I need a new laptop, my 2017 base intel MacBook Pro that got me through the last bit of high school and college is on its last legs Thinking about getting a M2 MBP, not sure yet I don’t have fancy TC for the newest fancy MBP and I don’t do anything crazy on it, I just need something to leetcode, random browser shit, and emails. What do you run? 103K Update: bought the new M3 Air
A lot of people overlook that the screen is a bit better on the Pro
Leetcode performance will be same on both
M2 pro is good
Why do u need new laptop for leetcode, browser and little work. U already have one, just clean it up, if u have a hdd replace it with sd and u will see the different, cost 100 instead of 1000
Nope. Most laptops come with Win Home. Just getting Pro to match the Mac is $100. Then turn off most stuff using O&O shut up to tamp down the random stuff Windows does to slow things down. At that point you’re left with an old laptop that has slower components and a battery that doesn’t last as long. Even if you value your time at $0, why bother?
M2 Air is good for portability and if you don't need the workstation needs of m2 Pro, stay away from 8GB due to swap issues when running even multiple tabs on Safari and another app, get 256G and an external HDD for less-used documents and files rather than paying the apple tax for 512G.
Copped an M1 Pro MBP 16/512 for 1500€ almost a year ago. Not too bad. Wonderful machine.
Bought an Air for my kids. If it’s for myself, it will be a Pro.
M2 Air is as good as M1pro. Surprisingly good. Unless you're doing some deep learning don't need pro at all.
Except the screen size, quality, and external displays
I've had an m1 air with 8gb RAM for years. I don't plan on upgrading any time soon Phenomenal battery life, even when doing tasks like leet coding, streaming YouTube in background tab, running xcode simulator with metro dev server
Meh, just get an M1 air, these things last forever. I highly doubt you’ll need more than one external monitor + the MacBook screen for leetcode and interviewing. FWIW I got an M2 Mac mini for 500 bucks (on a deal) coz I wanted something to slot in directly with my wfh setup (2 screens). I had an old clunker of a laptop for any personal portability stuff.
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I bought MacBook Air M1 8gb/256gb available now for 650 and the M2 MBP Pro (non pro cpu) 24gb/1TB available for 1299. I LC with the Air, daughter uses the MBP for her social media marketing job.
Yeah in considering doing the non pro M2 if I can find a good deal on one
Best Buy has that on sale atm.