I've held off replacing my MBP for about 5 years. In the meantime I built my own PC with an Nvidia card, but I have to admit it's been such a nuisance to get CUDA set up (I started doing it when WSL documentation wasn't quite fully baked) that I'm nostalgic for the days of doing `brew install everything`.
The state of AI and other development in macOS seems like it's been pretty popular and solid for the past few years? Worth jumping in when the M4 laptops are announced, or better to get a deep discount on the M3s?
An M chip will still not compare at all to any decent discrete GPU when it comes to AI stuff. Unless you're going cloud like runpod or something.
Truth to be told what I'm likely going to continue to do is laptop as thin client and desktop with beefy gpu as workhorse, that's worked pretty well so far.
Deep discount on the M3, imo. That $500 ($1500 on sale vs $2000 new) is better spent on more RAM, or non-Apple products.
If you're using an Intel-based Mac, it really is a huge jump. Intel Macs are basically just really poorly cooled laptops, making them worse, performance-wise
The state of AI and other development in macOS seems like it's been pretty popular and solid for the past few years? Worth jumping in when the M4 laptops are announced, or better to get a deep discount on the M3s?