I meant that I don’t care about battery life/speakers/screen, it’s only a tiebreaker if all other things (price, CPU sustained perf) are mostly equal.

I missed the memory part indeed, going up to 64GB changes a lot, I haven’t found a HP g1a with ~48GB of memory which is what I think is the good amount for…

…My budget which is 3000-3500 EUR

Indeed I’m in France

Thanks for those links, I knew GB was flawed (mostly because it’s user-provided data, if nothing else), but had no idea about alternatives

Currently 260k loc in the workspace

So there’s this fun thing in rust where if you don’t have exactly the same feature set for all components of the workspace when you go to a subfolder for a component you can invalidate cached artifacts and trigger a lot of jobs. Same thing when you check out a branch then compile. And as I have a fair volume of crates in the workspace, changing mtime on the files for a checkout means I still have 5~10 minutes each time I want to run tests locally (a fresh run takes ~30 minutes to ~45}

I looked at phoronix benchmarks for the 13 Pro first, but I wasn’t impressed (even acknowledging that Phoronix should have asked for the Ryzen one)

I’m not even using it for AI or heavy local inference or so. I just happen to easily fill up and use 40-is GB, and when I want ram in a package that performs well CPU wise it gets giga expensive fast :(