What Are the Reviews Saying?

[m1maverick]

Last night I stumbled across a couple of MBP review videos from Luke Miani and the initial results were interesting. I watched two of his reviews. The first was a comparison between the base model 13" and 14" MBPs. The 14" was handily the winner but a substantial margin in many of the benchmarks. The other was a comparison of a base model 16" versus a top of the line, except for SSD, 16" MBP. The base model was quite competitive in every benchmark except for those which made use of the GPU.

The conclusion I got from the videos is the base models are quite competitive and buying the higher configurations would require a specific use cases (at least when it comes to CPU / GPU configuration).

This is one bloggers reviews and they're preliminary (apparently he has purchased five of these in various configurations for a complete review). I was wondering if others have seen other reviews and what their conclusions have been. I'll be looking for others over the weekend but thought I would get the feedback of this hive.

 

[gpat]

My takeaway is that if you're wondering about how many CPU cores or RAM you could need... then you're fine with the base model.

Apple played quite fairly this time around, their ready configurations are actually OK without need for BTO options for most people.

They didn't pull any shenanigans like they usually do with iOS devices, which always miss out on the most convenient storage tier, or anything like that.

You can actually only concern yourself with screen and SSD size and most likely you'll be satisfied.

Youtubers earn money based on how many videos you'll watch before making up your mind, but not really needed in this case.

Overspeccing RAM or CPU for the sake of futureproofing isn't really that smart of a move. If you're concerned about protecting your investment, you should buy the base model and sell it after 1-2 years for a better machine.

In 2 years, the base model will probably stomp anything you can buy today and make any additional money spent worthless.
Just look at any Intel 15"/16" MBP with 64GB RAM... they now lose to $999 machines and have terrible resale value.

Everybody should choose according to what they actually need today.

 

[Pro Apple Silicon]

Reviews are dumb. I bought one. My review is the only one that counts.

 

[ultrakyo]

Key takeaway

1. m1 pro is not far behind m1 max for occasional heavy usage.

2. High power mode does not provide any tangible benefit, perhaps a TG Pro software on the 14 will do the same job.

3. Potential storage upgrade on empty SSD reserved space on the motherboard (if you can get the chip on free market)