16GB, 32GB or 64GB MacBook Pro? How to Decide
Apple doesn’t make this easy (again)
The most successful piece of content I’ve ever written in terms of views and engagement is my guide to choosing between 8GB and 16GB on an M1 MacBook.
To this day, my website receives thousands of hits every week for that article. Clearly, people are still having a hard time choosing between the two configurations for what is now Apple’s base-level homemade Mac chip.
This brings me to the next conundrum. How on earth do you choose between the unified memory (we have to call it that rather than ‘RAM’ now, apparently) options on the new M1 Pro and M1 Max chips?
My first piece of advice is to start with the chip itself. That’ll dictate what you can and can’t do with the unified memory, after all. So, if you haven’t read it yet, head over to my M1 Pro vs M1 Max guide and then drop back here to continue your purchasing decision.
Ready? Let’s get into it.
