Blind users, what do you use your specked out macs for?

This is my second Mac, so I guess that says something right there. For one thing, I found a very good web-based journaling service in 2014 and I still use it to this day. Actually somebody on a gaming-related forum recommended this particular platform for long-form journaling. He had nothing but good things to say about it, and I concur. It also works very well with VoiceOver on the iPhone. Besides journaling, I do email on here. But lately I've had a bit of trouble with Mac Mail and am trying to figure that out. I also listen to music on here and some podcasts. I have a lot in my music library. I have tried Apple Music on here too, and it seems to work well.

I did have a MBP but found it a little heavy to drag about and swapped out for an MBA m2, which does everything well with 16 GB ram. The only thing I'd say I've lost out on is in the speed of slicing objects for 3D printing. It's not night and day, the M chips are heavy lifters as it is, but a difference between maybe ten seconds and 40, which is really not much of a problem. If it were a repeated task it might become frustrating, but if it's once in a while, it's not a problem.

And, I imagine that's the key point. All of the modern macs are very capable (aside from voiceover), and I think you can do pretty much the same thing on an M1 MBA as you can on a specked out M4 MBP, with maybe a few exceptions for huge data sets, it's the regularity of performing these tasks though. If you want to render some audio or video once a month, it's not an issue, if you are doing it every day, you need that grunt under the hood.

Mostly use mine for xcode development, although having plenty of ram also helps when useing java based IDE's such as android studio. Also use it for LLM inference compute although that work will probably be distributed among a couple of the new mac mini's using EXO.

That should be enough ram to run a small country, or maybe even a medium sized one ... 🤯

I have a m1 max, 64gb, 2tb MBP.
I use it as a music production workstation. Ideally I'd change over to an m3 MBA wish base specs, and a M4 Pro mac mini with 64GB ram, m4 pro and 2tb but I'd have to sink more money than I'd like to to change over so I'm keeping it.

I do some light video editing in iMovie with my M2 Pro machine. In addition, I also appear on broadcast TV with my iPhone 14 Pro and Sennheiser USB mic connected. Is it overkill? yes, but it is future proof somewhat. My next machine will have 32 GB of RAM. 16 is certainly a quantum leap from 8, but 32 will be just enough to get me into trouble.

Hi,
I mostly use my 2022 M2 MBP 14 inch for AI voice conversions with Replay, demix pro for song stem splitting, and audio editing in reaper. I take it almost everywhere.

I use my 2021 M1 MacBook Pro with a 10-core M1 Pro Max CPU and 10-core GPU, 8 TB SSD, and 64 GB RAM primarily for web and software development, to run Windows and Linux virtual machines, to use audio transcription apps like MacWhisper, and for high-end 3D gaming by way of GameCube, Wii, PS2, PS3, and other emulators (i.e. Dolphin, PCSX2, RPCS3, and more). Even though the machine is three years old, it still feels brand new thanks to the power of Apple Silicon and will still net me a cool several thousand dollars when I eventually want to sell it to fund an even better machine in a few years.