I am upgrading my machine from the 2015 mbp. and really have had a hard time deciphering what I need/want.
My 2015 was bought for architecture school so I was modeling and rendering and doing heavy processes daily and eventually double partitioned the drive for windows too. Now that I only use it for my side work, like adobe creative suite LR, photoshop, video work and occasionally some 'for fun' modeling /games the existing mb I have is really too slow to do much...however its also very old.
I was planning to get the M2 16 in for a while but then when the M3 was released I decided it made sense to jet wait get that most current version. But With the introduction of the M3, M3 pro, and M3 Max it made it all the more confusing.
I still need pretty heavy power for using lightroom and photoshop on large hi-res files, but also I kinda feel like that base M3 max will be heavy at 4.8 lbs. I didn't really think about that at first.
I've read that the M3 pro is not as good as the M2pro and essentially got a downgrade but is it worth it to get the M3Max...maybe i'm just overshooting this way too much.
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If you paid over 100 dollars for it that's probably too much. however if it was rarely or not used often than it could be okay.
I have mine from 2015 and the fan runs basically constantly and needs to stay plugged in but i hardcore used it for almost since the day i bought it.
Just be aware that you can't update it anymore so there are going to be some challenges going forward with support from apps and other things...web browsing should be fine though.
If it's a great deal, should be fine, however anything with porcessing might be a challenge