For me 14" was to small and 16" is to big sadly I'm eyeballing a MBA 15" i would prefer a MBP but the size thing i cant get past. Its like they took the perfect size laptop and gave it to the AIR 
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MacBook Air With M3 Chip: Reviews and Unboxing Videos
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Looks just like the last MacBook Air, but hey here’s an unboxing! See how much it looks the same as the M2 model?! Magical!
My dude. Gen Z would have no idea what a long form in depth proper tech review looked like if it snuck up on them and bit them on the ass.
This was my exact situation, so happy to see someone else excited about this
The benchmarks got me LOLing. Basically, a minor, minor performance update vs. The M2. Stick to the usual 3-5 year upgrade window.
I've used JAMF for around 15 years. Looking at moving to Kandji. JAMF just isn't the company it used to be.
FYI; ars technica has a very detailed long form review;
Review: Apple’s efficient M3 MacBook Airs are just about as good as laptops get
For Intel or even M1 upgraders, there’s a lot to like about the M3 Air.
arstechnica.com
The 16/512 model comes standard with the 10-core GPU. That model is in the sweet spot IMO. Best part is that it is a model stocked in stores.
I remember when I lost respect for and stopped watching two famous Youtubers - MKBHD and JerryRigEverything.
In the case of Zack, I was in the process of replacing my iPhone 6 and I spent a couple of months prior to Sept 2018 looking at what to buy. I was watching videos, reading this forum as well as other websites and after two months of contemplation, I decided on the XR. After I had made my decision and just before buying the XR, I watched a JerryRig video where he advised viewers to buy a "real phone" instead of the XR. I bought the XR anyway and after seeing what a great phone it was, I lost all respect for that channel. I thought to myself how devoid of value watching his videos was to me when I did thorough examination of Apple's offering at the time and reached the opposite conclusion of that guy, and then proceeded to experience for the next four years of ownership just how correct I was in choosing the XR. And here is this Youtuber just randomly saying something because I guess he thinks his viewers will appreciate that particular stance. The way I see it, that guy takes shots at easy targets, like snapping a shiny iPhone in half, because it will get views. Unless you want to know how long you can hold your lighter against the screen of your thousand-dollar phone (as we all do, I guess), I don't see any value there. If I took stock of what JerryRig says, I would have missed out on a great device that still serves me today.
In the case of MKBHD, I remember there was one of those Pixel phones he likes, don't remember which as this was several years ago. He is famous for prefering stock Android and the Pixel is notoriously his pick so he did a review and, to the surprise of no one, that Pixel phone was praised. All well and good. Then half a year passes and the guy does a Q&A and someone actually decided to ask him about screen issues with that phone. So there's the first warning sign, the issue was apparently so widespread that someone decided to directly ask him about it. To his credit, he took the question and answered honestly, but the answer was very discouraging and disappointing. He said he had had the same issue (I don't remember what it was, lines on the screen, tint or something) and he returned or replaced the phone. So just think on this - the guy is the biggest Youtuber out there, big enough to get a 1-on-1 interview with Federighi, has a dozen million views per video or whatever, he goes on to praise an expensive device and then neglects to correct his review when the device turns out to be low-quality garbage. And it's not like the phone died after two years or something, this was after a few months, before the new one dropped. I mean, come on. There should at least be some semblance of moral responsibility when you influence the decision making of so many people. I saw that Q&A and unsubscribed immediately.
These guys aren't reviewers, they are influencers/tech celebrities and, for the most part, what they say is worthless to me. I don't mean to suggest these guys are worthless because I'm sure they put in a lot of effort into making these videos, there's other people involved, they have employees and expenses and all that so credit in that department, I'm not belittling the effort. I just cannot help but question their honesty and integrity and, at the end of the day, will never again decide to put stock into anything they say.
I don't think much of Justine either in terms of actual objective worth / honesty, but at least she doesn't even attempt to hide that she's an Apple fangirl so fair play to her. I don't see her pretending to be an unbiased reviewer, unlike for example Linus who sinks about as low as you can in the tech world.
I like to watch Dave2D, Quinn Nelson and Flossy. If anyone has something against these guys, I'm all ears. Don't wanna watch sell-outs.
It’s a good thing nobody’s asking you to watch them, then… they’ll still be making their money with or without you.
It's been this way for years, they're just playing the game I guess. You have the same round-up of videos every time a product is coming out. First the rumours, then someone bets their channel on something being true of false (Sam Kohl), then you've got the last minute leaks just before an Apple event, followed up with hands-on impressions. Then the real fun starts, as they have to do the whole menu - Don't make a mistake, Don't be fooled, I was wrong, Why everyone is wrong, I was shocked, XY product surprised me, XY product is not what you think etc. What I don't appreciate here is the lack of effort in writing these titles, when a Youtuber doesn't even bother to change the words around, like GregsGadgets. Max Tech is also a known offender, but at least they do real comparison videos and benchmarks so you get some actual data.
My favourite is when Youtubers add the word "honest" in the video title, immediately followed by the word "review", not seeing the irony. The brainiacs among these will put the word "honest" in caps or at least capitalize it, just so we don't miss it. Then of course there are the "long term" reviews that are posted a week after release.
Dave2D and Quinn are the same BS you’ve mentioned previously, sadly.
I mean, Dave was literally trying to convince his viewers that 8GB on a laptop that costs over $1000 is perfectly fine if you want it to last 6 years without any noticeable change in performance.
Seems RAM might be a big factor in these performance differences. Would be nice if they compared machines with the same specs.
8GB is sufficient for 6+ years for most users. I've got a 2014 MacBook Air with 4GB and it still runs decently today. The degradation in performance mostly comes from the SSD wearing out.
Dave is starting to look like he needs to get some sun and get out of that "Dr Evil Lair" that he shoots videos in
I'm kinda getting worried about him.
It's like they aren't tethered to reality at all.
I'll be getting the 24GB M3 Air 15.
But for most people I know, 8GB is plenty.
No problem, one can just swap out the SSD on M-Macs to keep them running!
...oh wait..
To me this is the major disapointment. I run 3 27" 2k screens out of my HP Zbook fury G8. Tried 2 4k but dont like the placement on my desk.
Reviews by certain Apple influencers are just too nauseating... I actually avoid the first batch of reviews for this reason. Way better to wait for the more balanced and in depth reviews and teardown that come a little later before making any decision on a purchase.
I stopped solely looking at Geekbench scores years ago... I had a few devices and the real life performance just started having less and less correspondence to the Geekbench scores. Even less so on a device like an iPhone... where for the most part it is practically meaningless for most consumers.
So now I always try out a laptop in a store (although it's by no means perfect) to get a real idea of the devices capabilities.
Of course they could use other benchmarks, but on the other hand not all that many use FC or Fusion, so by themselves those aren't useful to most of the market.
CR listed the EV Battery issues and Powertrain issues separately. With 100% battery recall, I'm not sure how that rating (1 / 5 over three model years) is considered "iffy". Seems accurate to me.
iDoubt they care. Shilling for trillion dollar tech firms is probably quite lucrative 👍
I’ve been looking forward to the generic unboxing videos from the usual biased YouTubers all week, thanks MacRumours for posting them.