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I have 32GB in my 16” Pro and regularly wish I’d got 64GB.
Hyped for this new architecture though. Hopefully by the time the beefier Pros are out it’ll be possible to run legacy x86 Windows apps in a Win10 ARM VM via Microsoft’s x86 to ARM emulation/translation. I have to use many bits of native Windows software for work and Parallels/Bootcamp is has been nirvana for me.
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What's your use case with 64GB?
I'll probably give it another month or so to see if they slip out a 10th gen intel upgrade but very much doubt it. Then will pick up:
2.3GHz 8-core 9th-generation i9 processor, Turbo Boost up to 4.8GHz
64GB 2666MHz DDR4 memory
AMD Radeon Pro 5600M with 8GB of HBM2 memory
4TB SSD storageBut not sure on CPU and whether to opt for the higher option (2.4GHz 8-core 9th-generation Intel Core i9 processor, Turbo Boost up to 5.0GHz)
I'll mostly be using it in Mac OS and working in Resolve and Fusion but I'm a sucker (for my sins) for bootcamp gaming (PUBG mainly) so don't trust parallels etc for competitive games and am concerned the higher CPU will throttle faster or if you disable that then the lifespan will be greatly reduced. Only want to play in 1080p so hoping I'd get 3-5 years out of it without very noticeable slowdown.
CYOA
Depends what you're doing it with it. I'm someone who never closes tabs* or apps and am happy with an 8GB machine. Open Activity Monitor, go to the Memory tab and look at the graph on the left. If it's green - especially if you're in the middle of doing something intensive - you're all good.
(* Safari tabs, not Chrome tabs)
How many cores are you comparing? Intel has been cramming more and more into their designs, which looks good in benchmarks but doesn't help you if your workload isn't heavily multicore friendly.
There's also the thermal issue. Multicore chips work best when they can get rid of heat, which can't happen in an iPad.