For a "lighter user", probably not a huge difference. If you don't feel slowed down by the M1 Pro's performance, it's probably not all that worth the upgrade for you. For folks who do heavy software development, graphics processing, design/CAD, music production etc. – absolutely they will appreciate the speed boost. It's all down to your usage.
At least the memory on that is user upgradeable though. Can't do that with a Mac anymore.
If it makes you feel better I’m in the return window for the m2 Pro model I just bought. But I got it about $300 off, so I’m just going to keep it rather than return for the M3 Pro. It’s still blazing fast for what I do (photo and video editing, and word processing for work) and just not worth the hassle for 10% or so more speed. The extra 2 GB RAM gave me a little pause but I haven’t had any issues with that anyway.
Well they also didn't update the Mac mini, which has the M2 Pro.
Client doesn't upgrade memory after the fact. Against the companies policies as they need the exact same config for all cases. They need the ability to swap the device at any given time, so they constantly have about 15 of them ready in storage.
I wonder if the Mini won't be considered "Pro" anymore? If they'll just phase out putting the newest chip in it? I guess time will tell.
Lol right? Why would it be odd to put a product out before the holiday season? It would be odd not to, if they're ready.
Do it today. Apple’s return window is 14-days. They haven’t extended it for Christmas yet, which would go until the end of January.
well my M1 max is far too slow.
AV1 decoding was just in software before. It is now on-die in hardware.
100% agree, I figure I will be fully satisfied with my 14" M1Pro Macbook Pro for a couple more years which means I will be interested in purchasing an M5 or M6 based Macbook Pro certainly not an M3 based. Kinda weird the memory limit on the M3Pro is only 36GB this means it has only gone up 4GB in two generations.
It's definitely a desire to push the rip-off upgrade pricing and ladder pricing dynamic (rather than spend £200 extra to upgrade to 16 GB, wouldn't you rather spend £400 extra and get 18 GB alongside more CPU and GPU cores?), but is very shortsighted to the software engineering challenges of getting the 2028/9 MacOS release to run with 8 GB RAM. Still, that's 5 years away and it's likely Tim will have checked out by then so it will some one else's problem...
