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Trying to decide between which MacBook Pro to get -- one with M4 or upgayed to M4 Pro. I use the MacBook as my primary home computer for work/fun -- it's plugged into two 27-inch monitors via HDMI cables so I have three screens going. I'm still using Parallels to run Windows. This appears to drain the current laptop's computing power. The M4 Pro chip version is about $360 more but offers Thunderbird 5 capability vs Thunderbird 4 on the M4. Both have 24GB RAM and 1TB SSD. The M4 has 10-core CPU/GPU while the M4 Pro offers 14-core CPU/20-core GPU.

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16 minutes ago, C-Man said:

I'm still using Parallels to run Windows. This appears to drain the current laptop's computing power.

What are you using windows for? IMO you'd be better off buying a cheap NUC or laptop for whatever windows stuff and just let your macbook do mac stuff. Emulating x86 Windows inside an ARM-based virtual environment is gonna be worse performance than most cheapo windows laptops, even on an M4 pro.

In terms of extensability and driving external displays, I'd go for M4 pro all day. Thunderbolt 5 has way better bandwidth and can daisy chain more devices per port than Thunderbolt 4

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Unless you're looking for a Thunderbirds-based IO protocol, and then you'll prolly need to go Linux

Thunderbirds (TV Series 1965–1966) - Episode list - IMDb

edit: or are you using ARM Windows? You might try that instead of x86 and see if you get a performance uplift

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57 minutes ago, Captainant said:

What are you using windows for? IMO you'd be better off buying a cheap NUC or laptop for whatever windows stuff and just let your macbook do mac stuff. Emulating x86 Windows inside an ARM-based virtual environment is gonna be worse performance than most cheapo windows laptops, even on an M4 pro.

In terms of extensability and driving external displays, I'd go for M4 pro all day. Thunderbolt 5 has way better bandwidth and can daisy chain more devices per port than Thunderbolt 4

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Unless you're looking for a Thunderbirds-based IO protocol, and then you'll prolly need to go Linux

Thunderbirds (TV Series 1965–1966) - Episode list - IMDb

edit: or are you using ARM Windows? You might try that instead of x86 and see if you get a performance uplift

I'm pretty set on having one machine to do all the things. Mainly, the PC emulator is to run sports sim games that I dick around with. They only run on PC machines. Not very graphic-intense at all. There might be another PC-only application I'm not immediately thinking of.

 

22 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

For you, definitely upgayed.

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