Macbook for personal use
Hello everyone I am planning to buy a MacBook for my personal use budget is ~1L. I have a few options: 1: Macbook pro 2019 i7 16/512 ~ 45-50k (refurbished) 2: Macbook air M1 16/255 ~1.2L (over budget) Will the 2019 i7 macbook pros survive for the next 3-4 years? Or should I increase my budget and go for m1/m2?
If you won't mind portability and If you have a monitor, you can consider mac mini, . I am also looking to buy mac mini
I would not recommend you to go for Intel based macs. They heatup a lot and battery life is crap. Only go for one of you can find in 10-20k. I got one in 10k where the screen was a little dim on one corner and one of the key was not working properly.
Do not choose the Intel Macs at all unless it's necessary for your workflow. You'd be so much much better off getting an M series Mac
spacecowboy
Stealth
7 months ago
Stretch your budget a bit and go for an Apple Silicon one. It’s future proof
MacBook pro 2019 16 heats up a lot, it's a known problem. I've been using from work (i9) since 3 years. And it underperforms even compared to air that you mentioned. See if you get air refurbished somewhere it's already 3 years old
Additional, probably primary question. what are you buying it for? coding,video editing, etc?
Also student or working professional?
You can also go for the small 13 inch models in m1, quite handy and portable
For personal software development. I usually work on java backend with docker, kubernetes and other services running in local. Need atleast 16gb ram
I am using a 2020 i5 Intel MBP Pro, RAM: 16 GB, it heats up a lot, battery life is crap and is slow after I run a couple of containers, I recently bought a M2 MacBook Air with 8GB memory and that works better than my Intel MBP
Check if you can get the MBP M1 edition. That’s a really good machine and has good battery backup. Have been using since 2021. Not much for coding, but mostly for heavy media editing.
There is one more option. If you know any students from your family and friends. Best to get through them. Apple offers student discount through Unidays. The discount is around 10%. Just got it checked from my cousin. It’s showing 107900 for MBA M1 16/256.
Better to stay away from Intel ones. They are power hungry plus performance lower than M1 machines.
LokiPen
Stealth
7 months ago
Intel based MacBooks are known for their heating issues and poor battery life.
I would suggest you to increase your budget to get an apple silicon based macbook.
And I would also suggest going for a Pro version with minimum 16 gigs of RAM rather than going with the normal version.
spacecowboy
Stealth
7 months ago
I had gotten M2 Air 16/256 at around ~1.15 lakh with the help of student discount. One of the best purchases of my life
Been using 16gb Air M1 for 2 years. No heating issues. No lagging or slowing down. I’ll wholeheartedly recommend it.
What is your usecase?
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