I've read through the MacBook threads and seen one question repeated again and again: which specs to go for in the new MacBooks. I figured it might be worth it to make a dedicated post to discuss this.

To start this off, consider the following scenario:

- 50% of my work is web or mobile app development

- another 50% is training ML and deep learning models (currently on a cluster, but I'd prefer do it on my notebook of course)

- I also do raw photo editing work, as a hobby

In this case, what specs would you choose for your Mac? Specifically:

- M1 Pro with [14, 16] GPU cores, [8, 10] CPU cores, and [16, 32] GB of unified memory

- M1 Max with [24, 32] GPU cores, 10 CPU cores, and [32, 64] GB of unified memory