The Right M2 Mac For Creatives

An opinionated viewpoint on the right M2 Mac for flutter app development.

This is an in-depth look at what M2 Mac you should get for your studio. While my use case is building flutter apps and creating design images and videos, it does line up with your creative work-loads.

General Purpose Computer vs Creative Purpose Computer

Intel and AMD PCs generally are general purpose computers which when used in creative workflows one has to keep in mind the amount of RAM to add and the GPU upgrade to get it to work for medium level creative workflows. And both Intel and AMD have been late to the party of developing neural engine chips so that ML can be used in the video editing context.

Side Note: With AI, it is not the LLM that one needs to pay attention to. Instead, it is the applied ML in the form of software using the hardware platform ML in the form of a CPU-soc neural engine.

Apple went a different route in combining the graphics chip, neural engine chip, and the CPU chip on one SoC chip package with unified RAM for high memory speed throughput with both the CPU and the GPU. While the mobile and desktop Macs target different consumers, they are at the core creative purpose computers.