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frontpage Posted by Dr.Wajahat • Last Tuesday
May 13, 2025 3:43 PM
Apple MacBook Pro Laptop: M4, 14.2" 3024x1964, 48GB RAM, 1TB SSD (Late 2024)
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Interestingly, according to CPUBenchmark.net, M4 Pro 14c beats M3 Max 14x overall (38,228 vs. 36,663), but M3 Max has ~4.6% better single core speed. Pretty impressive on the part of the M4 Pro. Fantastic machine. 48GB would be amazing.
FYI I was able to get the 512 GB model of this laptop (M4 Pro w/ 48 GB RAM) for ~2000 refurbished from Apple. Just depends on if you prefer 512 GB or 1 TB for the price.
Interestingly, according to CPUBenchmark.net, M4 Pro 14c beats M3 Max 14x overall (38,228 vs. 36,663), but M3 Max has ~4.6% better single core speed. Pretty impressive on the part of the M4 Pro. Fantastic machine. 48GB would be amazing.
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The M4 Pro is almost certainly going to be better on overall power consumption/battery life, too. The Max chips push the 14" MBP form factor a little hard in terms of cooling & battery capacity, in my opinion (as an owner of an M1 Max, and a Base M1 Pro before that which did way better on battery life).
The M4 Pro is almost certainly going to be better on overall power consumption/battery life, too. The Max chips push the 14" MBP form factor a little hard in terms of cooling & battery capacity, in my opinion (as an owner of an M1 Max, and a Base M1 Pro before that which did way better on battery life).
To me the only reason you'd want to go with the Max is if you needed more than 48GBs. It's a very large price to pay for gaming.
The M4 Pro is almost certainly going to be better on overall power consumption/battery life, too. The Max chips push the 14" MBP form factor a little hard in terms of cooling & battery capacity, in my opinion (as an owner of an M1 Max, and a Base M1 Pro before that which did way better on battery life).
Thanks for the reply, funny4life. And you would think M3 Max > M4 Pro, right? But that was my whole point. At least based on CPUBenchmark reported numbers, the M4 Pro appears to do better than the M3 Max. But honestly they're super close. If I had to choose, I'd want to know what TDP they each have, and go with whichever one had lower power consumption.
Caleo --> agreed!!! I would totally have chosen this machine last year with 48GB RAM over my M3 Max 36GB (but it didn't exist yet, of course). Going from a 14" M1 Pro w/16GB to a 14" M3 Max w/36GB was amazing. I should have bought my M1 Pro with 32GB of RAM in the first place. Lesson learned. Maybe once my M3 Max is old enough, I'll jump on a deal for an older machine with 64B RAM
Now they generally don't have good pricing at all, and every single time I've asked them to price match, they've told me to go and pound sand for the most part, given me a tiny discount and said "Your Payboo card gives you the tax off" like I should be grateful.
The only problem is, lately, even taking into consideration the added sales tax, places like Micro Center have STILL been cheaper than BHPhoto WITHOUT the sales tax and WITH their tiny discount!
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