Which is better, 2013 Mac Pro or New Macbook Pro?
My current machine is a Mac Pro, late 2013 model, 2.7 GHz 12-Core Intel Xeon E5, 64 GB 1866 MHz DDR3 and a 1 TB SSD. I have owned it from new and it was originally a 6-Core, 16 GB machine that I upgraded to the current spec myself about a year ago.
I run it with a Samsung Odyssey G9 C49RG90SSR screen these days which is about a year old and do mostly Adobe Creative Cloud work like Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreaweaver and Premier Pro, so a reasonably heavy workload.
Runs sweet as a nut and is a decent machine.
But, It's time to move up to a newer model, and I'm considering going laptop because nowadays I need the portability, but when at home can still run it with the same screen, wireless keyboard and mouse, just run it closed and then take it away when I need to.
So, I'm considering MacBook Pro, 16", Apple M1 Max chip with 10-core CPU, 32-core GPU, 64 GB RAM, 2 TB SSD as the new contender.
So, 2 questions...
Given that both old and new have 64 GB RAM, which will perform better when old has 12-Core processor and new has 10-Core processor? I definitely am looking for an improvement in performance.
And, I see that the Macbook Airs are now shipped with the M2 chip but this one has M1, so is the M1 superior to M2, or is it better and I should wait until the Macbook Pro is released with the M2?
Thanks.