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- apple@hardware.watch
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honestly the price point is just bananas
Why? It will be put later in MacBook Air, which starts at $1099 for 13" model, and in iPad Pro, which starts at $899 for 11" model.
because that’s 1099 for 8 gigs of RAM which is not enough now for my usage. minimum 16-32, realistically you’re looking at spending about 2k for a lightweight productivity laptop (which is crazy). i love apple devices i’m just priced out and i’m a developer so it’s extremely baffling.
The base prices are not bad at all. The MB Pro M1 Max that I use as my main machine is the best laptop I’ve ever owned. Solid, extremely good battery life and can run just about anything.
The prices to expand your storage are bad though (memory isn’t good either, but at least that’s on-chip instead of storage, something that should be able to be replaced).
I’m not an Apple fan by any stretch, I don’t own a single apple product but I do have a company issued M2 MacBook and it’s pretty crazy. The battery just lasts and lasts to the point where I use it like a phone, I do what I need and plug it in at the end of day and usually have 30-50% left. It’s blazing fast, I’ve not once experienced any slowdown, crashing or anything and I use some heavy internal tools (tech company). They are really great machines and workhorses. Before that I had an Intel MacBook for 5 years (also work) and the battery was miserable and the fans would blow non-stop, I don’t think I’ve ever heard the fans on the M2
Phew! I thought for sure the M3 wouldn’t be able to compete this year!
In other news…. Rain is wet.
No its not
Apparently it’s news that what Apple claimed about their upgraded machine is true. 😴
New cheap is faster and more efficient than last year’s? Who would have thought. Bet that’s not going to happen next year.
Fish and cheaps
Cheap ?!? no. no. no.
Maybe they can put some effort in making 16G the new normal for pro line machines.
Yeah, I don’t get it either. But TECHNICALLY, the Pro machine does have 18GB it’s just apples strange naming that’s the problem. The Base Model MacBook Pro has an M3 Chip, not a pro Chip. That’s why it has 8GB, like the air. But the M3 Pro model has 18GB.
Complaining about the bottom level of a pro model is such a dumb hill to die on.
pro should either 32-64 gig , the air should have 16 gigs
Wow huge discoveries in record time. Not like people have had these things for a week and did loads of test on them on Tuesday.
And 2017 graphics
While the M chips are impressive, having 8GB of Unified, non changeable RAM is short sighted and downright stingy. Also Apple should make 1TB SSD the default.
Love 8 GB ram