Apple Event Live Blog: MacBook Pro and iMac Updated With New M3 Chip Family

[Candlelight]

Why compare it to M1? It looks better than compared to M2?

 

[MrGimper]

The “scary” comes when they announce the price.

 

[achtung!]

boring event. only focused on specs and benchmark. looks like a microsoft event.

 

[Kobayagi]

The M3 family is the most powerful family of chips Apple has ever made.

Well, it would have been awkward if it wasn't, wouldn't it?

 

[Aston441]

In a scifi movie this guy would be building the doomsday weapon. What accent is that? French?


eta nevermind, when he said "incredible" obviously German

 

[Fuzzball84]

All comparisons are primarily against M1 😂

 

[Ghengis LeMond]

M3 GPU's add mesh shading and ray tracing.

The M3 rendering would be 2.5x compared to the original M1.

Might be in the range of 3070ti.

 

[klasma]

I don’t think Apple wants their CEO and leader looking silly

Well, they failed in that.

 

[jillpygok]

Can't wait to play Angry Birds, the most demanding game of all time.

Why compare it to M1? It looks better than compared to M2?

Marginal upgrade and 50%, 60% sound better than 10% or 15%

 

[zachz]

No audio here on Apple.com

its automatically muted, you might have to unmute it in the video box thing

 

[Realityck]

The M3 family has hardware AV1 decoding now.

 

[Kobayagi]

I don’t know how you folks in the later time zones are still awake. They would have lost me already

1AM here, I'll give them 5 more min, baseless comparisons are boring.

 

[dumastudetto]

These state-of-the-art technologies are great for streaming YouTube streams. Good to know.

 

[KPOM]

Only comparing to the M1, not M2…….

They are showing the M2 in the charts, though.

 

[ipedro]

This may be too tech nerdy for Prime Time.

 

[GizmoDVD]

All comparisons are primarily against M1 😂

Probably because the iMac only has a M1 chip and the M2 Pros are not very old...most are upgrading from M1s

 

[abowlby]

What is it when you dunk on the dunk you already dunked on someone with? Cuz that is what this is.

 

[zachz]

Only comparing to the M1, not M2…….

I'd assume there's a larger population who would be upgrading from M1 than the M2 devices

 

[Orange Bat]

So he’s saying it’s better than….the M1?

 

[mdriftmeyer]

Note: the M3 comparisons are against an Intel laptop chip which isn't close to the Phoenix Zen 4. Looking forward to Zen 5 at CES 2024.

 

[TigerNike23]

Slap this on the Mac Pro then, based on RAM limits alone.

 

[jillpygok]

I'm gonna condense this one presentation into 5mins, put it inside Apple App Store as a surefire fix for insomnia.

 

[Fuzzball84]

Only comparing to the M1, not M2…….

They always used to compare against previous gen… now it’s against a CPU or device several generations back. Because they know that these chips are only a huge processing leap for people on hardware a few years or more older.

 

[dumastudetto]

Insane 128GB RAM.
M3 Max 80% faster than M1 Max.
Giant leap in performance.
3nm
Next-gen architecture.
Most advanced chips ever built for a personal computer.

 

[Billy_Bob]

I don't understand any of this technical talk, show me the real innovation, show me the colours!

I listened to the first 10 minutes without having a screen in front of me, and I could barely understand him through his accent. Now that I'm looking a a screen, the subtitles help, but without them I was lost. This guy may be a great manager, but he really shouldn't be an English-language presenter.