The catch is that it is $800 cheaper than the M3 Max... The horror!
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New MacBook Pro Reviews: Scary Fast, But M3 Pro Chip Has a Catch
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Agreed - particularly poor efforts from most techtubers I thought.
Dave said his full review is coming and that this was just a quick video.
If people paid attention to the videos instead of jumping to disparage them, they'd maybe notice things like that.
lol I have no interest in spending over $4K on a laptop at this point in time. I get my 14" M3 Pro tomorrow. I was going to get the 16" with a larger SSD and decided I really didn't need the extra size or the large SSD. I don't see myself changing my mind a third time but, we shall see the farther I get over the return period.
As several pundits have said, and I think there’s some merit to it, this gen seems to be realigning what the tiers represent. Expect regular uplifts from this point forward.
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As far as YouTube fluff is concerned, Dave is better than most for people who rely on YouTubers to do their thinking for them. I wish I could get back the 5 minutes I wasted on his linked video.
Apple MacBook Pro 14-Inch (2023, M3 Pro) Review
Apple's 2023 14-inch MacBook Pro strikes a winning balance between premium design and M3 Pro-powered performance, for a compact mobile workstation that trounces similarly priced Windows machines.
Edited to: Going with the M3 over an M2 is actually a poor decision for most customers.
Let's be honest, a majority of MBP users are of the Starbucks variety...
His argument is just that it's 2 x 256GB chips because it's 512GB, which ignores that Apple could have used a single 512GB chip. I'm still going to wait for benchmarks or a teardown to be sure.
I think Dave2D's was probably one of the better ones I saw, but so many others were glorified unboxing videos with nothing in the way of discussion beyond Apple's talking points. Notebookcheck's review and Geekerwan's were decent.
Hate to break it to you but that's a G4. There was a time when I wanted the G4 so bad but I couldn't afford it. The freaking 500Hz with 256gigs of RAM was $3500 back then. Or about $6K today.
I only go to Starbucks for their strawberry frap. Swear. Nothing to do with an M3 Max in space black so I can lord over the plebs.
Actually after this 48GB M3, I'll have to start brewing my own coffee for a while. Till the M8 comes out.
They do exist. It's not about Blender even, it's a statement platform is (almost?) ready for 3d artists and motion designers.
Well, they are using 5 year old Intel 10nm for those chips. Intel just rebranded Rocket Lake. It's even worse than the 4770K to 4790K "generation" jump.