Best Buy has
Apple MacBook Pro 13.3" Laptop (MYD92LL/A; Late 2020 Model) on sale for $999.99
Now-> $1049.99.
Shipping is free, otherwise, select free curbside pickup as an alternative option.
Thanks to community member
harenbrahmbhatt for finding this deal
Note, curbside pickup may vary depending on location. Item is available in both
Silver or
Space Gray colorway
Specs/Key Features- Apple M1 8-Core GPU
- 13.3" 2560x1600 500-Nits Retina Display w/ 720p Front-Facing Camera/Built In Microphone
- 512GB Solid State Drive SSD
- 8GB LPDDR3 RAM
- WiFi 6 Network (various compatible network; A/AC/AX/B/G/N)
- Apple Touch Bar w/ Touch Trackpad
- Fingerprint Reader
- Built-In Siri Voice Assistant
- 61W Lithium Polymer Battery
- macOS Big Sur 11.0
Warranty- Includes a standard 1-year manufacturer warranty w/ purchase (parts + labor)
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The reason I ask is late last year Resolve was updated to run natively on the M1, so if your bad experience was prior to the update, it's possible things have changed.
A couple years ago, Apple moved away from Intel CPUs (i3, i5, i7) and started making their own (M1, now M2). I'm oversimplifying things, but when software runs natively, these systems perform amazingly well, even with 8GB of RAM.
Prior to the shift, and with Windows, it's like we've gotten used to driving around in a truck with the bed full of concrete, towing an RV. We all know that 8 gallons of gas isn't enough to drive 20 miles to the beach and back. But if you take that concrete out of the back and unhook the RV, suddenly 8 gallons of gas is more than enough.
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M1 16GB >= Intel 32GB. Our developers moved from Intel 32GB MBP (which was barely enough) to M1 with 16GB with room to spare, and faster.
The reason I ask is late last year Resolve was updated to run natively on the M1, so if your bad experience was prior to the update, it's possible things have changed.
A couple years ago, Apple moved away from Intel CPUs (i3, i5, i7) and started making their own (M1, now M2). I'm oversimplifying things, but when software runs natively, these systems perform amazingly well, even with 8GB of RAM.
Prior to the shift, and with Windows, it's like we've gotten used to driving around in a truck with the bed full of concrete, towing an RV. We all know that 8 gallons of gas isn't enough to drive 20 miles to the beach and back. But if you take that concrete out of the back and unhook the RV, suddenly 8 gallons of gas is more than enough.
What people need to say is "if you have a need, get the machine with more ram. however, if you don't, then 8gb will get you by just fine".
And that can be independent of use. Too small a SSD is another problem that can have impact on memory usage. When the SSD starts to get filled up, its performance starts to drop and so the paging lags (and the beachball occurrences) becomes a lot more noticeable. Apple hopes you will upgrade by that time but it is not a financially savvy solution for the consumer.
Applications get more sloppy about memory because they all start to develop them on higher memory configurations and don't test on 8GB machines before release. Those applications start to lag, And so on….
The M1 is also different in the sense that the same 8GB memory is shared between the CPU, GPU and the neural engine. So, the effective memory available for applications is less than 8GB. This makes for a fast machine but only if you are able to hide the paging penalty with a super fast SSD.
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And that can be independent of use. Too small a SSD is another problem that can have impact on memory usage. When the SSD starts to get filled up, its performance starts to drop and so the paging lags (and the beachball occurrences) becomes a lot more noticeable. Apple hopes you will upgrade by that time but it is not a financially savvy solution for the consumer.
Applications get more sloppy about memory because they all start to develop them on higher memory configurations and don't test on 8GB machines before release. Those applications start to lag, And so on….
The point which you totally lost is that as SSDs start to fill up their performance slows down which means the paging gets slower which means you start seeing more beach balls which you might not at the beginning. So, your advice to buy what works now isn't a good one without understanding how you might get bit later.
Just avoid 8GB machines unless you want to upgrade far sooner than you think. The same shrills who day 8GB is ok now will be cheering the next gen at 16GB saying why that is much better than with 8GB and encouraging upgrading to it.
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Sheesh. We are talking about a laptop here. You don't carry around a NAS with you. So, the storage in the laptop will start getting filled up. If you use it differently tied to a NAS all the time, then that is irrelevant to this discussion.
The point which you totally lost is that as SSDs start to fill up their performance slows down which means the paging gets slower which means you start seeing more beach balls which you might not at the beginning. So, your advice to buy what works now isn't a good one without understanding how you might get bit later.
Just avoid 8GB machines unless you want to upgrade far sooner than you think. The same shrills who day 8GB is ok now will be cheering the next gen at 16GB saying why that is much better than with 8GB and encouraging upgrading to it.
All my m1 iMac and pros are 8gb nonissue. My m1 iMac is 16gb and 2tb hdd
And I really see zero difference between them on a daily useage tbh.
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