is MacBook Pro 18gb enough

[hot meadow]

Ģood evening all. I am looking into purchasing a new laptop for game development (coding via vs studio, 3d modeling via blender and game development via Unity).

Is new 16" MacBook Pro M3 Pro chip, 18gb unified memory enough? Or should I choose 36gb?

[brazen jewel]

A few months ago I was using a macbook Air m2 with 16 gb for modeling in blender and for coding , and It was more than enough

the 1 thing I cant asure is the performance on Unity

[tough rock]

Be sure to check out this thread
https://discord.com/channels/489222168727519232/1249155543264657408

[tribal coral]

yes, it's enough! I'm using an M1 with 16gb and I don't experiment big issue/wait for 3 years now. Of course, if you're suing Baking lightmapp, the baking will be shorter!

[visual hemlock]

That's more than enough - I use a MacBook Pro M3 16gb for blender modelling (i'm not good tho) Coding in VS, and Game Development in unity and it runs perfectly without the fans on

[dry portal]

16g is pretty limited. You should not have any issue if you are doing small stuff which is what I am expecting, but if you get in production you get be bottleneck quickly.

Here without doing anything what the memory consumption looks like:https://ibb.co/yfxHKnB

[tribal coral]

With 3 editors launched at the same time! With two on a MacM1 + firefox + Mail => no problem

[dry portal]

It is 1 editor. Unity use multiple processes.