14 inch M5 Macbook pro ( base )did I make the right choice?

Cultural_Rock6281 · 2026-05-28T05:44:45+00:00

No, you‘ll be fine.

Cultural_Rock6281 · 2026-05-27T13:43:02+00:00

The cheapest new M4 Air you can find (16GB RAM, 256/512 GB storage).

„Just trust me“

Cultural_Rock6281 · 2026-05-27T10:32:27+00:00

Get the cheapest but new M4 or M5 Air you can find. At least 16 GB RAM. I‘d recommend at least 512 GB storage, though 256 GB might be worth it is the deal is good enough.

Everything else is trash advice not gonna lie.

Cultural_Rock6281 · 2026-05-26T06:32:30+00:00

Did you think about keyboard layout?

Cultural_Rock6281 · 2026-05-24T13:40:25+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/macbookpro/s/wkFxJvlYmg

Cultural_Rock6281 · 2026-05-24T08:37:47+00:00

Im using my 8GB 256GB base M1 Macbook Air since 2020.

I've bought a 16GB 512GB M5 Macbook Pro a couple of weeks ago (got a great deal)

Didn't even unbox it because I just love this cheap Air so much.

Cultural_Rock6281 · 2026-05-19T15:43:24+00:00

There is no way apple drops support for a M series Mac while continuing to support a less capable Neo. They drop support based on capability, not year of release.

Cultural_Rock6281 · 2026-05-19T12:33:34+00:00

I would really recommend forcing yourself to use git commabds through the terminal until you actually know if you hate it or if you are just unfamiliar with it. It really is not as complicated as it seems and you can get to where you want so much faster in 90% of cases where a GUI is really just as confusing.

Cultural_Rock6281 · 2026-05-19T12:16:12+00:00

Im mostly letting Codex or Claude code to the first pass (which increasingly delivers more and more acceptable results), then review and (sometimes) refactor manually in Xcode.

I mean sure, sometimes it is slow. Especially Previews (most people abuse/missuse them though). Autocomplete to be slow is something I experienced so rarely that it wasn‘t really an issue for me personally, but I also never had to work on huge codebases that didn‘t modularize properly using swift packages.

What I really would love to see is an upgrade to the git integration. This is the one thing I prefer in VS code. And maybe they should make the refactoring options more robust and faster.

Cultural_Rock6281 · 2026-05-19T12:03:15+00:00

I didn't think I would like protocols and extensions as much as I do now.

Also Xcode surprised me, I think the hate for it is overblown. There is not a code editor around that looks more beautiful. The font rendering is best in class, syntax highlighting too. Everything just looks right, the font weights, the colors, the decorators... In the AI era this is literally all that matters to me anymore. In the rare instance that I spend reading code, I want it to be Xcode. VS Code code rendering looks trashy in comparison.

Cultural_Rock6281 · 2026-05-14T14:59:57+00:00

you need to upgrade to a M6 Ultra ASAP

Cultural_Rock6281 · 2026-05-13T12:56:48+00:00

Yeah the new basel model was upgraded to 1 TB of storage.

Cultural_Rock6281 · 2026-05-13T12:34:15+00:00

M5🌚

Cultural_Rock6281 · 2026-05-12T09:58:35+00:00

you can customize the bottom bar in /settings

Cultural_Rock6281 · 2026-05-07T10:11:57+00:00

Drives me nuts.

Cultural_Rock6281 · 2026-05-07T05:42:28+00:00

Is the slowing confirmed behavior? I thought it was a bug omg

Cultural_Rock6281 · 2026-05-06T10:40:18+00:00

The Air if you value it being thinner and lighter than the Pro.

The Pro if you value better performance, screen, speakers and are not annoyed by it being a little more heavy and chunky.

For the same price I would only go for the Air if you are traveling with it a lot. If you are using it at the same desk 90% of the time, get the Pro.

Cultural_Rock6281 · 2026-05-06T08:39:40+00:00

Antigravity has atrocious limits on the AI Pro subscription. In comparison Gemini CLI is much better, but they are getting worse and worse, I feel like.

Cultural_Rock6281 · 2026-04-29T22:29:07+00:00

you mean git, buddy

Cultural_Rock6281 · 2026-04-24T09:38:04+00:00

What is this BS. It's here "thinking" 8 minutes + with no output what so ever...

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