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M1 vs. M2 vs. M3 vs. M4 MacBook Pro Buyer's Guide: 30+ Differences Compared
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I'm still happy with my 14" M1 Pro, and I plan to be for 3-4 more years at least! It does everything I need it to, and more. Until the revamp the design or make the screen better, I plan to stick with my OG.
Same here. And same with my other M-based machines. No compelling reasons to upgrade these amazing devices. Now on the same 4-5 cycle as I am w/ my iPhone.
good choice - I also got a 4TB, 64GB 14inch MBPro as an upgrade to my similar configured 16inch M1-Max
because of that I moved from 16 to 14 - better portability and equivalent while docked
IMO, anyone looking at the M3 MBP or M3 Pro MBP, is better off getting an Apple refurb M2 Pro MBP for $1600 instead.
comparing between M3 and M2 Pro macbooks, you get 16gb ram and the same computer with a better cpu for the same price
comparing between the M3 Pro and M2 Pro macbooks, you get basically the same performance but 2gb less ram for $400 off.
comparing between M3 and M2 Pro macbooks, you get 16gb ram and the same computer with a better cpu for the same price
comparing between the M3 Pro and M2 Pro macbooks, you get basically the same performance but 2gb less ram for $400 off.
My quandry here is if I should upgrade from the m1 max before my trade in value drops ever further 🤔
Last year I bought a 14" M1 Pro MBP to replace my 2012 MBP that I bring to the office everyday. However, I find myself leaving the M1 Pro connected at home and still bringing the 2012 to work, in part because it has Boot Camp and and Windows emulation on my M1 Pro isn't great. The 2012 is too slow now for my Xcode and I'd like to just give it to someone in the family who just wants to do simple tasks (web surfing, etc.).
Anyway, I'm currently torn between (1) buying an M2 MBA to be my daily bring-along and leaving the M1 Pro at home or (2) buying an M2 Mac mini for my home setup and bring the M1 Pro MBP to work everyday.
That's a misread, I think.
The M2 has that increase from the M1. The M3 adds another 15%.
The problem with that number is we know the M1 to M2 wasn't 40% faster.
I suspect the side by side benchmarks are going to confuse things even more, that the M3 is a great chip but knowing Apple, it will lag behind the M1 in some tasks or something annoying just to drive us crazy.
Imagine if they actually released the 13 with the touch bar, new screen, AND a function row. We would have been talking down all the other macbooks at this point for being too bulky and old looking .
So, in Australia, I could buy the fake pro 13' M2 with touch bar for $1800 AUD
Now to buy the cheap 14' M3 it cost $2700 AUD.
What Im missing here?
Now to buy the cheap 14' M3 it cost $2700 AUD.
What Im missing here?
They could be M3000 generation, and I still wouldn't get any real world performance improvement for my workload.
I do get real world benefit from each iteration's battery life improvement though.
And I wish Apple would put out a variation that put 100% of the improvement into exactly that. Instead of improving performance by 20%, and efficiency by 20%, I wish they'd put out a chip with 0% performance, and 40% efficiency improvement. And yep, they could actually more or less do that, e.g. by reducing the clock speed (instead of increasing it, which they have been doing), etc.
I thought "I can wait; my last laptop lasted seven years. My current one is only two years old" but then I forgot about COVID. My machine is really four years old (last of the Intels). Now the M2Pro vs M3 info is very relevant. Not sure about stepping down in RAM though.
Great comparison table. It succinctly distills down all the most important differences that could affect someone deciding between these models. Would love to also include the MacBook Air (perhaps in a separate / optional chart in case it looks cluttered). I was looking long and hard between an upgraded MBA and a 14" MBP and it was a little tricky going back-and-forth between specs pages and trying to decipher all the nuances.
It's no typo. The best speculation I've seen is that Apple has changed the width of its memory bus from 256bit to 192bit. This allows the multiple-of-six and multiple-of-nine RAM quantity (instead of the more typical multiple-of-eight), but also changes the total bandwidth. Will be interesting to see what the performance benchmarks say when they come out.
It's no typo. The best speculation I've seen is that Apple has changed the width of its memory bus from 256bit to 192bit. This allows the multiple-of-six and multiple-of-nine RAM quantity (instead of the more typical multiple-of-eight), but also changes the total bandwidth. Will be interesting to see what the performance benchmarks say when they come out.
Friday night (Apple time) and almost all configs of the 14" (and some of the 16") are still showing November 7th delivery! Either they built up quite a big launch supply or people are not rushing to purchase the 14". :/
I think the most exciting thing about the M3 MacBook Pros is the Space Black. All else is very iterative at this point. Real world benchmarks may tell a different story so I am reserving judgement pending what people see when they show up and compare. I am very interested in the 14” MacBook Pro in Space Black.
I have to do the accounting for my small business using quickbooks. Will this new Mac make my accounting work go 40% faster once I login to Intuit online? How so? I am not sure there is any benefit at all compared to my 2015 MacBook Pro 15 (A1398). I doubt my email or YouTube videos would go any faster. If they do, my eyes are too old to keep up. Will music sound 40% better on iTunes/Apple Music?
It is ironic that Apple wants customers to upgrade their hardware every year. But they contrarily want to turn it into a licensed machine vs owned by locking it into iCloud and turning off you iPhone apps if you dont' keep a live payment option turned on for them to hit whenever.
They want to force customers and partners into their walled garden App Store and make a much as possible SAAS so they can hold your data hostage for payment. But, SAAS / online internet model negates the point of faster and faster computing platforms doesn't it?
The Retina models were peak Apple IMHO. No one wants to talk about the dark years of dongles, butterfly keyboards, touch tapes, T2 and soldered in failed SSDs from 2016-2020...lol. Suddenly they discovered MagSafe, HDMI and SD cards again... brilliant!
It is ironic that Apple wants customers to upgrade their hardware every year. But they contrarily want to turn it into a licensed machine vs owned by locking it into iCloud and turning off you iPhone apps if you dont' keep a live payment option turned on for them to hit whenever.
They want to force customers and partners into their walled garden App Store and make a much as possible SAAS so they can hold your data hostage for payment. But, SAAS / online internet model negates the point of faster and faster computing platforms doesn't it?
The Retina models were peak Apple IMHO. No one wants to talk about the dark years of dongles, butterfly keyboards, touch tapes, T2 and soldered in failed SSDs from 2016-2020...lol. Suddenly they discovered MagSafe, HDMI and SD cards again... brilliant!
You just answered your own question....
Just as a Lamborghini is not for everyone, a new Mac may not be for you if all you do is SAAS. If you were a power user, designer, video/music producer or gamer, then getting a new Mac would make world of a difference.
Apple doesn't want customers to upgrade every year, otherwise I would say the same about Auto Manufacturers just because they release new models every year.
iCloud storage is a convenient option for those who need it and know how to make the best out of it.
Updated payment information is convenient so I don't need to be worrying about manually paying for renewals or entering credit card information every time I need to buy an app or content. I value my time very much.
It looks like your whining has no direction... you are just throwing things to the wall and hoping someone sticks.
BTW: I'm running QB 2016 on a 2018 MBP running Sierra in a VM. Let's whine about Intuit forcing us to buy a new version of their software without bringing ANY valuable feature. Even if you run it on a supported OS, it will suddenly start to misbehave and show very odd glitches. And now they want to force their users to use their online version so they can milk our money away forever.
M3 chip supports two external displays if you leave in clamshell mode. Source: https://support.apple.com/en-us/117373