Heck, I’ll play some games for several hours before I start getting worried. I’ll be in AutoCAD for 8 hours before I even think about plugging in. ![]() Any of them will blow your previous laptop experience away on battery life. Thought on battery & heat: if you’ve never had any M1 product, I’d say don’t worry about battery. The extra space is nice, but so too would be the smaller device to carry. The differences between the Pro and Max are too small outside of maximum allowable memory and media editing, IMHO.Ī 16” screen I could take or leave VS a 14” for code. M1 Max is absolutely unnecessary for CS or programming. If Revit ran Mac native, I’d probably be thrilled with 32 GB.Īs I am also a current collegiate computer science student, I’ll speak to some of that angle too: If I never needed so much memory in a Windows VM, I’d be plenty happy with just the M1 Pro with 32GB of memory. I’d say from that perspective, the only reason I’d stay with the Max the second time chip is if I had the 64 GB RAM version. I use a Windows 11 VM on Parallels for some Windows-only CAD software (Revit, occasionally AutoCAD Architecture instead of my main AutoCAD for Mac), though, and I’d really have liked to give Windows its own 32GB of memory. I did not get 64GB of memory, however, and wish I had. The screen size matters less if 90% of the time you use a larger external display. I used to have a 2011-13”, and loved upgrading to a 2016-15”, and now the 2021-16” with M1 Max. ![]() I would definitely regret having bought the 14” for heavy CAD use. Speaking from experience of a 10+yr Mac-first CAD user as this question was asked in an AutoCAD sub, I’d definitely recommend the 16” just for the screen space. Related Subreddits /r/Revit /r/Architecture /r/Autodesk /r/cad /r/civil3d PC Builds (See Wiki for Additional Info) ~$500USD PC Build ~$900USD PC Build ~$1500USD PC Build
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