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Alleged New MacBook Pro Box Image Surfaces on China's Weibo

i think this leaked box seems legit, it’s a big suprise but it makes sens in a way knowing that m2 pro\max were originally planned to be release Q4 2022…

one thing strikes me if you change the photos and fiddle with the sliders you see a Dynamic Island more than a notch … I will be interested to see if Dynamic Island is coming ….

Apparently it does cos if you are on iPad os beta and using it near a Mac , when the cursor reach the edge of the display you can see on the iPad side an updated MacBook Pro icon with Dynamic Island, still better than the notch but I wonder the usage for it on a Mac ?

Thx god I can send back the last M2 Max Mbp I bought on apple website so I can return it if m3 max is really out .
 

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b.la said:
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.
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yep

people still think that apple is going after PC gamers. like, RGB LEDs, cases with windows, overclocked everywhere, mods and hacks for every game.

this crowd will never ever switch to Mac, even if it turns out to be a better and cheaper platform.

apple is going after casual/console gamers.
 
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b.la said:
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.
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I have heard about mac gaming comming quite often. It has never happened even under Intel/AMD technology which was the same as for windows developers. But we will see, with a strong iPhone community on the same platform there could definitely be a market for it.
 
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klasma said:
From the wallpaper, the MBP will double as an oven. Apparently the M3 Pro can get rather hot. That will be convenient now that winter is coming.
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It really, really, really does look like an oven. Will be hilarious if it does run hot… I wonder if it comes with a baking tray or a set of pans.

A 3 kW power adapter!
 
Fuzzball84 said:
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.
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For a lot of Pro users pure performance counts. In its history, often Apple wanted to be on top of that, and every time they changed their processor architecture was because they wanted to jump on top, and they touted to be the best. This happened with the PowerPC and the M1. Also, coming behind a processor developed by Apple ex employees (the snapdragon) in both pure performance and performance per watt is not an option.
 
Am I the only one who finds the wallpaper absolutely ugly?
I don't want to believe that Apple uses such a boring image...

For this reason I think this image is a fake.
 
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Is the graphic a very stylized, very abstract m3? Three down strokes, three to the right.
 
tonmischa said:
Am I the only one who finds the wallpaper absolutely ugly?
I don't want to believe that Apple uses such a boring image...

For this reason I think this image is a fake.
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Was it you that also complained about the iPhone 4 notches? Saying it was fake and Apple would never release an iPhone with notches? Steve Jobs scolded you. May god rest his soul
 
As excited as I am for this event. I DON'T WANT IT YET!!!! I just got this MBPro 16" M2 MAX. :oops:
So, yes I'm being selfish. Maybe I can return it if it is in stock at launch. 👻
 
This wallpaper... It's like cheap digital art generated in bulk! It's hard for me to accept that this is the exclusive wallpaper of the M3 Pro Macbook.
 
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You know what, I'm team real on this one

Color scheme matches the invite, and it's very "Apple" and less some of the worse fan renders that look hokey. When the PS5 slim slot design leaked and them someone showed it this quickly after, I also thought that was real because of how little time had passed, and think this is real too. Was right on the first one, we'll see.
 
b.la said:
I can’t help but think there’s another reason for this update. Apple typically releases a product so quickly when there’s an issue with the current gen being compatible with an upcoming direction the company is moving in. I’m thinking AAA games will be announced as coming to Mac soon given the GPU improvements in the A17 that the M3 will be based off.
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For AAA games, it has to be more than hardware. Where's the money? Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo put enormous money in subsidizing the development of AAA games, buying game studios, employing large game developer staffs, etc. How much does Apple spend like that? How many game studios has Apple purchased?

AAA gaming is not a "build it and they will come" proposition. If someone would put up enough money, extinct machines like Atari ST or Commodore 64 could get an AAA game.

When you see an AppleTV+ type allocation of money (AKA a few BILLION) & dedicated staff explicitly for gaming, expect AAA games for Apple tech. Until then, it's only an ever-rolling fantasy. Much, MUCH more lucrative AAA gaming pastures on the other platforms. Just like Apple, those companies follow the money.
 
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ApplesAreSweet&Sour said:
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?
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Gamers need to see the games. Ray tracing- while new to Mac- was new to gaming hardware more than a decade or two ago. I recall Ray Tracing on Amiga in 1986. Remember this ray-traced guy...


Show the must-have, must-play games on Mac and gamers may come. Show hardware capable of games if they are ever developed and gamers will continue playing ray-traced games on hardware they've owned for 5-10 or more years. Fool me once... shame on you. Fool me 10 times...
 
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Setting aside the many AAA developers which have their own in-house engine, Unity and Unreal Engine make porting to Mac trivial, yet the vast majority of those games simply aren't released for Mac.

The big problem is to demonstrate that there's a significant market for games on Mac. That's a complicated issue, but yes I think Apple Silicon GPUs are a hugely important part of that. Even if Apple does nothing else, that market will naturally grow every year as old Intel Macs with terrible integrated GPUs get replaced.
 
Why so many people kiss this guy's...feet?
Does he have secrets on them?

He says one thing, then the opposite, then the first thing. When eventually one of the two happen, oh look he was right!

Are you kidding me?
 
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