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by smoldesu 1041 days ago
> MBP can compute anything anytime however i want

I wouldn't set your hopes that high. It won't manifest CUDA or Vulkan drivers for you magically, nor extend your battery life by having more cores and a larger screen.

You're ultimately looking at a set of tradeoffs. There are a lot of options, but none of them are really perfect. If Macbooks are my only option, I would probably be content with a Macbook Air with a high enough memory config. If you really need that much more power, you could purchase a separate Mac for home and VNC/SSH into it when you need the extra power.

There is no silver bullet here. I would reconsider how much power you actually need though; even the most intensive programming jobs can fit comfortably on a regular multi-core processor.