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Decided to upgrade from my 2019 16" MBP i9 to a 14" M4 Pro with 48GB ram. Shipping estimated 18th of November.
I just couldn't stand the miserable experience that was developing on Xcode with an Intel MBP.
I truly expected my MBP to last longer however I'm getting choked by 16 GB of ram, the turbine noise and the heat coming out of this thing.
Exciting times ahead but my wallet is now 3 thousand euros lighter.
Spent a lot of time on the refurb store weighing the pros and cons however with the new improvements M4 introduces and the new pricing model for RAM, refurb store pricing no longer makes sense IMO.
Crossing fingers that I made the right decision on the chassis and that I'm not getting a surprise throttling issue, although it seems unlikely years into the M platform.
I just couldn't stand the miserable experience that was developing on Xcode with an Intel MBP.
I truly expected my MBP to last longer however I'm getting choked by 16 GB of ram, the turbine noise and the heat coming out of this thing.
Exciting times ahead but my wallet is now 3 thousand euros lighter.
Spent a lot of time on the refurb store weighing the pros and cons however with the new improvements M4 introduces and the new pricing model for RAM, refurb store pricing no longer makes sense IMO.
Crossing fingers that I made the right decision on the chassis and that I'm not getting a surprise throttling issue, although it seems unlikely years into the M platform.
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Order a Base M4/16/512 to upgrade my 13” MBP 2020 i5 2.0Ghz 16/512. Hoping to hear a lot less fan noise and speedier overall performance especially when connected to 2x 4K monitors
Hoping to see the price of an Apple Macbook Pro M3Max(12 performance cores), 64 gb ram, 1 TB drop in price at the Apple Refurb store. As of this moment they don’t have any. But at the moment, the 48 GB M4Pro is a deal for me. I won’t buy until I see the specs on performance with the two pieces of software that actually tax my 2021 M1Pro.
Latest Luke Miani video suggests that M4 Pro actually beats M3 Max in multi-core performance (he did the calculations based on the leaked M4 Benchmark and Apple's slideshow multipliers). I was waiting for the exact same model to hit refurb store but said screw it and ordered instead.
M4 Pro 48GB I think gives the best value I agree
After switching to iphone for the first time with iphone 16, I just pre-ordered my first ever macbook!
Went with 16" MBP M4 Max 40-Core GPU 64GB with nano-texture display.
I hated the Intel MBP 2019 my company gave me. It was loud, slow, and always overheating. Then switched to company M1 and everything was perfect. I just hope Apple will continue to invest in game compatibility.
Went with 16" MBP M4 Max 40-Core GPU 64GB with nano-texture display.
I hated the Intel MBP 2019 my company gave me. It was loud, slow, and always overheating. Then switched to company M1 and everything was perfect. I just hope Apple will continue to invest in game compatibility.
You made a great choice. I hated the 2019 mbp with passion. Even upgrading to company M1 was enough to get rid of overheating for me.
Yah I was suffering long enough with insufficient hardware, plus software support for these machines was falling behind rapidly, thus the reason for the huge leap.
November 19th after checkout, but it said November 8th while customizing it. I’m hoping the date will change and it ships sooner than later but I can be patient.
Ordered mine. 14' M4 Max nano texture, 128GB, 4TB. Showed delivery 11/8 but email states 11/19. Leaving the country on 11/14 and would love the new portable. I am really hoping it delivers before my trip.
This will be my first ever MacBook Pro (or, indeed, any kind of Mac that wasn’t gifted to me). Prior to yesterday, I thought I might be getting the base M4 MBP (which I thought might see a price rise).
Then I began pondering upping the RAM to 16GB (which it went to for free anyway) and the 1TB SSD. So I gave myself an upper price limit of £2K.
When comparing, I saw that the base M4 Pro MPB hit that limit (albeit with 512GB SSD). That would have been my choice, but then I saw the nano-texture option and began pontificating - trying to find out what it was, if I needed it, and if I was prepared to pay the £150 extra for it.
I couldn’t find anything definitive one way or the other to sway my decision but, by then, I’d accepted that I might have been paying £150 over my limit anyway.
So I plumped for the base M4 Pro MPB with SSD bumped to 1TB instead.
It’s probably wayyy too much laptop for my humble purposes these days, but it’s probably the last “major spend” I’ll ever make and it should see me a good few years down the line before it shows its age.
It made me think that all of my major laptop purchases have been in this price bracket. Several years back it was a Surface Pro 6 with accessories and about 25 years back it was a Dell Inspiron 7500 (which I still have). All have been around £2K. Odd.
Delivery date is shown as 11th. The base model originally showed the 8th but it changed to 11th at some point during my selection changes.
Then I began pondering upping the RAM to 16GB (which it went to for free anyway) and the 1TB SSD. So I gave myself an upper price limit of £2K.
When comparing, I saw that the base M4 Pro MPB hit that limit (albeit with 512GB SSD). That would have been my choice, but then I saw the nano-texture option and began pontificating - trying to find out what it was, if I needed it, and if I was prepared to pay the £150 extra for it.
I couldn’t find anything definitive one way or the other to sway my decision but, by then, I’d accepted that I might have been paying £150 over my limit anyway.
So I plumped for the base M4 Pro MPB with SSD bumped to 1TB instead.
It’s probably wayyy too much laptop for my humble purposes these days, but it’s probably the last “major spend” I’ll ever make and it should see me a good few years down the line before it shows its age.
It made me think that all of my major laptop purchases have been in this price bracket. Several years back it was a Surface Pro 6 with accessories and about 25 years back it was a Dell Inspiron 7500 (which I still have). All have been around £2K. Odd.
Delivery date is shown as 11th. The base model originally showed the 8th but it changed to 11th at some point during my selection changes.
Ordered 16" Nano M4 Pro with 48GB & a 2 TB drive. Would have preferred 64 TB and 1 TB, but it required a Max and the price would have been 30% more, so for my needs it'll be fine.
Strange thing is that I received a 10% off pre 2023 Xmas retail store discounts, which Apple matched, a discount for a 16" M3 Pro Max with the smaller core count, a 1 TB 36GB RAM 1 TB 14C/30C Max (the lesser core counts) for almost the same cost as this purchase which is full retail. What a strange feeling to imagine that Apple have a good value 16" that I can live with!
I returned the M3 Pro Max because I realised I could not live longer term with 1 TB. However with thunderbolt 5, 1 TB doesn't scare me much. I saw a fairly cheap NVME Thunderbolt 5 NVME external case - in the USA $128.
But that M3 Pro Max unit did not have the Nano screen either. So with this 2 TB/48 GB Nano - even at full retail rather than 10% off - it actually feels good value to me. I suspect for most of what I do the M4 Pro will be faster than the reduced core M3 Pro Max.
Apple said 5 to 10 business days delivery, or pick up from an Apple store in 3 weeks. I chose the store because I was concerned about theft and dropping etc. I also get more time to change my mind! I think our local pricing includes a beneficial error - I am wondering whether it will be picked and and the price will go up.
Strange thing is that I received a 10% off pre 2023 Xmas retail store discounts, which Apple matched, a discount for a 16" M3 Pro Max with the smaller core count, a 1 TB 36GB RAM 1 TB 14C/30C Max (the lesser core counts) for almost the same cost as this purchase which is full retail. What a strange feeling to imagine that Apple have a good value 16" that I can live with!
I returned the M3 Pro Max because I realised I could not live longer term with 1 TB. However with thunderbolt 5, 1 TB doesn't scare me much. I saw a fairly cheap NVME Thunderbolt 5 NVME external case - in the USA $128.
But that M3 Pro Max unit did not have the Nano screen either. So with this 2 TB/48 GB Nano - even at full retail rather than 10% off - it actually feels good value to me. I suspect for most of what I do the M4 Pro will be faster than the reduced core M3 Pro Max.
Apple said 5 to 10 business days delivery, or pick up from an Apple store in 3 weeks. I chose the store because I was concerned about theft and dropping etc. I also get more time to change my mind! I think our local pricing includes a beneficial error - I am wondering whether it will be picked and and the price will go up.
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Ordered a 16”, mine is processing with estimate delivery on same interval as yours. I think we will get it on launch day
Weirdly, if I go on and configure my exact order again on the store, it states a definitive 11th (Monday) delivery.Ordered a 16”, mine is processing with estimate delivery on same interval as yours. I think we will get it on launch day
I was charged just now, but it still says processing 🥲 I guess it’s gonna be ready to ship anytime soon
Exactly 7 years ago, in November, I’m ordered a few MacBooks 12”. One base model, and one maxed out for all options. They still in use, but they aged. Batteries is almost dead. I have defective one in first months of use, won’t service it in time – but it still works.
Intel mobile chips were designed for netbooks and low power devices. But I do a lot of work on that little gems.
That machines work for any bucks, any cents. They take me more than what they was designed for. Basic ML loads for learning, a lot of coding thou thousands of lines of code which brings to life one of the impressive p2p money transferring services in the world. (Sadly it was shuttered down in February, due to one situation in the world).
Today I ordered a two MBP14, one basic M4 with Nano, for office work and gaming, and one M4 Pro with Nano for a massive ML workloads, coding and RAW 12bit Cinema DNG video editing.
Intel mobile chips were designed for netbooks and low power devices. But I do a lot of work on that little gems.
That machines work for any bucks, any cents. They take me more than what they was designed for. Basic ML loads for learning, a lot of coding thou thousands of lines of code which brings to life one of the impressive p2p money transferring services in the world. (Sadly it was shuttered down in February, due to one situation in the world).
Today I ordered a two MBP14, one basic M4 with Nano, for office work and gaming, and one M4 Pro with Nano for a massive ML workloads, coding and RAW 12bit Cinema DNG video editing.
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Pre-ordered the 14-inch MacBook Pro with the base M4, 24GB of RAM, and a 1TB drive.
As much as I love the thought of the M4 Pro, I realized that my use cases (Photoshop, Slack, and a ton of browser tabs) are more dependent on RAM than CPU power. I'd rather roll the money into the external monitor I also need since I'm replacing a 27-inch iMac from 2019.
One thing's for sure: this will be miles faster than that iMac. Geekbench 6 says my current machine's spec (3.7GHz Core i5, 8GB of RAM) gets 1,375 single-core and 5,166 multi-core. The early base M4 results I've seen suggest my MacBook Pro will be about three times faster in both categories, and of course real-world use should be much better between that and three times the memory.
As much as I love the thought of the M4 Pro, I realized that my use cases (Photoshop, Slack, and a ton of browser tabs) are more dependent on RAM than CPU power. I'd rather roll the money into the external monitor I also need since I'm replacing a 27-inch iMac from 2019.
One thing's for sure: this will be miles faster than that iMac. Geekbench 6 says my current machine's spec (3.7GHz Core i5, 8GB of RAM) gets 1,375 single-core and 5,166 multi-core. The early base M4 results I've seen suggest my MacBook Pro will be about three times faster in both categories, and of course real-world use should be much better between that and three times the memory.
Mine just shipped (4.30pm ET 11/1) and still maintains the 11/8 arrival. Store pickup. 14" M4 Max 16-40/64GB/2TB/nano
Im kinda jealous that some of you are preordering the M4 MBPs but having had the M1 Pro. M2 Max and now the M3 Max, the M4 Max will feel identical pretty much.
Im looking forward to ordering the M5 Max next year with hopefully a redesign and tracking our flights etc.
I not sure how I feel about oled screen yet if it does get a screen upgrade.
Im looking forward to ordering the M5 Max next year with hopefully a redesign and tracking our flights etc.
I not sure how I feel about oled screen yet if it does get a screen upgrade.
Ordered a 16” M4 Max 16/40 128GB. It is probably overkill for my usual workflow as a software engineer but I don’t mind the extra cost. I like to experiment with various local LLMs for code completion while using the 3.5 Sonnet API with Cline for multi file editing. Curious to see if it is fast enough for code completion with 30B+ parameter models.
Delivers November 22-27 to Canada. Trading in my 14” M1 Pro 8/14 16GB.
Delivers November 22-27 to Canada. Trading in my 14” M1 Pro 8/14 16GB.
A refurb 14" M3 would cost you more in that specification!
I reckon the extra $250 for an extra 8 GB RAM would have had you thinking over and over ... and while the upgrade to 1 TB cost the same amount, and despite Thunderbolt 5 - 1 TB will keep it going for a lot longer. IMO the $250 for 8 GB extra is worth it too but in percentage terms for the cost of the whole machine, $250 for 8 GB seems a lot more. But some RAM ie 16 GB of Spectrum D50 5000 MHz Ram retails for $759 or $US375 for an 8 GB sim but can be bought for $560 on specials).But that is still under what Apple is asking ... People say the AI component will take 8 GB - who knows, maybe more as time goes forward - so if its not switched off, then its really 16 GB of RAM. If Apple one day make it a permanent part of the OS, then suddenly us users may find we don't have enough RAM, and our Macs will virtualise and suddenly slow down a lot? Just suggesting to think hard about the extra bit of RAM!
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