Wtf, Jan.. why would you waste your money on upgrading?? With your use case, your M1 MBP is more than fine.
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You are right, I slept over this and decided to just buy a new skin for my MacBook and keep it longer. Thanks for confirming my guy feeling today
Hi Jan. I think it depends, but for most programming workloads, the M1, M2, and M3 should be equally capable.
Some programming-related tasks can be performed far more quickly on the newer chips, but they are domain-specific. I’d expect stuff like:
- Driving concurrent local integration tests
- Executing local multithreaded builds or tooling on large code bases
- Running numerous virtualized processes
- Doing any kind of large-batch model training Etc etc
If you don’t need that kind of compute, I think the pro would be overkill.