not to mention m3 pro that screams upselling
6 performance cores? lmao
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Apple Announces New 14-Inch and 16-Inch MacBook Pro Models With M3 Series Chips
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6 performance cores? lmao
Includes base m3 not m3 pro with 8gb memory
14” M3 MacBook Pro at £1,699 comes with just 8GB of memory, compared to the 16GB on the M2. There’s your price cut folks. You give it all back upgrading 😂
LOL… Less RAM on the cheapest MBPs, whack-ass configs across the board, and still stupid-expensive storage upgrades:
I think it’s because anyone on an M chip isn’t going to be the target audience for this refresh cycle. The audience is going to be Intel upgrades and outright new purchases. Computers weren’t ever meant to have the same upgrade cycle as a phone. They are bigger investments.
This sounds more like an "If you have an Intel Mac, upgrade me now and make us more rich!!!" event rather than anything new and ground-breaking. At least they are catching up to the competition with ray tracing.
Ah ye no multi monitor support too, that's a shame since I'm trying to build a 4-monitor setup made of my current Studio Display + the upcoming Apple XDR 2 or whichever monitors they'll come up with next.
And no OLED either!
I guess M3 is for those who bought late-2020 M1s (like me) or earlier. I may skip this one and wait for the next one after all.
I just bought an M2 MBP in September because my 2017 Intel MBP was no longer supported. It’s very frustrating to see that just a month later I could have gotten an M3 MBP for the same exact price as a machine released just 9 months ago…
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A lot of people wait 3-5 years to upgrade their systems. They are still valid to make references to Intel Macs for those that are waiting the 5 years.
And seriously? M1 was ALL comparisons to Intel Macs.
The other thing they always say is “this is the fastest [device] Apple has ever made”. Yeah no ****. As if they were going to release one that was slower than its predecessor…
Graphics pros may want to, but I don’t see anything compelling me to replace my 16” M1 Pro. It’s already perfect…
8GB RAM in the base 14" MacBook Pro. Typical Apple!
The event was at 2 AM in my timezone. I had to stay up so I can watch it. It was truly worth it 😄
Anyways love the new Space Black color !! And it’s nice to see hardware ray tracing finally coming to Macs now for the first time.
Also, I guess the M3 config in the 14-inch MacBook Pro is supposed to replace the 13-inch TouchBar MacBook Pro. I think it makes more sense this way.
Anyways love the new Space Black color !! And it’s nice to see hardware ray tracing finally coming to Macs now for the first time.
Also, I guess the M3 config in the 14-inch MacBook Pro is supposed to replace the 13-inch TouchBar MacBook Pro. I think it makes more sense this way.
Only Apple has the courage to make the most expensive laptop with 8gb of RAM.
*insane* price hike in Europe, lol. Now the cheapest pro is 2000 Euros. For 8GB of RAM! Is Apple okay? This configuration with the M2 used to be 1300 or so.
For the price of a car.
So the M3 Pro and Max start with 18GB of RAM now, not 16.
Not really. They replaced the 13 Pro with a 14 equivalent so it’s actually a price increase for the equivalent product.
The Pro/Max versions are the same price.
The $1599 model is a little cut back so I don’t feel as bad. Less ram, standard M3 and one less USB port.
This is odd, looking at the Compare models page, the M2 Pro chip had 200GB/s memory bandwidth, while the new M3 Pro only has 150GB/s. Additionally, the M2 Pro had 8 performance + 4 efficiency cores, the M3 Pro has 6 performance + 6 efficiency cores. This is all a bit odd to me. I believe them that the chips are still faster all around, but seeing a lower memory bandwidth and fewer performance cores just strikes me as unexpected.
14 inch MBP M3 and M3 Pro only have 2 Thunderbolt ports? They did a whole shell redesign just to take away a port?
Purposely leaving out the MBA for M3 update so that people would pony up for the MBP with M3.
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Really don't understand 8 GB entry level RAM. Assuming Apple maintains OS support for 5 years, it means Apple will need to ensure the 2028 MacOS update run with 8 GB RAM to continue supporting all the M3 MBP/iMac buyers. This could easily be 2030 if support is for 6 years and the M3 MBA doesn't launch until deep into next year...
Yeah, same for me. I had a 2019 Intel MBP and got an M1 MBP. Huge upgrade and was meant to future proof. Will wait for M5 if this is going to be the upgrade cycle (M2 MBP just came out in January).