Fun_Bread_5624

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Guys, will 512GB SSD be enough? I'm choosing between buying M2 Pro 1TB and M3 Pro 512GB. The 1TB version is not available rn where I live and nobody knows when it will be. From what I've seen, M3 Pro is really better in battery department, which is exactly what I need, plus it have 2 additional GBs of RAM and all other small bonuses.

My work now is online business management, but with new laptop I want to try video/photo editing. Basically it will be editing for personal use or some for YouTube uploads, not some films or weddings. Right now on my windows laptop I have ≈700gb hard drive, 370gb is occupied (realistically 100gb is steam library, which will be not even available on mac and other 50-100gb is very old media or trash).

The last concern is that I've heard the bigger the amount of memory is free - the faster will be swap, and if you don't leave at least a few hundred GBs free - your mac will be lagging. Considering this, the base configuration is definitely not enough. But idk if its true, this will be my first macbook.

 

Which one of those will be better?

MBP 16" M2 Pro 12/19 16gb / 1tb Silver ≈2550$

or

MBP 16" M3 Pro 12/18 18gb / 512gb Space Black ≈2900$