Comment by tom_
1 month ago
But what if you were going to buy a laptop anyway? Obviously you can't do anything with less than 64 GBytes these days, so the question is just whether you go for the jump to 128.
In the UK, it's currently an extra £800 to get a 128 GB vs the 64 GB equivalent. So that's more like 3 years of Claude - I think? - assuming current prices stay the same.
Or: you might just feel like £800 isn't an unjustifiable amount of money (one way or another), and tick the box, on the basis that it might just work out. As the saying goes, in for 459,900 pennies, in for £5,399...
> Obviously you can't do anything with less than 64 GBytes these days
I don't think that's true. Plenty of people can run basic workflows at 8GB on the MacBook Neo and most others are fine at 16 GB.
I am a developer, as many of us on here are. I currently have 32GB of RAM and am constantly fighting swap. 64GB would be min even w/o local model.
I rebuilt the entire fastcomments moderation UI 2yrs ago with webstorm on my 16gb thinkpad. 64gb is nice but not needed. I wonder if every dev didn't use an M4 Pro if software wouldn't be so resource hungry...
Realistically it's 48 M5 Pro vs 128 M5 Max due to constraints on how you can configure them. So a more substantial difference of ~2k US.
I didn't click through the full UI to get the lead time or anything; I just looked at the options presented on the UK site. Maybe there's a stock of laptop types here that have all sold out elsewhere? Or maybe they were just teasing me, and I'd have been hit with a 6+ month delivery time if I'd gone all the way.