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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1923110" data-attributes="member: 396914">The difference between your ten year old machine and a new Mx machine is significant. The way Apple has engineered the storage and memory management now means that you don't really need the massive RAM that used to be required. And given that there is no speed difference now between RAM and SSD (both are part of the same integrated storage in the Mx machines) means that even if there is occasional swap being used, it will be at RAM speeds because it's all the same integrated storage. Ditto for video storage. All in the single integrated storage pool. So, before you blow the budget, you might want to do some analysis of your actual usage now, using Activity Monitor, or any other analytical tool you might want to, and size the new machine accordingly. Apple Silicon ain't your papa's Intel machine...And that backup of your phone can be pointed to an external drive, instead of taking up the internal storage. You can search for what to do to make that work. I've done that and now my iPhone backups are on an external drive working quite nicely.</blockquote>