"Reviews" lol More like the usual suspects desperately acting like unboxing a product with a minor spec bump, with no design changes is a mind blowing new product is more like it. MR should not feature this crap anymore.
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MacBook Air With M3 Chip: Reviews and Unboxing Videos
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I was super curious what "iJustine" thought
Turns out she likes it
I'm pretty surprised, especially with the "i" on her name
Why bother with unboxing videos? Externally isn't it the exact same as the M2 Macbook, and the M1 MacBook before it?
Thank you so much for letting me know. Really helpful, and appreciated.
Unreal! She is usually very unbiased and critical of new Apple product releases.
iKnow
It’s a shock to us all
Really shows what a polished and substantial upgrade these machines actually are!
They finally won over iJustine
iCantBelieveIt
Really? Because that’s exactly what one could presume MR is encouraging us to do by reposting them on their front page, and reporting them as product reviews.
At least they seem to be human. Soon to be replaced by AI influencers rolling out bullet points.
Or why not add some truth for once:
"Dear Apple customers,
We are thrilled to announce this yearly iteration of M3-based Macbook Air. As you know, M3 is about the same as M2, except it costs less to produce, which is all good for us, hence for you. Of course, we had to do the routine price bump. But we kept it reasonable, by our standards, except for Mike from RAM Management & Pricing who can't help being a jerk (Hey Mike!)"
They always Skip in the charts lower pro M3 Pro chips. 11/14 and 12/18 cpu/gpus.
Lower end M3 pros always left out as they always go for the top M3 pro-MAX chip.
argh^%$%@^
Have no idea how it compares.
Most reviews do this.
Lower end M3 pros always left out as they always go for the top M3 pro-MAX chip.
argh^%$%@^
Have no idea how it compares.
Most reviews do this.
If you are going to compare Air to Pro in charts M3 to M3Pro would be nice to see.
Showing the fastest Pro max with in the m3 lower end line is not fair comparison.
Everyone knows the top of the line performance is going to be better than the rest.
Showing the fastest Pro max with in the m3 lower end line is not fair comparison.
Everyone knows the top of the line performance is going to be better than the rest.
There are still some good old school sites doing them. Ars Technica, Tom’s Hardware, etc. Maybe not as deep on M3 but it’s also not a brand new chip anymore.
Must be real hard to review a spec bump, honestly
We went laptop and SSD only back in 2013. Keeps the workforce mobile, and laptops were powerful enough back then that anyone could get their work done on them. It made Covid a non-issue. Everyone already had a laptop. Developers had desktops up through about 2019, when we phased those out too.
We support two displays. Some intrepid users go farther, but only 30% of our users leverage dual displays, less than 1% do more than 2 displays, and on Fridays, less than 10% use more than one external display (almost everyone works from home that day)
"Content creation" was an oxymoron right from the start considering they've always been walking, talking billboards paid to promote products - just the social media version of a TV or radio ad.
And just like TV or radio ads, few people actually pay attention to influencers overall (unless you're my mother in law, to whom everyone is welcome to sell a bridge to). It's a little sad marketing has been reduced to this (considering Apple's marketing has traditionally been pretty spot on).
Fortunately there's a handful out there who are somewhat interesting, but really just a handful.
I see them as just people with dubious qualifications trying to make a living pretending they know what they are actually talking about.
I'm going to guess that these are extremely low quality external displays by today's standards that are all over these desks.
Geekbench numbers mean a lot to people who know to read them. They are also very useful as a consistent source of measure for older Macs.
And this is the problem. They chase after the clicks because they need the income, not because they have any specific knowledge or because they are paid by an employer to be honest about their thoughts. While we don’t need editorial control over everything on YouTube, it’s become very clear why a good “editor in chief” is so valuable for curation.
Even on this site which you'd think would be trustworthy. I remember the MacRumors review of the M1 iMac said the display wasn't as sharp as the Apple Pro Display XDR or LG Ultrafine. But that is impossible because they all have the same PPI.
Why not? I certainly have the time now that I have stopped subscribing to Netflix, Disney+ and TV+, while keeping my YouTube premium subscription. I can think of worse ways to spend 10 minutes here and there.
You called it, lots of Dell 1080p panels. Garbage compared to any Apple display... but sadly that's the reality we deal with every day in corporate IT.
SD slot on my MBP M1 is unreliable.
I do use the HDMI though. I find it more reliable with monitors than DP and I don’t have any monitors that support TB. I also use the HDMI on a thunderbolt dock to put netflix on a TV so I can watch Arrested Development or Bojack while I work.