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Hoping for some decent discounts on the M2 MBPs over the next month. Looking to replace my still decent 2015 MBP.
I don’t know why their MacBook pros are so thick, heavy, and bulky now. No desire to upgrade from my 2018 MBP w touchbar. Kind of a disappointment
Buy air
So they wouldn't thermal throttle in seconds. Also a thicker laptop allows for a better keyboard and bigger battery.
So here’s a question, I just got a 15” M2 Air with 512gb HD and 16gb RAM. I’m still in my return window and with education pricing, the 14” M3 Pro with similar specs would only be about $140CDN more. Is it worth the return and getting the M3? My thought process is that if that’s how much an M3 costs, did I overpay for the value of the M2?
The screen alone is worth the extra price, I personally got the m1 14 simply for that XDR Display.
What happened to M3 air, either 13in or 15in models? I didn't expect to see a 15 in refresh, but idk about the 13 in. Is apple pulling a page out of Nvidia's book and launching higher end models first now to get upsell consumers?
Could be, but Airs are their best seller so they might not have enough chips to match demand. And the 15” launched just a few months ago
M3 is probably on TSMC N3B, a node that is a disaster for yield so much that every customer other than Apple and maybe Intel has decided to skip it altogether. I suspect there's just enough volume to ship the Pro iPhones, Pro Macbooks, and the low volume iMac. The mass market regular iPhone and Macbook Air is likely too high volume.
I only care about one point and that is efficiency, let's wait for the real tests and see.
I got my m2 air for the simple reason that it is the most reliable workstation on the go for my tasks.
m1 for browsing and office work, m3max for media, 2 chips total would be sufficient
That design might be the worst I've ever seen from Apple. Looks like a budget HP Pavillion from 2010.
Anything with the MAX chip seems to have really increased in pricing. Ugh.
I don't plan on upgrading for another 5yrs at least though so whatever.
What I want to know is why someone can't figure out how to deliver the macbook experience in the windows form factor. I have tried so many different windows computers and nobody can touch the build quality or the track pad. The track pad seems so easy to reverse engineer, but nobody can seem to do it. The closest I have personally seen is the HP Spectre laptop from a couple of years ago.
Lmfao, who is still buying this crap just to run MacOS? Insulting prices for what you get, I would understand if these things were actually decked out with a good amount of ram, storage space, etc. Downright insulting configs for the price.
In this patch update, we’ve decided to nerf the M3 Pro as we deemed it too powerful and expensive. We want to ensure our profit margins are big green this year. Anyway, we’ll see you all for the release of the M4!