No, it is not.
They are $1049.99 right now, new at amazon.com https://www.amazon.com/Apple-2023-M...n-type:2224371011&rnid=2224369011&s=pc&sr=1-2
Apple can choose to give you both. They just know that certain people loves the little bone that Apple gives their users.
I compared the prices and they generally upped it in France by about 100€ relative to M2 chips.
Do you need the Intel for any reason? Otherwise a pro laptop is faster than that. Buy one and get a new desktop in a couple years.
I would say the best reason to keep around an Intel Mac is for Boot Camp. While Microsoft does have an ARM version of Windows 11 that can run in Parallels or Crossover, etc. the vast majority of Windows programs are still written for x86/x64. That ARM version of Windows has an x86/x64 translator/emulator that will slow down the performance of programs written for the Intel instruction set. Apple has its equivalent in Rosetta 2 to translate programs written for Intel. If you want faster running Windows programs, the 2019 Intel Macs are the way to go. Otherwise, I see no advantages to Intel over Apple Silicon unless the Intel model still serves you well and you can’t afford an upgrade.
I would say no, ARM is still the way to go for future processors. CISC was considered rather dead for a while with Intel wallowing in bad chips with mediocre performance gains year on year. Intel took some rather big performance jumps in the last two generations for two reasons: one is that they abandoned their own 10nm and 7nm processes and went with TSMC to make their chips, and two, they started adopting ARM approaches in their chip design, such as creating p-cores and e-cores. In prior designs, they used only what we would consider p-cores. Intel is moving towards ARM-like processes because it’s the only way they can find to increase performance. They were pretty much dead-ended otherwise.
If the M3 really is faster than M2 at a given level (and we'll know once it's tested, not before), this represents some interesting optimizations based on a greater understanding of how the computers work in the field. I'm actually impressed.
They aren’t a lot faster in any mobile chip. The single threaded scores for M3 should be good. M3 Max should be good. It seems that Apple took M3 Pro in a different direction. It’s more of a souped up M3 rather than an M3 Max Lite.
I doubt it. Probably the bigger issue is that Apple lost some of its top engineers to Nuvia, who are now part of Qualcomm. The SnapDragon X Elite looks good on paper. Perhaps Apple just needs to lure a few engineers back.
That’s not a rush job. It’s a deliberate neutering.
