Apple Announces New 14-Inch and 16-Inch MacBook Pro Models With M3 Series Chips

[jlc1978]

Why do they keep comparing to M1 instead of M2? 😂

Older machine owners more likely to be upgrading.

 

[phillytim]

”Scary Fast” and “Scary Expensive” should have been the by line. Basically the same machines with faster silicon and a black option. Am I really understanding this correctly? My wife and I nearly fell off our chairs laughing when we watched Apple enthuse over the new color option. It was comical the amount screen time and enthusiasm given to a new color. I am sorry but although theses are very powerful machines they are not something I can get excited about and my wife and I are not running into serious performance issues with our M1 Pro and M1 Max 16” machines. If you are on a 2019 Intel machine these are a no brainer to consider, maybe, although I would look at the previous generation M1 and M2 based machines for much much better value.

This event seemed rushed and ill considered. The new 3 nm technology in the M3 series of chips is groundbreaking but we need more than this for a new machine. Plus they fluffed the much needed peripheral upgrades (mouse design is ludicrous and they need to replace the lightening cables) and iMac spec bump. Overall an odd announcement and lacking anything really exciting unfortunately. I know the engineers working on the M3 must be annoyed by such comments but new laptops and desktops need more than just be faster than before for the customer to be enthused to upgrade and go through the pain of moving into a new machine while realizing their old 2 or 3 year old machine is worth virtually nothing in part exchange.

And, Tim Cook should have been dressed as a vampire, for all of the money-sucking out of a $1600 8GB "Pro" machine! 🧛‍♂️

I feel no remorse or FOMO, for having bought my M2 Air a few months ago.

 

[soloact]

Unless someone can point to specs disproving it, the M2 max just became the most powerful space gray Apple laptop.

 

[jhwalker]

The 14" MBP with M3 Max, 48Gb RAM and, 1Tb SSD seems VERY attractive at $3.7k.

Probably more than I need (considering I recently upgraded to an M2 MBA), but what a portable powerhouse

 

[dead flag blues]

Meh, I'll hang onto my 16" M1.

 

[haydn!]

Unless someone can point to specs disproving it, the M2 max just became the most powerful space gray Apple laptop.

If colour is a priority factor when buying a $2k+ Pro notebook, then I guess so... but that new black is 😍

 

[seanqi]

Well, if you give a 2000 euro "Pro" machine 8GB of ram (which was already standard in the base MBP from 2014!), support for only 1 external screen, and upgrades cost at least 4 times as much as you would pay as a consumer for the part (SSD or Ram) itself, people will be complaining. But yes, let's just cheer Apple on. With the limited external screen support and 8GB starting ram, for which "pro" is this MBP?

It’s for the pro wannabes

 

[Jacoblee23]

Do yall think just the m3 -pro will get the slower ssd or the m3 pro-pro for 2,000 will also get the slower ssd too just like with the base m2 pro?

 

[SolarSailer120]

And, Tim Cook should have been dressed as a vampire, for all of the money-sucking out of a $1600 8GB "Pro" machine! 🧛‍♂️

I feel no remorse or FOMO, for having bought my M2 Air a few months ago.

Times like this I remember why I follow sites like MR for upcoming rumored product info. I made an informed buying decision ahead of time

 

[mrat93]

The $1,999 model actually has 2GB of RAM more than last time.

Which is even more weird to me. That 2GB of extra RAM could make a huge difference in performance and longevity in base models which start at 8GB.

 

[applesed]

Is the 16 incher any lighter? It's such a brick!

 

[phillytim]

Which is even more weird to me. That 2GB of extra RAM could make a huge difference in performance and longevity in base models which start at 8GB.

Apple is no longer interested in extending the life of a machine; that does not contribute to its future $4 Trillion value for it shareholders.

 

[DaveWil]

The 14" MBP with M3 Max, 48Gb RAM and, 1Tb SSD seems VERY attractive at $3.7k.

Probably more than I need (considering I recently upgraded to an M2 MBA), but what a portable powerhouse

You may want to look at the reviews first. I found it interesting that the speed comparisons for the 14" pro were against the 13" pro and not against the M1, M2 14" pro.

 

[applesed]

Incremental updates. Nothing groundbreaking. No need to upgrade from M2 MacBook Pros. In fact even the M1 MacBook Pros are still very powerful.

after all that fanfare about the 3 nanometer manufacturing process, smh.

 

[Falhófnir]

It felt weird presentation never seen so much comparison vs an Intel-Mac and they kept going on about how fast vs Intel-mac.. of course its going to be 11x faster.. there must be a lot of users still using Intel.

Not much gaming demo that people expected so not sure why the change of event time..

There certainly will be given Apple Silicon is only 2-3 years old, or even less depending on what sort of machine you want. Macs should be lasting well over 2-3 years, so there's bound to still be huge number of people yet to make the jump.

 

[joecomo]

One of my clients just ordered a bunch of these. 8GB of RAM and 256GB SSD for nearly $2,000

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yeah these are crappy corporate computers: purchasing will be happy about the price and HR will be bragging about the cool and shiny Apple Computers the employees get …

 

[Thisismattwade]

I feel no remorse or FOMO, for having bought my M2 Air a few months ago.

Absolutely. You've got a great machine.

 

[joecomo]

yeah these are crappy corporate computers: purchasing will be happy about the price and HR will be bragging about the cool and shiny Apple Computers the employees get …

upps - didn’t read the link - these were actually thinkpads. 20 years ago these were great machines …

 

[turbineseaplane]

I think I’m just gonna wait for a woot deal on a 15 inch MacBook Air M2

 

[Shaggymax]

Okay now i'm feeling the FOMO...

 

[jlc1978]

upps - didn’t read the link - these were actually thinkpads. 20 years ago these were great machines …

Yea, in the IBM days they were the corporate workhorse. Solid machines, traveled well and said IBM so purchasing never complained much about price...

 

[jennyp]

This feels like a slap in the face to anyone who bought an M2 Pro/Max. Yes, something new is always around the corner but releasing the huge refresh the very same year?!

Hm yeah can't help feeling that a little, even with my M2 Max 96GB 2TB!!

 

[cannono]

If I’m coming from an Intel 2018 base model, should I care about the difference between 12CPU/18GPU M3 Pro and the M3 Max for video editing?

Like if I’m not sure I need it and don’t do 3D work, am I probably a good fit for the upper M3 Pro chip?

 

[CarAnalogy]

8GB RAM in the base 14" MacBook Pro. Typical Apple!

Oh so pro!

 

[Apple_Robert]

This feels like a slap in the face to anyone who bought an M2 Pro/Max. Yes, something new is always around the corner but releasing the huge refresh the very same year?!

You shouldn’t feel slighted by Apple releasing new computers unless…
You bought your current Mac as a status symbol instead of a computer (read: tool) to achieve needs / wants or work related tasks.