It’s relatively simple to choose a laptop model to buy from Apple, whether your biggest constraint is budget (that’s what the MacBook Neo is for), weight (MacBook Air) or you need the MacBook Pro‘s power and connections. Once you’ve narrowed it down that far, though, figuring out how to configure it can become baffling.
As far as I can tell, there are over 50 combinations of viable options for just CPUs, memory and storage across both the 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro models, 33 for the 14-inch and 21 for the 16-inch. And your buying decision may be complicated by constraints imposed by the SoC design, notably with respect to memory, as well as the typical configuration limitations, like having to bump up a processor class from what you might otherwise need — or want to pay for — if you want 8TB of storage or 64GB of memory.
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