I’ve currently got a 2018 15” MBP that I’ve been using since it released. With the pending announcement of the new MacBooks today, I’m trying to decide whether I would like to upgrade to a 14” or a 16” MBP. I see that the 16” is about 0.5 lbs heavier than my current laptop and the 14” is about 0.5 lbs lighter.
It will be plugged into my 27” monitor for about 30% of the time while the rest will be outside of the home. I use my laptop on the go for classes and many other things. I mostly use my laptop for videos, note taking, some machine learning projects, very large excel workflows, and SQL queries with Docker.
I was considering the 14” just because it is much cheaper….but I’m a bit hesitant because I hear the battery life is significantly better on the 16”. I’m really stuck and unsure of which one I should get. I did have a couple questions:
I hear people say that the screen on the 16” is amazing. Does that translate to the 14” model as well? Is the screen essentially the same but scaled down? Also, does anyone here have any experience with the battery life on the 14” model? When I bought my 2018 15” MBP the battery estimate (as it states right now on the Apple website as well) said that it would last 10 hours on the wireless web. Although the laptop definitely cannot do that now, I feel it was pretty accurate when I got it back in 2018. For the 14” it says 12 hours for the same metric and it says 15 hours for the 16”. I’m a bit concerned that the battery life improvements may not be too great on the 14” when compared to my 15” when it was new.
Any insight from anyone is appreciated!