I've been looking for the right laptop for when I start at uni as an engineering student. I was looking to get a macbook. When I heard there would be an apple event focussed around macs I was kind of interested and watched it. Now I live in Belgium this means the starting price for the MBP M3 base model is €2029 instead of $1599. BUT the thing is that I've got 17% off, that means the base MBP M3 is €1684 now. Keeping this is mind I looked at the minimum requirements of my faculty I started looking around. Firstly I was thinking of waiting until the M3 Air. But when I looked at the requirements it said that a mac mini or Macbook Air isn't recommended because of harder to run programmes needeing the "active cooling" (this made me look into the macbook pros and other windows laptops). Now that I now that I probably need a pro the 120Hz comes as a nice extra because I've been using 120Hz+ displays only for the past 2-3 years and I don't want to look back. Now to come to a conclusion/ question. The requirements also said at least 16GBs of RAM was required so I was looking at the price of the MBP M3 with 16GBs of RAM which comes to a total of €1875 with the 17% off. But than i saw the MBP M3 Pro has 18GBs of RAM and has a better chip ofcourse and this would come to €2115. Is the extra €240 worth it for the M3 pro model considering I am going to try to use this laptop for at least 5-6 years (the time it takes to finish my studies).