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The "I just ordered / bought / got my new/refurb MBP" thread [Merged]

My m1pro was wonderful....until it was suddenly not. I got into seriuous levels of photo editing with Affinity Photo, and Topaz. Both of these send my 16gb M1Pro in the high levels of yellow or in the red in memory pressure, along with serious amounts of memory swapping from the SSD. I discovered that the program will crash if it approaches 3x the actual RAM memory from swapping the SSD.

And so, I was going to wait but with the uncertain tariff policies, I bought a refurb M4max with 48 gb and 1 tb. I still need to not run anything else when I am running Topaz, but thats really not a problem since the other apps open instantly.
 
Too bad you can’t have it shipped from the USA. Right now, almost everything is available.
 
I've gone back and forth on the M4 MBP (standard display) v. M4 MBA v. M4 MBP Nano. After sitting with my back to a window today, I had to cave and go back to the Nano 14... I feel that the Nanotexture is more of a compelling feature than the 120Mhz.
 
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Finally upgraded my MBA from 2014 with a 14 inch MBP M4 Pro this past weekend.
With the MBA (4/128) getting kinda slow and hanging up on minor tasks, the uncertainty of the tariffs on electronic goods, and a good deal (48/1TB for 2k) made me upgrade. Hoping to get a good 5+ years out of the new one.
 
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fp99 said:
Finally upgraded my MBA from 2014 with a 14 inch MBP M4 Pro this past weekend.
With the MBA (4/128) getting kinda slow and hanging up on minor tasks, the uncertainty of the tariffs on electronic goods, and a good deal (48/1TB for 2k) made me upgrade. Hoping to get a good 5+ years out of the new one.
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Nice one. If your MBA lasted more than a decade, I’m sure this one will easily last over 5 years.
 
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fp99 said:
Finally upgraded my MBA from 2014 with a 14 inch MBP M4 Pro this past weekend.
With the MBA (4/128) getting kinda slow and hanging up on minor tasks, the uncertainty of the tariffs on electronic goods, and a good deal (48/1TB for 2k) made me upgrade. Hoping to get a good 5+ years out of the new one.
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That's kind of a huge jump... 4Mg to 48Mg??
 
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dizmonk said:
Why Intel? Didn't the first M1 MBA come out in 2020?
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steve217 said:
Probably just a timing situation.

The last intel 13" MBP came out in May 2020.

Apple Silicon wasn't announced until June of 2020.
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I bought my MBP before the Apple Silicon models launched, maybe in September. Also for some reason I’d missed that the M-series models were launching. In any case, I’m happy with the Intel Pro. I thought I might upgrade come M5 but at the rate this current one is running, I could probably go another 3 years or more at the very least.
 
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That's kind of a huge jump... 4Mg to 48Mg??
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Are you saying that I should have taken it slower and went to 8 or 16gb instead of 48gb? /s
lol.

I wasn't looking on getting this specific upgrade, was looking at the base mbp m4 pro with 24/512 (yes I still use the sdcard slot and i like having the extra ports) however from the base model to the 48/1tb upgrade was about a $400 difference. And in my case since I was fortune to have the funds available, I decided to get the extra ram/storage and over the course of it's lifetime (hopefully 5+ years - unless I drop/damage it sooner) the price difference is negligible.

That MBA was my first foray into the apple ecosystem. I picked it up on a whim when I had to travel out of country and work provided me with a Dell Latitude(?) (it was the silver laptop with the 15 inch screen, media buttons in the front and weighing probably 15lbs). I didn't want to travel with it and got the MBA for $750 at best buy and has been a great travel companion over the years. I recently (2 months ago) took it on a trip in which I was out of the country for 3 weeks and finally figured it was time to 'retire' it.
 
fp99 said:
Are you saying that I should have taken it slower and went to 8 or 16gb instead of 48gb? /s
lol.

I wasn't looking on getting this specific upgrade, was looking at the base mbp m4 pro with 24/512 (yes I still use the sdcard slot and i like having the extra ports) however from the base model to the 48/1tb upgrade was about a $400 difference. And in my case since I was fortune to have the funds available, I decided to get the extra ram/storage and over the course of it's lifetime (hopefully 5+ years - unless I drop/damage it sooner) the price difference is negligible.

That MBA was my first foray into the apple ecosystem. I picked it up on a whim when I had to travel out of country and work provided me with a Dell Latitude(?) (it was the silver laptop with the 15 inch screen, media buttons in the front and weighing probably 15lbs). I didn't want to travel with it and got the MBA for $750 at best buy and has been a great travel companion over the years. I recently (2 months ago) took it on a trip in which I was out of the country for 3 weeks and finally figured it was time to 'retire' it.
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I was just curious. I mean, I had a 4GB MBA way back when, and I've always upgraded to a 16gb/1tb configuration. From this board, it seems like the folks who get 48 GB are IT folks in some capacity. It wasn't meant as a criticism. Just curious.
 
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dizmonk said:
I was just curious. I mean, I had a 4GB MBA way back when, and I've always upgraded to a 16gb/1tb configuration. From this board, it seems like the folks who get 48 GB are IT folks in some capacity. It wasn't meant as a criticism. Just curious.
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Sorry if my joke sounded offensive. That was not the intention.
Yes indeed it's a big jump from 4gb to 48gb.

16gb might have been sufficient, but that option wasn't available on the MBP m4 pro. Since 16gb is the new norm now for apple and I figured 24gb isn't that much to far off, so I got the 48gb one. I can now keep even more apps and tabs open.

I am in the IT field (combo of secops/devops) and have been fortune enough to be able to use my mac for it.
I use the work vpn to connect to the systems I need to. I have 2 different profiles on my mac, one for work and one personal.
 
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