decision the most and secondly whether 256 or 512gb is enough, lastly do i need more ports, but cant think so At this stage.
i work in nutritional sciences by trade, much of my day is dealing with Nutrition design (spreadsheets, docs etc) browsing the web, research papers, and general day to day running of my company. And live-streaming here and there.
I am just starting in music as a hobby so will be playing with DAW, Probably Logic Pro - emphasis on newbie, just to support my guitar journey.
Myself and the lady are hobby photographers and play around with video as well, FCP will be the editing software. The videos are mainly for my social media content, so very basic needs at this stage.
I am itching to jump on the M1 train, GAS i know sue me lol, i am quite happy to grab the base MBA with 8GB ram.
I do not think 16gb will benefit me much now, i will update again as soon as the higher spec ones get released. So future proofing isn’t a necessary reality for me past the next 2 years max, and the 6 week wait for a custom machine in my country, I don’t have that patience.
My current work/private life consists of :
16” MacBook Pro base i7 16gb 512 machine that drives my office : (purchased February 2020 just before hard lockdown)
Dell 3818 monitor
Focusrite 2i2 audio
couple external drives only 1-2 hooked up at any time.
it does everything i want, main complaint is the fan noise, no matter what i am doing or working on. To date, it has never left my office or been out of clamshell mode. I would opt for the new mac mini, but i do need to travel occasionally , and the iPad doesn’t quite do everything i need on the road.
Otherwise i have a IPad Pro 12.9 2020 with MKB, which i am on much of the time, which floats around the house with me.
The idea is to purchase the MBA, test it, make sure all my software works and sell my 16” which should recoup me the cost of the MBA and probably leave me with 700-1000 dollars in the bank. Which i can use later when the new top spec machines get released.
Really scared of them releasing a top spec 16 and mine is rendered worthless on the second hand market, well certainly for what i can get now for it privately.
The only “upgrade” i would do is take the 512gb version and not the 256gb, although i use the cloud a lot, I remember the nightmare that was my 128gb 13” MacBook in 2017.
This isn’t an affordability issue for me.
Rather am i just throwing money away? when all my bases are covered already, i think i am struggling with this decision the most and secondly whether 256 or 512gb is enough, lastly do i need more ports, but cant think so At this stage.
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