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Discussion on: What Mac to buy as an app dev 2020?

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Peter

Last year I also upgraded, 2011 single core MBP17 to a 2019 MBP with the eight core 2.4Ghz i9 and 32 gb of ram. My office computer is a 6 core xeon with 32 gb and this laptop can build my whole project in about 50% of the time my work station can, also windows vs macOS so there's that difference as well. Other than the cost I have no issues with the laptop.

On the price point, depending what you are working on/using the computer for you wouldn't have to max it out. Now that I have a remote computer from work (2015 iMac 27" with 4Ghz quad core i7 and 24 GB RAM) and I don't have to work from my laptop when I am remote, it is extremely over powered for what I use it for. My though rational was if I was going to spend that much money I would rather spend a little more and get much more processing power out of it.