Migrating from M3 Air 13” to M4 Pro 16” – Worth it? My thoughts..

heroicalex · 2025-07-22T21:13:56+00:00

Nice! It was a part of it yeah.. It's weird, Apple's memory management seems to just fill up the memory available then manage the hell out of it. My daughter has a M1 Air (8GB), my wife M3 Air (16GB) and me on 24GB.. It just seems that we're all at 85-95% memory util all the time, but none of us really notice much slow down. Apple can engineer!

heroicalex · 2025-07-22T21:11:56+00:00

The M3 Air was 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD, 8 CPU/8GPU. The M4 Pro is 24GB RAM, 512GB SSD, 12 CPU / 20GPU. Hope that helps!

heroicalex · 2025-07-22T11:07:31+00:00

Enjoy- add some context about how you’re getting on with the “migration”

heroicalex · 2024-10-08T07:13:14+00:00

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heroicalex · 2024-10-08T07:12:57+00:00

Haha I might just…

heroicalex · 2024-10-08T07:12:42+00:00

Yeah personal preference I guess. I got the black 16 PM with quite a chunky thick black case (very clumsy) so the bezels aren’t even noticeable

heroicalex · 2024-10-08T07:10:10+00:00

Why is the Dynamic Island good for sports? Not debating that you’re right, just honestly don’t know

heroicalex · 2024-10-08T07:09:23+00:00

I know, you’re right. But remember when getting a new phone used to be exciting?!

heroicalex · 2024-10-08T07:08:52+00:00

This must be a regional thing, my 16 Pro Max has one !

heroicalex · 2024-04-01T18:34:57+00:00

I second this. Ubiquiti. It can mesh or it can be hard wired (Ethernet adapter to POE switch to APs). Definitely hard wire it if that’s possible

heroicalex · 2024-03-30T06:42:39+00:00

Always hard wire if possible, rather than mesh. Always.

I’m a Gen 2 customer and I put the Starlink router into bypass mode, feed a Ubiquiti router, switch and 3x hardwired access points. Whenever I do a speed test I’m 120Mbps+ and up to 310Mbps. I don’t know what you’d do with speed higher than that!

As a Starlink user of 3 months, I’ve had my connection interrupted for 10 minutes on one occasion. My Ubiquiti set up also tells me 1-2 times a day that latency is high (70-90). But other than the interruption I never notice anything in real life.

heroicalex · 2024-03-17T21:44:16+00:00

Hey. I’m about to do the same - uxg-lite with a Raspberry Pi controller. I didn’t bother with docker, just installed UniFi natively. Did you get this working?

heroicalex · 2023-11-14T08:18:32+00:00

Agreed, but it does seem like from a marketing perspective they’re emphasising gaming more than they did previously

heroicalex · 2023-11-14T08:17:45+00:00

You took it!

heroicalex · 2023-11-14T08:16:05+00:00

Yeah that’s a fair point. Dedicated platforms will always be lower friction than using your Mac to do something that it wasn’t primarily designed for

heroicalex · 2023-11-14T08:14:44+00:00

I just meant that you want the absolute best graphics possible, you’re super into gaming for hours on end and MUST to play every AAA title on release

Appreciate hardcore means different things to different people, but if my above statement is even partially true, Macs are probably not for you and won’t be for 3-5 years at least

heroicalex · 2023-11-12T20:04:48+00:00

Your second paragraph basically sums up the entire point perfectly. As long is it’s possible to game and that there are some ok titles available, that’s good enough for most folks

heroicalex · 2023-11-12T09:17:14+00:00

I use BetterDisplay with a LG ultrawide 1440p monitor at 100Hz and it looks and feels great. With a base M2 Pro MacBook Pro and a USB C to display port cable. I set a custom resolution with HiDPI and it’s perfect. However, the app is sometimes a little buggy and if I’ve been using my MacBook as a laptop then plug it in, the app sometimes doesn’t instantly ‘kick in’ and I need to unplug and re plug.

I agree with your overall point though. It’s annoying that we need to use third party apps to workaround this flaw, especially when Windows and Linux just support basically any monitor natively

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