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Need a new work laptop. 14/16" M1 now or wait for a possible M2 update? - gadje - 09-13-2022
They offered me a 14 or 16" MacBook Pro now, which is an M1 CPU.
I could wait a few weeks/months to see if Apple will update the MacBook Pro to an M2 chip. But then I still have to wait until our IT runs out of M1 machines, which they still have in stock. They usually keep around 20-40 new machines in stock at all times. I expect that may take a few weeks to run though so perhaps I won't see an M2 in our stock at work until 2023.
Re: Need a new work laptop. 14/16" M1 now or wait for a possible M2 update? - August West - 09-14-2022
Get a 16 M1 Max
Re: Need a new work laptop. 14/16" M1 now or wait for a possible M2 update? - mattkime - 09-14-2022
What do you use the machine for? Do you spend much time waiting for tasks to complete? Then you might consider waiting. Otherwise you might as well grab the M1.
Re: Need a new work laptop. 14/16" M1 now or wait for a possible M2 update? - clay - 09-14-2022
at this point I'd probably wait, unless you need a machine today. If they follow the general pattern of the past several years, I expect the Mac event for the fall sometime in October, new machines shipping in November.
Re: Need a new work laptop. 14/16" M1 now or wait for a possible M2 update? - gadje - 09-14-2022
most of my real work is done on company servers servers or in the cloud (AWS, Github, etc).
I rarely wait for tasks to complete. The machine is just a a terminal, but I also use it for word processing, email, multimedia consumption, etc. I do not use photoshop nor do I encode any movies.
Re: Need a new work laptop. 14/16" M1 now or wait for a possible M2 update? - mattkime - 09-14-2022
Then it hardly matters. Sounds like your current machine is plenty fast.
Re: Need a new work laptop. 14/16" M1 now or wait for a possible M2 update? - gadje - 09-14-2022
mattkime wrote:
Then it hardly matters. Sounds like your current machine is plenty fast.
yes, but I am overdue for an update (policy allows every 2 years) and I would like a new machine
Re: Need a new work laptop. 14/16" M1 now or wait for a possible M2 update? - mattkime - 09-14-2022
I'm due for a refresh in a month or two. I'm regularly reevaluating but I'm optimistic that I'll get a 16" M2 series MacBook Pro. But I spend a lot of time watching javascript compile.
Re: Need a new work laptop. 14/16" M1 now or wait for a possible M2 update? - anonymouse1 - 09-14-2022
If you need to move it around, get the 14. If it’s a desktop laptop, get the 16. Unlikely to see much gain in the M2.