DaleinCalgary
Member
Proof that they last and are worth every penny.M3 chipsI’m still 8 years almost 9 years on the MacBook Pro I use lot Im Probably going for the decade mark what’s one more year
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"Scary Fast" Mac event announced for October 30th
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LordOfChaos
Member
Me: I hope Apple moves to 192 bit busses in M3
Apple: We here you, here's 192 bit in M3....Pro....
Me: Nooooo!
M3 Pro got a few cuts. I wonder if the binned chip is even faster than the full core count bin of M2 Pro. Also only 1 (!) more P core than the M3 in the weird 11 core model. But once you upgrade the base M3 model to 16GB, the M3 Pro model is sitting right there anyways.
Apple: We here you, here's 192 bit in M3....Pro....
Me: Nooooo!
M3 Pro got a few cuts. I wonder if the binned chip is even faster than the full core count bin of M2 Pro. Also only 1 (!) more P core than the M3 in the weird 11 core model. But once you upgrade the base M3 model to 16GB, the M3 Pro model is sitting right there anyways.
Mr Reasonable
Completely Unreasonable
M3 chips
I got almost a decade out of my last one too. Didn't mean it didn't sting when I bought the new one though!
LordOfChaos
Member
The thing now is they're starting to retire an Intel year every OS year even with no technical barrier, to accelerate that Intel binary drop date. It used to be that there was usually some technical barrier you could find if they dropped something, like lack of a 64 bit GPU kext or something like that, but now they're just accelerating that end date on machines that should be perfectly good to run the latest OS.
Wild to me that some T1 systems and the first Touchbar Macbook Pros are already getting retired.
Chittagong
Gold Member
Here's how Apple shot the entire 'Scary fast' event on iPhone 15 Pro (even the drone footage) - 9to5Mac
One of the impressive parts of yesterday’s Apple event is that it was shot entirely using an iPhone 15 Pro....
9to5mac.com
So the actual reason for making these couple of chip bumps that could have be dealt with a press release was to show off iPhone 15 Pro Mad camera.
Mr Reasonable
Completely Unreasonable
Here's how Apple shot the entire 'Scary fast' event on iPhone 15 Pro (even the drone footage) - 9to5Mac
One of the impressive parts of yesterday’s Apple event is that it was shot entirely using an iPhone 15 Pro....
So the actual reason for making these couple of chip bumps that could have be dealt with a press release was to show off iPhone 15 Pro Mad camera.
On that, I wonder if the camera is really any better than what we've had in the last 5 phones we've all had, but they've just run out of ways to show it.
Not to take anything away from the achievement, but it's still professionally lit, edited and graded. It doesn't mean that you can just lift your phone up in a bar and it'll look like Spielberg shot a movie on your night out.
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
The new m3 pro is weird - I wonder if there is any performance uplift over the m2 pro. It feels like they decided the pro was too much of a good deal. As a result you go from 4 P cores to 6 to 10 to 12. The hole between 6 and 10 seems very purposeful.
Also, you can now buy a MacBook Pro that does not have a pro tier chip.
LordOfChaos
Member
And the bottom bin of the M3 Pro only has 1 more performance core than base M3.
I would guess we'll find that the binned M3 Pro lands conspicuously close to full chip M2 Pro performance. Not worse, but not a lot better, except in RT and mesh shading. The full bin M3 Pro will be a bit better than that, and Max is where the real differences show up.
LordOfChaos
Member
About 30% faster than M1, objectively not terrible for 3 years apart but most of this was M3 already I think. N3B just doesn't seem to be gaining that much, and M3 Pro actually has 3 billion less transistors.
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
Either tsmc yields are abysmal or tim apple got too trigger happy designing the price ladder.
The only purchases that make sense are either the base m3 or the max... if you need a m3 pro i'd buy a m2 pro for cheaper. By the way, the base m3 on the leaked geekbench scores aprox 2,2x over my 4 year old i7-9750h
LordOfChaos
Member
Looking like the full bin M3 Pro is the smallest upgrade by far in the lineup, and they went if you really want performance get the Max. That would also mean the binned M3 Pro is likely only trading blows with the full chip M2 Pro.
www.macrumors.com
M3 Pro Chip Barely Faster Than M2 Pro in Unverified Benchmark Result
Apple's new M3 Pro chip with a 12-core CPU offers only marginally faster CPU performance compared to the M2 Pro chip with a 12-core CPU,...
www.macrumors.com