Looks like AirJet is sending out these things with sample modified MBAs so YouTubers can destroy functional computers and turn them in to e-waste to sell Air Jet’s products. As somebody else pointed out, PC World did a similar video on the same topic at almost the same time.

It was on LTT months before that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdD0yMS40a0

It’s clumsy over a LAN, nevermind the Internet. Apple’s VNC is not a patch on something like Microsoft’s RDP. It’s a poor solution, and depends on you having a good connection at the remote end. And you’ll also be using a tiny iPad screen. If you buy an iPad Pro and Magic folio and a Mac Studio then you’ve probably spent as much as a MacBook Pro.

Same, these are Pro machines designed for Pros who need performance. I have an M1 Pro 16" machine and the battery life is already more than enough to get me through the day.

Are you being deliberately facetious?

Optimised battery charging never correctly figures out my habits which are very random, so I use Al Dente.

I never said they don’t want you to buy it, I said they design their pricing structure so you spend more. The prices for upgrades don’t often reflect their true value, but a carefully chosen price point by Apple that leaves you in a position to justify spending a little more.

This is exactly why Apple carefully designs their pricing strucutre. They want you to think that.

It gets it wrong half the time, a constant frustration for my 14 years of Mac ownership

Snow Leopard was a huge update for my MacBook, fixed a load of issues, and was screaming fast. This isn’t my faulty memory. That’s how I experienced it at the time. Just because Snow Leopard didn’t fix every single bug ever, and needed bug fixes itself, doesn’t mean it wasn’t a bugfix release because it fixed a lot. And those bugfixes that came after Snow Leopard’s release weren’t necessarily fixes for bugs that were introduced with Snow Leopard, they were just fixed in a Snow Leopard update.

Zero new features. Bug fixes and performance improvements only.

It is normal RAM. There’s nothing special about LPDDR5X now. They do share it between CPU and GPU, that brings some advantages in that both can access the memory, but some disadvantages compared to dedicated VRAM as your GPU can now eat a chunk of that 8GB. Window Server is using 1.5GB RAM for me right now. That’s essentially memory all used by the GPU to render macOS’ UI.

Professional apps like logic Pro are native apps. Many people use Electron shite like Spotify and Slack in addition to their web browser. These apps will happily use 2GB RAM each just to perform basic tasks. Open a few Google Docs tabs and your browser will be eating 8GB for itself easily. Now you’re swapping like crazy. A small amount of swap activity won’t be noticable, but if you’re exceeding your available memory by multiple gigabytes the machine will start to slow down.

But were they doing equal workloads that were both using lots of memory?

Because for light workloads, of course a modern faster chip that sips power is going to run faster and cooler than a slower space heater from Intel. Nothing to do with the amount of RAM unless you’re significantly exceeding the amount of available RAM.

In normal usage you’d never notice the speed difference. The 256GB chip is still fast. When swapping, latency of the underlying storage device is what really makes the difference and latency is pretty much the same for these chips.

So how much does 128GB of LPDDR5X cost a manufacturer since you seem to be an expert on pricing?

Has Apple deliberately nerfed the M3 Pro CPU? And for what reason?

From Apple’s slides starting at 10:29:

M3 = 35% faster CPU than M1; 20% faster than M2

M3 Pro = 20% faster CPU than M1 Pro; No comparison to M2 Pro was given! 🤔

M3 Max = 80% faster than M1 Max; 50% faster than M2 Max

When Apple announced the M2 Pro they claimed it was 20% faster than M1 Pro. So are we to assume M3 Pro has no performance improvement this gen?

They’ve reduced the number of performance cores from eight to six, and as per the OP memory bandwidth at 150GB/sec is lower than the 200GB/sec of the M1 Pro.

It seems reducing the number of performance cores in favour of efficiency cores has eliminated any performance uplift M3 Pro had over M2 Pro.

Have Apple deliberately nerfed M3 Pro?

From Apple’s slides:

M3 = 35% faster CPU than M1; 20% faster than M2

M3 Pro = 20% faster CPU than M1 Pro; ??% faster than M2 Pro - No comparison shown, I wonder why?

M3 Max = 80% faster than M1 Max; 50% faster than M2 Max

When Apple announced the M2 Pro they claimed it was 20% faster than M1 Pro. So are we to assume M3 Pro has no performance improvement this gen?

They’ve reduced the number of performance cores from eight to six, and memory bandwidth at 150GB/sec is lower than the 200GB/sec of the M1 Pro.

It’s nice, but I prefer space grey and it’s disappointing they got rid of that