Let’s discuss another use case, News, Creator and Media professionals. News, Creator and Media Professional (Includes TheVerge Too, lol) MacBook Pro 16-inch is the winner in first usage category for: Most demanding development needs. Surface Book 3 15-inch is the winner in first usage category for: Average most common development needs. Plus point is you can run Windows on Mac, not vice versa (without any hacks). Hence MacBook Pro 16-inch is clear winner when it comes to be as developer friendly as you can imagine. If you need more, you can upgrade to 64GB RAM or a Core i9 8 core processor or super fast Graphic card or all together.

The base model CPU is much better than Surface Book 3. On the other side, MacBook Pro 16-inch offers up gradable CPU, RAM and Graphics. Most importantly, you can’t upgrade CPU while buying it, all locked down to a single CPU model. Also, Surface Book 3 SSD is not as fast as MacBook Pro 16-inch. But I can see RAM & CPU are a limiting factor if you want to run 2–3 virtual machines and want to compile large chunk of code frequently. If you are a developer, Surface Book 3 with core i7, 16 GB RAM and Nvidia graphics card (you also have option of NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000) should serve needs for most. Lets discuss some use cases, starting with professional (Media / Developers).

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