I’m about to buy a new MacBook Pro, but waffling between 32GB RAM and the 4TB SSD, or 64GB RAM and the 2TB SSD (don’t quite have the budget to go 64GB/4TB). Leaning toward the 64G/2T setup, but I keep hearing that RAM isn’t as critical as it used to be, and storage space is good, so maybe 32G/4T is the better move?
Boy, computers are hard.
Maybe it makes a difference if I state my intention to have this machine last me a decade, as did the MacBook Pro it will retire. So maxing out CPU and GPU is a given, but I do wonder if I’ll better appreciate more active RAM or more SSD over those ten years.
A strong majority make the case that more storage can be externally connected but RAM cannot, and over 10 years, software developers are likely to find ways to chew up all the RAM they can and then some. It’s a pretty good case. (And I’m totally going to claim that’s why I was leaning that way to begin with.)
@Meyerweb I would normally argue this case. Depends on the use case, but 32GB should be plenty of RAM for the foreseeable future. Might as well go for the extra storage if you want to spend the money.
I have 8GB, no troube. It depends on the use case indeed.
