How does your personal machine compare to your work laptop? If you were going to get a new personal computer/laptop today, what would you go with?

Just curious as I consider replacing my aging 2016 MacBook Pro as my personal laptop (especially since costs might go up soon for electronics, due to tariffs).

For work, I’ve got a 2019 MacBook Pro. More details below:

  • Personal machine: 2016 MacBook Pro 
    • 13-inch 
    • 2 Thunderbolt ports
    • 2 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5 processor
    • 16 GB memory
    • 250 GB storage
  • Work machine: 2019 MacBook Pro
    • 16-inch
    • 4 Thunderbolt ports
    • 2.6 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7 processor
    • 32 GB memory
    • 500 GB storage

Essentially, I’m thinking of a MacBook Air or MacBook Pro. Not quite sure which specs to go with. I don’t need crazy capabilities at this time for personal hacking/development, but I’d like to be able to build and run stuff locally using stuff like LangGraph to build AI tools.