No wonder they were happy to show this at around midnight in Europe… you’d not miss much at all.
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Apple Event Live Blog: MacBook Pro and iMac Updated With New M3 Chip Family
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It's just hard for me to get excited. Great it's faster than the last gen. But it's become a tightly controlled appliance rather than a personal computer. It's no different from Toyota announcing a new Corolla every year with slightly better fuel mileage.
Honestly, these machines are such mature technologies, even with the new M3s, that they can‘t be exciting. These just aren‘t worth announcing in an “event” any more. A 20 minute announcement video in the middle of the day would have been fine. Or even a press release. There’s just nothing they can really do at this point. After all, my M1 Mac Mini is still running great, and I bought the 15 inch M2 Air this past summer. I have no need of an M3.
Almost makes me wonder whether they had originally planned to announce something major at a daytime event, but that major item got delayed, so rather than have an embarrassingly short "regular" event they thought it wouldn't be so obviously underwhelming as a short evening special.
And yes, the M3 chips are a nice step up from the M1 and M2, but once you pull back the marketing-speak the amount of substantive innovation discussed was really quite meager. Except I now know that a particular color of laptop is professional.
And yes, the M3 chips are a nice step up from the M1 and M2, but once you pull back the marketing-speak the amount of substantive innovation discussed was really quite meager. Except I now know that a particular color of laptop is professional.
Because that is all the memory lanes supported by the M2 and M3 chips. You have to go to the Pro chips to get more memory lanes.
Scary fast..
..damn straight it was. 30mins and it’s cya later!!
..damn straight it was. 30mins and it’s cya later!!
Let the b!chfest begin...
They must be desperate for Mac sales. I can't think of why else that would have been an "event."
Also basically begging Intel users to upgrade was funny lol
Also basically begging Intel users to upgrade was funny lol
Most of the rumors about the event turned out to be true. I love that the new MBPs will be offered in Space Black, long overdue.
I still love my 2021 16” i9 with 64GB RAM.
Started at 1pm my time here, this is my first live Apple event.
Judging by the comments this isn't a standard event.
Judging by the comments this isn't a standard event.
As you can see they kept the same price points, looking at the M3 Pro/Max 14"/16" MBPs the same price points also.
Still its great to see a M1 to M3 Update for the 24" iMac even if the larger model is unannounced/rumored.
Because they want you to buy the Pro with 36GB ram or more.
The new chips for MacBook and iMac (the chip is impressive) with 22 hour battery life, new color, new pricing.. new macOS mentioned