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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.
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I work in AV & often have several Aftereffects, Photoshop, Premiere projects open, along with ffmpeg encodes running in the background, with a Windows VM running hefty and poorly optimised media server production software and a load of proprietary, poorly optimised 32-bit control programs.
32GB gets munched in a second and I find myself having to consciously manage which projects to close, which VM to suspend...
Mine has the 2.3GHz i9, apparently the 2.4GHz is materially faster as it’s a better-binned piece of silicon and runs at lower voltages for a given turbo state than the 2.3.
What’s been a real game changer for me is being able to exploit the T2 chip’s hardware-accelerated h.265 encoding via ffmpeg. Delivering previews to clients has never been so quick.
ectoplasmosis
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.