macbook for design stuff

[Heenaaah]

my work- printing designs for large print sizes like billboards, booth designs, web design, video editing, after effects bit of 3D, want to future proof for atleast 6 years
purpose of getting mac- portability, better workflow, industry integration, design

right now I am super confused between two configurations in max chip I am leaning towards a 14 inch max with 36 gb ram but somewhere I am thinking that this amount of ram will lag in the future and affect my professional workflow, like 4k video exports, 3d renders or adding effects to big size illustrator files (somethings I face issue in my current windows laptop with 16gb ram and rtx 4070 laptop), then getting a 48gb ram in 14 inch what the apple salesperson advised me to avoid due to heating issues he suggested 16 inches for this configuration

now with 16 inches my portability will suffer and a 48gb ram is way over my budget to afford

looking for cases where you face problems with 14 inch macbook pro max so I can make an informed choice basis RAM

[Monika Gause]

I see you have asked the same question in the After Effects board, which is what I wanted to propose. I think the bottlenecks would be expected more on the video and 3D side.

I have a Macbook 14" M1 with 32 GB of RAM. The thing is 4 years old now and it's a nice machine. I'm not creating super huge Illustrator files though - sometimes I need to open huge files created by other people (I remember a 2 GB .AI file which was set up in an unfortunate way; I think it was a blend between 3 3D objects or something. That one took some time to open).

I'm doing a bit of 3D (also not too intricate) and some silghtly larger InDesign files. Everything is nice and smooth.

I totally feel your point about 16" and portability. Exactly the reason why I'm sticking with 14".

[Heenaaah]

so you think a 36gb ram would suffice video editing? apple salesperson said 48gb on 14 inch could cause heating issues and to reconfirm it I also checked online, a few people had same complaints.

[Monika Gause]

I don't know what video really needs and I hope the people in the After Effects forum have some answers for you. There should be at least some who work on mobile devices.