I use a 2018 15” MacBook Pro and it works well. The biggest change is the I/O. I have a dock I use to connect my monitors, keyboard, etc. but they’re a bit pricey if you don’t want a donglefest.
I went 15” because at the time the 13” were all dual core only which didn’t seem like enough for running a bunch of services at once. Also the 13 only had two thunderbolt 3 ports, so if I wanted to dock I’d be limited to one side of the computer.
Now there are higher end 13-inch with quad cores and 4 thunderbolt 3 ports, so it may be worth considering if you want more portability. Obvious downside is missing screen real estate if you often use the onboard screen.
If you do go for the 15, I’d stick with 16GB of RAM. 32 is priced too high and you probably won’t need it.
Either way I wouldn’t go with an air, you’ll miss the extra cores when multitasking.
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I use a 2018 15” MacBook Pro and it works well. The biggest change is the I/O. I have a dock I use to connect my monitors, keyboard, etc. but they’re a bit pricey if you don’t want a donglefest.
I went 15” because at the time the 13” were all dual core only which didn’t seem like enough for running a bunch of services at once. Also the 13 only had two thunderbolt 3 ports, so if I wanted to dock I’d be limited to one side of the computer.
Now there are higher end 13-inch with quad cores and 4 thunderbolt 3 ports, so it may be worth considering if you want more portability. Obvious downside is missing screen real estate if you often use the onboard screen.
If you do go for the 15, I’d stick with 16GB of RAM. 32 is priced too high and you probably won’t need it.
Either way I wouldn’t go with an air, you’ll miss the extra cores when multitasking.