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It'll help make the lightest and smallest devices even more capable than any other competing laptop. After using my work issued 16" M2 Pro, my 2019 intel mbp is crawlin slow, particularly with Docker. Build times can always be faster, battery life always better, cooling efficiency better.

The real life luxury of just being able to toss a 14" macbook pro that weighs almost nothing into your bag and have a savage development machine with up to 96gb of ram, no fan noise and minimal heat, great battery life, is very valuable.

I've started noticing all the processes that really bog my intel mac down. Indexing, running out of ram, builds, etc.. I was pretty pessimistic about macs for a while, but it feels right now like when they started putting retina displays in them. My previous mac couldn't even smoothly play a 1080p YouTube video very well.

Similar for me, caved in and bought a M2. It's great and all, gotta say though, not entirely happy with how unbearable the 2019 intel mbp has become.

Yeah, it struggles with YouTube videos and fans are spinning in vacuum cleaner mode. But it didn't in 2019. I feel OS and software updates ruined it. Not what I expect after only about 3 years of use. (obviously it wasn't cheap either)

Oh well, still gave Apple my money, just hope it's a special situation with the chipset transition and not the regular lifespan from now on.

It's worth it being aware that charging those 2019 Intel Macs from the right-hand-side USB-C ports will cause them to overheat and get thermal throttled.

Not saying you're doing that or that they are otherwise great machines (they're not) but they can go from being a steak grill back to being a relatively serviceable computer just by switching the charging port.

> charging those 2019 Intel Macs from the right-hand-side USB-C ports will cause them to overheat and get thermal throttled.

Pretty sure you have it backwards, it's charging from the _left_ that causes more throttling.

What browser are you running? My 2017 Mac runs 4k YouTube videos without a glitch in Safari.

I should have articulated that differently. What I meant to say was that the mac I had prior to my first Retina MBP (2013) couldn't run 1080p YT videos well. That model was a 2009 13", if memory serves. So I was just comparing the two transitional periods, whereby my Intel mac feels almost as limited as that 2009 machine did.

I prefer to use Brave to watch Youtube; it skips most of the ads automatically.

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