Hey all, was looking at getting a new machine soon. I’ve been trying to figure out what the best long term investment between all of these are. I am going to be going to university in the next year or so, so i’ll be using the mac for school and every day purposes. The prices for these macs are as follows: M3 Pro - $2500 M2 Pro on the refurbished site - $2175 M3 - $2200. (CAD)

I would spec each to have 16 gigs of ram and 512 gigs of storage. (Obviously the M3 Pro has the 18 gigs of ram). I’m torn on if I should save money, get the refurbished m2 pro for cheaper than either of the M3 machines. Or should I spend the extra 300ish and get the M3 Pro. Or… if I don’t need such a powerful laptop and get the newer cpu with slightly nicer screen but less power. (also better battery life I believe). I won’t be using any super demanding apps or anything like that, most likely just using the mac for productivity like MS365 and email and browsing. What do you guys think?!