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This M3 is gonna be very interesting for people who have skipped M1 and M2 altogether and are stuck with Intel machines or no machine at all.
I wish they would loose the notch. Still looks weird. Does not correspond with the menu bar in size and proportion. Once you saw it, you can't unsee it! 😄
That actually would drive sales. Not sure how popular gold was.
Would be neat if that was part of the reason the event is later in the day and so close to Halloween, because they really are releasing a black color. There was a patent some time ago about a 'true black' treatment for Al/Tn.
If I recall, the M2 Pro was supposed to launch in Oct/Nov and got delayed to Q1 2023. I think they want to get back on track with annual fall releases.
Being stuck with a machine that does most of everything you want to do is no bad thing. One of my macs is still an Intel mac, and that’s by choice. It still runs Sonoma and it’s as interesting for me to use as my M2 MacBook Air. And interesting depends on the features and use cases… not so much performance increases.
You buy what you need to do the job, and only when it’s not doing what you need it to do should you really be upgrading (for financial common sense, except if you’re just treating yourself etc).
A titanium mbp would be nice. Either way im glad they are getting updated. Need to purchase a laptop by end of year so one of these will do nicely.
BTO 16" MacBooks have 2-3 weeks delivery date
was less than week in the summer iirc
When the M1 was introduced, Apple did not only focus on performance per watt, but also on pure performance, as they abandoned Intel also for their inability to improve performance for 3 years in a row.
With the M2 Apple has come behind both Intel and AMD in CPU performance, and it has come far away from Nvidia in GPU performance.
Now that they have secured the exclusive for 1 year for the 3nm production, it would be fool for them not to take advantage of that, coming out on top in performance again.
That's why I'm expecting something that no one is expecting, because it seems simply foolish: all the pro lineup upgraded to the M3, including the Mac Studio and Mac Pro.
With the M2 Apple has come behind both Intel and AMD in CPU performance, and it has come far away from Nvidia in GPU performance.
Now that they have secured the exclusive for 1 year for the 3nm production, it would be fool for them not to take advantage of that, coming out on top in performance again.
That's why I'm expecting something that no one is expecting, because it seems simply foolish: all the pro lineup upgraded to the M3, including the Mac Studio and Mac Pro.
That chip won’t be going against the M3 but the M3 Pro and M3 Max if you look at TDP, core count and almost surely price. Qualcomm decided to cherry-pick a comparison with the M2 because it made it look better.
But I think you should wait as the 2024 version is going to be so much better than what you have now. You will regret it!
Well I might have been wrong expecting only iMacs this announcement.... if this turns out true.
But honestly, it's weeeeird. They just updated the MBPs to M2.... very very strange move if they release new ones.
Or maybe they announce new iMacs launching this year and present the new MBPs - launching next year to build the hype? (The M2 Sales were low so this might be a strategy....)
Trying to understand how Apple manipulates masses to increase their sales.
I think it's good to watch an learn. 🤔
But honestly, it's weeeeird. They just updated the MBPs to M2.... very very strange move if they release new ones.
Or maybe they announce new iMacs launching this year and present the new MBPs - launching next year to build the hype? (The M2 Sales were low so this might be a strategy....)
Trying to understand how Apple manipulates masses to increase their sales.
I think it's good to watch an learn. 🤔
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Performance counts for nothing of the software running it doesn’t improve too. Most people who buy Macs don’t buy for speed. I’d rather have an all round well designed and reliable product over having the fastest.
Finally someone mentioned it! It's impossible to unsee it!!!
That would be amazing. I love my Midnight Air, but if a true Black MacBook Pro came out I would bite on that in a heartbeat.
You mean AAA games for that few desparate mac gamers? All serious gamers have PCs or consoles. For any others, Apple Arcade is top of their world.
The negativity bias is as strong as ever on MR and thus Gurman looks inept.
At large, he's very far from that even if this was wrong.
My guess they want to have both the 13 and 15 updated at the same time, but they can't do that just yet since the 15" came out after the 13 was updated, so maybe a sync release in spring-wwdc time.
I actually do expect Apple to elaborate more on the gaming focus we saw for iPhones 15 Pro.
I expect a lot of "gotta go M3 for the ray tracing" sentiment in this presentation.
Maybe Apple's first genuine step towards impressing gamers enough to sell them on a MacBook Pro?
Apple Arcade+, it’s coming. They’ll aim to take a slice of the console game market. Loads of people have Macs, you can do so much on them that you can’t or won’t on a console. If you can play games on it too, it will open up a much bigger area of Apple’s services market.
my guess too
the Resident Evil 4 is gonna be an universal purchase for iPhone, iPad and Mac
if M3 is RT capable i'm pretty sure they will show it on stage