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Everything Apple Announced During Monday's 'Scary Fast' Event

The theme and the content of the event is irrelevant。Only the wording Scary have a little bit related. But i cant feel how M3 is so fast to be scared. When looking at the chinese translation of the event title 狠速登陸，it is a disaster of marketing. I cannot think of any similar usage of wording and it does not fit with original English meaning
 
There were several references to upgrading from an Intel iMac, and the way he talked about the current 24" being a replacement for the old 27" borders on being offensive.
 
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I do think the biggest joke with the M series is that the base M3 only lets you use 1 external monitor. A $2k iMac, or $2k base MBP with a chip that they say is so amazing and powerful is gimped out of the box. It's why I was driven to get the M1 Max when I did because I needed more monitors.
 
Piggie said:
Well that was all a bit of a non event wasn't it.

Not wishing to be picky but something quickly started to bother me that I noticed again and again and again.
That was the constant comparisons to M1 and not M2

It's as if they know full well this isn't THAT much faster than an M2 so kept on comparing it to an M1

That's really weird.
When Nvidia launch their 5000 series cards next year? I expect them to talk about how much better they perform in comparison to their 4000 series cards and not constantly compare them to the 3000 series cards.

Let's be totally honest here, if your product today was so much better than your last product, that's all you would talk about. If it's not that much better, then thats the only reason why you'd constantly keep comparing it to the product before that, and against you very first attempt as making a chip.

The M1 (1st attempt at a desktop chip) Came out in November 2020
If you spoke to people then, and told them three years and two generations on from the new M1, the M3 would be "Up To" 30% faster in some select tasks then you'd probably have thought, noooo this is the 1st model, in 3 years time more progress than that will have been made.

Note: I'm not hating on M3 whatsoever, It's just the MASSIVE deal Apple are making considering 3 years of development, and constantly comparing todays brand new chip to your 1st 3 years old one in an attempt to make it sound amazing.
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Seems like this event was directed toward intel and m1 owners. I suspect for a majority of M2 pro/max owners it’s not really necessary …. I have yet to hear my fan on my m2pro MBP, it runs extremely cool no matter what I’ve thrown at it.

My 4090/i9 pc acts as a small furnace! 🤣
 
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M1 was truly a revolution. It was all about architecture, not node. People are delusional thinking node shrinking can fix performance/efficiency gap (this is especially true for x86 fans - Intel/AMD). Intel or AMD will have to do 5 node shrinks to get into area of efficiency of Apple Silicon. And today efficiency translate directly to performance.
NVIDIA and AMD start cooperation to provide decent ARM for PC/Microsoft in 2025.
Intel in burning house is telling "its all fine"
Apple doesn't want to invest/enter gaming market and dGPU support.
Where PC computing will be in 10 years? My bet is ARM, but rather NVIDIA than Apple (for Apple IPhone is still main business driver)
 
This whole event struck me as "we want you to get rid of your Intel Mac." I am glad they had an event focused on the Mac though rather than a press release. We need more Mac love, not less. I will say I am extremely disappointed they didn't redesign the iMac though. The current form factor/model is an abomination.
 
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I'm glad Apple finally came to their senses and dropped the price of the 14" MBP. $2,000 for it before was ridiculous. I always buy the larger MBP but still, there is no way I would've dropped $2k for the 14" version.
 
DMG35 said:
These comments are hilarious. This simply proves that no matter what Apple does people are never going to be satisfied with it (and I’m not excluding myself in that group).

Although I did jump all over the Black MBP.
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You mean the Black MBP that Apple purposefully kept away from those buying the M3 MBP 14? The color that Apple said looks professional is not available on the MacBook PRO 14 M3? Is that not a PRO machine?
 
JimmyG said:
Um, I clearly saw both M1 and M2 graphic comparisons throughout the presentation, nice to see how the latest-gen chips, er, stack up. :)
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People tend to focus on what is said and not what is shown, not to mention the charts weren't on-screen very long to really digest the info.
 
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Mac_The_Ripper said:
I'm glad Apple finally came to their senses and dropped the price of the 14" MBP. $2,000 for it before was ridiculous. I always buy the larger MBP but still, there is no way I would've dropped $2k for the 14" version.
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Half the facts here. They dropped the price because you get a non-PRO CPU and only 8GB RAM. It's not similar specs for less money as you make it sound.
 
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boswald said:
For me, that Space Black color was the star of the show. I never thought I’d get excited for yet another black computer, but damn, I want it!
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I guess all along, Mac people have been envious of all the BLACK Windows laptops! Who'd have guessed? ;)
 
bumblebritches5 said:
Me too, how did you know?

Swear to God I had a dream of me using a black MacBook Pro two weeks before the event was announced.
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Could you have some dreams about market competitive RAM and SSD pricing? Please!

Could you have a dream about a Snow Leopard year or two to get macOS back to mostly "just works"?

Could you have a dream about an upcoming lotto drawing and then PM'ing me those winning numbers?

;)
 
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Motorola68000 said:
Exciting, and her comes the but.....but Tim you have to grasp the bullet and improve base level memory and storage.
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...only when the public vote with their wallets. If the masses "just buy", Apple maximizes profit. Get the market to refuse base spec configurations and base specs will change. Until then, bonuses will be earned, shareholders will applaud fantastic leadership decisions, etc.
 
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Oestreich Dieter said:
The mouse, keyboard and magic mouse are all still lightning.....unreal.
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So are most iPhones in the wild. Time will fix that. New & existing Lightning inventory will thin, replaced by USB-C inventory. Eventually Lightning will be like 30-pin stuff or Firewire. For now, it's still abundantly everywhere until a LOT of iPhone owners retire the one they own... possibly purchased as recently as weeks ago new or today in the refurb store.
 
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