
The code for triald and CoreML is still being written and will be much slower on the Intel CPU vs Apple Silicon You might even trade it in with Apple for an easy $ if you don’t want to reuse or resell it yourself. In your case, the 2018 model (as will most Intel based Macs except the iMac Pro and Mac Pro) will likely decline in value pretty quickly now and the M1 will likely hold resale value for much longer. I love Apple refurbished - it saves me the cost of AppleCare typically and the quality has been stellar in my years of seeing them ordered.



Here is a MacBook Air handing it to two Intel “workstations” in a benchmark. I can’t benchmark your workload in detail, but TensorFlow should have good official coverage from Apple running TensorFlow on Apple Silicon / Metal.Īlso I would trade up in a heartbeat from the machines you list.
