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I just got a m4 max with a 4tb internal drive. I had a m1 max with 2tb internal. I do a fair amount of shoots requiring a few hundred gigs at a time. With the 2tb drive, I was frequently trying to move items off the working drive (internal) to an external 8tb nvme drive (very fast, but not as fast as the internal). I would have to also do a backup to my NAS or another external ssd drive for redundancy. I found a huge pain in the arse to constantly try to manage the internal drive space and on more than a few occasions, would have to move projects off of the internal to an external before I could download the images to work on them. This was especially true in photo workrooms which meant I had to carry an external drive all of the time. Yes, it's small, light and easily portable, but just another piece to carry in an already full backpack. Anyway, the 4tb seems to be the sweet spot for me. I've currently got 9 sizable projects on my internal 4tb drive with a little more than 2tb free. Room for more!
Bottom line for me is the simplicity of one working drive, one external backup and one NAS for everything is so much easier than trying to move files around and make room so the computer could work efficiently.
Yes, I paid a premium for the apple storage. But at age 60, this may be my last "work" laptop and it offers room for growth. I may not ever need another work computer. So, I think a critical factor in deciding on a new one is how long do you keep your computers. If you keep them 5+ years, spend as much as possible. If you only keep them a couple of years, it's probably not as important to future proof your purchase.
After a month of ownership, I really do love having the 4tb and not worrying about shuffling folders around. The price was worth it for me.
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I have a 2021 16" M1 Macbook Pro 1TB and I love the laptop. The only annoying thing about it is having to manage 1TB onboard storage and that's my main reason of wanting to upgrade. 2TB would be comfortable, 4TB would be more than comfortable but would still be nice and future proof. I like to keep a bigger onboard library even though I can and do manage with less using external hard drives and a NAS.
Anyway, the bigger storage pushes me toward the used max range. If I'm already buying something to upgrade the storage, I'm trying to figure out if I should just focus on the storage or open up the budget a bit more for a newer generation with better speed. I primarily use photoshop and lightroom, I am not a big video editor, so I know I really am not going to push the laptops. But my biggest tasks that currently take enough time I usually set them off and walk away are batch processing AI masks, batch processing noise reduction etc. I tend to use all my RAM with both PS and LR concurrently running, but the memory recycling is efficient enough it never seems to bog the system down. I'd be willing to pay a premium to take one of those batch processing down from 10 mins to cut it in half. I cant remember exactly what performance numbers drive those types of tasks, single core, multi core, CPU, GPU or both. I know I wont utilize a lot of the Max performance, but if the part I do use is noticeably faster, that would be a cherry on top of the extra storage.
I love my battery life, and the screen of the 16". Performance is fine, although more is always better. It's also fine enough to keep managing my storage for another few years before upgrading. I'm just never going to be willing to pay new Apple prices for how much they upcharge for storage which is my biggest want.
I found what seems like a decent local deal on a Macbook M3 Max 4TB/128 GB for $3k I'm considering. I'm trying to decide if it will be so overkill to just wait for a better deal on something like an M1 Max.
Swimming through the matrix of M1-4 Max/Pro options can be a lot to decipher. Anyone with some practical experience or advice would be much appreciated!...Show more →
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So instead of it taking roughly two hours to convert a two hour video, it did it in about 10 minutes.