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Apple's M3 Chip: Everything We Know
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That's pretty unlikely according to multiple rumors.
Considering that the subpar yield of the TSMC N3B node, diverting resources to Mac doesn't seem to be a reasonable choice. The likely outcome is M3 comes from the N3E node which is less complicated and cheaper. That would be around Spring 2024.
I'm sure the M3 MacBooks will be great. The problem is the software, I have no interest in macOS behaving like iPadOS. Apple is pushing MacBook users to the iPad interface with their latest macOS releases. I don't like it, I would love to have an M3 MacBook Air running Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), for me it is the best OS Apple ever released.
Nice try for pulling someone's leg with that first post, but iPadOS and MacOS are way different in actual usage. Try using MacOS 14.1 on your Mac if you can run it. Like Night and day different between a IPad and a Mac and I use both. What is more of a problem is the lack of iPadOS evolution even if new M3 based iPad Pros get announced in the next few months.
Nice try for pulling someone's leg with that first post, but iPadOS and MacOS are way different in actual usage. Try using MacOS 14.1 on your Mac if you can run it. Like Night and day different between a IPad and a Mac and I use both. What is more of a problem is the lack of iPadOS evolution even if new M3 based iPad Pros get announced in the next few months.
Sorry I really disagree. Newest macOS versions behave like iPadOS = NOT macOS. Sorry but I have a hard time using the newest macOS version. Like Microsoft Windows 8 on a desktop, it does NOT work well. Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) will always be Apple's top notch macOS version.
If Apple can swing it, the first Vision Pros will be M3n and in fact I would expect that once the AVP gets beyond the introductory stage, each new generation of Apple's Mx Silicon will show up in the Apple Vision Pro first, in order to promote longer battery life and/or smaller batteries (something that will block widespread acceptance until the sweet spot is reach) as well as new features for each new gen of the device.
Some level of hardware raytracing is now supported in Mx series, or at least, it is in the latest iPhones, which have the A17 which should be the basis of the M3 series of SOCs.
I edit about 30k raw photos per year and frequently work with 500-2000MP PSB landscape files for large wall prints. I have the M1 Ultra Studio maxed out and it's pretty slow.... beachball city in PS, LR, and FCPX.
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