Comment on Apple officially unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max: 3 nanometer, Dynamic Caching GPU, more

plz1@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• coffeebiscuit@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  *Wonders what a maxed out MBP costs.

  *pics the 14”…

  Maxed out is $7,199.- (ex Apple care)

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• kirklennon@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  At that point, why even go for a laptop, vs. what would clearly be a high end desktop station?

  Because you can take that high-end computer with you across the room, on a plane, or anywhere else.

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  • dukk@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, that’s all true, but who really needs that kind of power?

    For some people it’s worth it. For most people? Probably not.

    IMHO the MacBook Airs and the M1/2 MBPs are looking pretty good right now.

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    • kirklennon@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, that’s all true, but who really needs that kind of power?

      The people featured in the presentation: music and video production people, medical researchers, machine learning experts. The MacBook Air is their most popular notebook. The MacBook Pro is for people who actually need more (with a new lower-tier MacBook Pro added for morons who insist they need a "pro" model but really don't).

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    • bamboo@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Today I sat in a meeting I didn’t care much for and was able to run my project’s unittests. They take a long time to run, like an hour and a half if run on a single thread. But with an M2 Max I can run it all in ~10 minutes or so, and the power efficiency is such that I don’t have to worry about it. I previously had an XPS 15, and it both took longer and also I could kill it in an hour doing this, so any intensive tasks like this were only for when I had wall power.

      It’s definitely not necessary for casual use, but there are definitely use cases that benefit from having a ton of power in a laptop.

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• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Skip apple entirely. The spec out and testing of the new Qualcomm ARM chip releasing in laptops next year looks to have the m3 beat across the board and will definitely end up at a lower price point.

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  • HollandJim@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes! By all means, but next years’ mythical chip and instead of this proven one!

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    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s already been proven. They just had a big live tech press conference where they set up 20 laptops with the chips in them and all had them running windows with a bunch of different benchmarking software (all ones you’ve heard of if you’re in to that sort of thing) to prove the numbers, specs, and functionality, along with having some of their engineers there to answer any questions.

      It’s not a “next years mythical chip”. It’s already here and they already proved it was all legitimate and that there were no “embellishments”. The laptops from all the different manufacturers that are slated to use the chip are set to sell mid 2024.

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      • HollandJim@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        When it’s out and independently proven, only then would I say that it’s fair to compare.

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      • Jrockwar@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Genuine question: and are these slated to have full-fledged Linux compatibility? Because I’ve had to give up on Windows on Arm because of silliness like Google refusing to make Google Drive, or apps like Affinity/Blender/Fusion360 not having hardware acceleration thanks to Qualcomm’s subpar drivers.

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  • watcher@nopeeking.link ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s what I’m waiting for, just that it gets close to Mx performance and has proper Linux support.

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  • JohnWorks@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Did these chips have a translation in hardware like Rosetta? Or emulation that’s almost just as good?

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• Terevos@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just for fun, let me buy every upsell, regardless of whether I want or need it.

  And then let me compare that to the normal configuration of things I bought…

  Why don’t you compare apples to apples. Configure an M3 MBP like you would with fairly normal specs?

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  • modeler@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    apples to apples

    Well, technically all those computers are Apples, so they’re within their rights

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    • Terevos@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah I was trying to make a lame pun

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