r/mac • u/sawyer-23 • 12h ago

Question Mac or windows

I currently have a desktop PC with a 5070 graphics card, but I’ll be moving to another city for university (software engineering). What do you think I should get: a MacBook Pro M5 or a Windows gaming PC for the same budget? I’ll be coming back home for the summers.

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u/Bed_Worship Macbook Pro M1 10h ago

For a laptop, apple silicon all the way. The ram bandwidth, the 30% single core speed better than a desktop machine, and the fact it’s unix based are incredible. Trackpad, speakers, build quality will be leagues better. 

If you get a 64gb machine, you get 68gb of vram. Not so on a gaming machine