MacBook Pro 15 2015 vs MacBook Pro 16. What is the increase with a heavy office load?

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Good afternoon, connoisseurs!

Now I'm sitting on MBP 15 mid 2015 2.8 i7 / 16 / R9 / 512. I drive it in a very unusual application - the main office work tool. At the same time, it ALWAYS has about 100 tabs open in 10 windows in Safari (a couple of which are extremely voluminous Google Sheets of 5-8 sheets with 8000 filled lines each), a couple of large Excel tables with 30-40 linked sheets each, a couple of Word documents, Skype, Cart, WA WEB, of course, mail for 10 active mailboxes, well, in pursuit of Microsoft Remote Desktop. A second FHD monitor is connected, the maximum resolution is also set on the main screen. Until recently, the old man successfully coped with the tasks, but recently, due to the increased amount of data (including online and Excel tables), there have been outright slowdowns during work. Tables in Google docs scroll with delays, and sometimes they even reboot due to, as Safafri writes, "lack of memory" (I looked at the system monitoring - everything is fine in RAM, there is a reserve). Animation (including system) is also with profreezes. When the older 16-inch model with the M1 processor was released, I planned to upgrade to it, but it is not known how much longer to wait, and the prices will be KMK space ...

Do you think replacing my horse with a base 16' will solve the performance problem? If not, what do you recommend? MB Macmini? Or, on new chips, in general, the increase is such that the new 13 ' on M1 will also pull out?

Answer 1

It looks like you just don't have enough RAM.
Take something with 32GB, or better immediately with 64GB.