Friends, can the M4 Macbook Air 13-inch, 32G + 256G configuration fight for five years in back-end development?
by Poster
May 29, 2025
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Anonymous8184 May 29, 2025The principle is that it is enough for the present, not paying for the virtual future, and keeping money is better than anything else. Development requires a large screen.
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Anonymous9847 May 29, 2025Connect an external hard drive, it should be enough
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Anonymous79 May 29, 2025For the five-year goal, this configuration is not enough, at least pro + 512 or above, and the chip can be cheaper from the previous generation
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Anonymous80 May 29, 2025It mainly depends on your project. The advantage of air is that it does not have a fan, and the disadvantage is also the same. As long as the amount of code in the project increases, compilation, Roslyn, and Code Analysis are the most tested times for heat dissipation. According to my experience, JB's "solution-level analysis", also known as Code Analysis, is the most CPU-baked and lasts for a long time (depending on the amount of code in your project). As long as you don't reopen large projects/IDEs frequently, it's fine
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Anonymous81 May 29, 2025What exactly will be stuck when developing? If M4 is stuck, is there any laptop that doesn't get stuck?.. The 256G hard drive depends on the individual. It is no problem to get a 200 yuan nas to store some small data, and the experience is completely fine. The M4 battle has been too conservative for five years. Several cpu models on amd have been standing still. Let's use it conservatively for 8 years.
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Anonymous82 May 29, 2025512, 5 years is not a problem
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Anonymous83 May 29, 2025Tell me about my feelings. As a developer, the following is the order of use mba 2013 intel 8G + 128 personal purchase main machine mba 2018 intel 16G + 256 personal purchase main machine mbp 2018 intel 16G + 256 (second half of 2020, the company's) The 2018 mba above is not powerful and overused I forgot the specific configuration of the mac mini (second half of 2020, the company's). The 2018 mba above is not powerful and overused mba 2020 m1 16G + 512 has been in service so far (main machine) I personally have a bad habit of using computers. Often chrome (50 + tab), edge (50 + tab), firefox (100 + tab), safari (50 + tab) idea starts more than 3 springboot services at the same time, webstorm starts more than 3 front-end vue services at the same time, docker starts one or two services locally, (this damn microservice) qq, WeChat, DingTalk, etc. Not to mention other apps (wps is also a large resource consumer), these are all used at the same time. I quite agree with what @ Anonymous45 # 15 said, "When you need the CPU to work at full capacity, the CPU turns down instead." This is true. To be honest, I wanted to change to mbp 2020 m1 before changing to mba 2020 m1. I regret it now. I should have changed to mbp then. In addition to the reasons mentioned by brother sumu, another very important reason is the appearance. The reason why I have been using mba is its appearance, which is a laptop that conforms to my inner aesthetic. Time now, to be honest, I don't want to change my plane now, for the following reasons 1: Bangs, 2: Appearance, 3: My current machine can still fight. But if I have to change it, I will choose mba m4 32G + 1T 16G is not enough 24G is definitely not enough 32G is barely enough I can't stand the appearance of mpb. If Old Qiao is here, the appearance will never be designed to look like this bird
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Anonymous84 May 29, 2025Don't buy air, there is no fan, it will burn like hell after half a day of use
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Anonymous85 May 29, 2025Let's switch to win. I have more choices when I want to play games. I have an m2 air, and most of the time I eat ash.
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Anonymous86 May 29, 2025No, the most important thing is that there is no fan. Who knows when it heats up? It will really be useless
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Anonymous87 May 29, 2025It's best to be a pro. If you don't have enough budget, you can buy an old pro. My m1 has been using it so much
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Anonymous88 May 29, 2025Although the m chip generates low heat, even with the passive heat dissipation of the m1 + 13-inch mba, under high load conditions in summer, there will still be overheating and frequency reduction. It's really just a weak small fan that can solve the problem. It's recommended to go to pro.
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Anonymous89 May 29, 2025Get on 16 +512 659 9 The front end is currently sufficient
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Anonymous90 May 29, 2025Most of the upstairs have never used pure yy, right??? When it comes to air, it's stereotype. I have been using air since the first generation in 2020. The person in charge told you that this configuration can last for 5 years without any problem. If the hard drive is not enough, it can be expanded, but it basically does not affect performance.
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Anonymous90 May 29, 2025And if you use 15 inches, you don't need an external monitor in many scenarios, which is small and versatile.
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Anonymous91 May 29, 202514 inch pro 32G + 512G 13099
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Anonymous92 May 29, 2025If the high load time is less, the air's heat dissipation will be fine. If it doesn't work, you can add a heat dissipation base with a fan. The hard disk of 256 is not enough, so expand the capacity or hang the urine bag.
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Anonymous10889 May 29, 2025The 16 512 Java development provided by the company is enough (idea two projects, WeChat, Feishu, surge, obr, database, apifox browser, etc.) It usually doesn't heat up because they are all in air-conditioned rooms, and the battery life is very long when traveling on business. Usually, the company directly connects it to the monitor. It's not hot either, at most, the memory can be exchanged to be larger
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Anonymous94 May 29, 2025Heat dissipation anxiety
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Anonymous6213 May 29, 2025If your wallet allows it, still go to Pro. Otherwise, after the Air is in hand, it is not impossible to remove the back cover and add a heat dissipation sticker to export the heat to the D side, and add a notebook stand with a fan. Mine is an M1 Max, and the fan still spins a lot when the load is high.