Would This Macbook Pro Be Suitable for my Development Needs?

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I been speaking to a well established company who trade in PC’s and laptops, and I asked them about if they had a Macbook in Silver, and they came back saying they have a 16 inch Macbook Pro that only has 10 battery cycle counts and has the following specifications:
Silver 16″ Apple MacBook Pro Touch. Intel i7. 16GB. 512GB

Condition:

  • Grade A in original box with original power adaptor.

  • Battery cycle count of only 10.

Specifications

  • Processor: Intel Core i7 (9th Gen) 2.6 GHz (4.5 GHz) / 12 MB Cache

  • Memory: 16 GB DDR4

  • Storage: 512GB SSD

  • Display: 16″ LED backlight 3072 x 1920 – 226 ppi

  • Graphics:

  • AMD Radeon Pro 5300M 4GB

  • Intel UHD Graphics 630

  • Keyboard: UK

  • Keyboard Backlight: Yes

  • Integrated Webcam: Yes

  • Networking: 802.11a/b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 5.0

  • Colour: Silver

  • **Dimensions (WxDxH):**35.79 cm x 24.59 cm x 1.62 cm

  • Weight: 2 kg

  • Operating System: Big Sur

The games I have planned to make for MacOS are lightweight games like a version of a game called Brain Shift which I call Mob Shift and the biggest graphical game I have plans to do is a fan remake of a game called Tetris Worlds like the GameCube version. In addition, I’m helping out a reverse engineering team who are reversing a light 90’s game Abe’s Oddysee and Abe’s Exoddus and planning to make it bigger in 2.5D like New ‘n’ Tasty. Would it be worth buying an i9 Mac? I have an i7 gaming laptop with an 8GB RTX 3070 that plays all my games fine including Soulstom, Oddworld’s biggest Unity game.

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I can’t speak to this exact model, but here are the specs of my personal MBP:

So, pretty much inferior to that one in every way that matters, and I’ve used it on quite a number of Unity projects. Obviously you won’t be doing anything too advanced, including VR, but I think you recognize that.

Do you just want the MBP for doing macOS builds, since your laptop is vastly superior? If that’s the case, I would highly recommend you look into the Mac Mini instead. You can even run it headless and just remote to it from your Windows laptop to kick off builds. I have to imagine it’d save you at least $1000 that way.

But if you’re set on getting the laptop and the price is fine with you, I’d say it’s sufficient for what you plan on doing with it.

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Yes ideally I need a Macbook Pro for my MacOS and iOS builds along with my video editing and music production stuff I do on a Mac with software like Logic.

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If that’s what you’re looking for, then yeah, go with what you want. The MBP in question should be able to handle that.

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Cool. Then I will probably go with the Mac they’re offering. It will be cheaper to buy one reconditioned than a new one. It hasn’t been used that much, only 10 battery cycles!

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Yeah, that’s basically new. I just ordered a new PC recently to replace my old MBP, and as excited as I am… I’ll miss the MBP. The best thing about them is how – if you take care of them – they last for years beyond what I’d ever consider using most Windows laptops.

Hope you enjoy it!

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