• abs0lute888@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      Why? It will be put later in MacBook Air, which starts at $1099 for 13" model, and in iPad Pro, which starts at $899 for 11" model.

      • CarneAsadaSteve@alien.topB
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        1 year ago

        because that’s 1099 for 8 gigs of RAM which is not enough now for my usage. minimum 16-32, realistically you’re looking at spending about 2k for a lightweight productivity laptop (which is crazy). i love apple devices i’m just priced out and i’m a developer so it’s extremely baffling.

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      1 year ago

      I’m not an Apple fan by any stretch, I don’t own a single apple product but I do have a company issued M2 MacBook and it’s pretty crazy. The battery just lasts and lasts to the point where I use it like a phone, I do what I need and plug it in at the end of day and usually have 30-50% left. It’s blazing fast, I’ve not once experienced any slowdown, crashing or anything and I use some heavy internal tools (tech company). They are really great machines and workhorses. Before that I had an Intel MacBook for 5 years (also work) and the battery was miserable and the fans would blow non-stop, I don’t think I’ve ever heard the fans on the M2

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      1 year ago

      The base prices are not bad at all. The MB Pro M1 Max that I use as my main machine is the best laptop I’ve ever owned. Solid, extremely good battery life and can run just about anything.

      The prices to expand your storage are bad though (memory isn’t good either, but at least that’s on-chip instead of storage, something that should be able to be replaced).

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    1 year ago

    Maybe they can put some effort in making 16G the new normal for pro line machines.

    • Euphoric-Animator-97@alien.topB
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      Yeah, I don’t get it either. But TECHNICALLY, the Pro machine does have 18GB it’s just apples strange naming that’s the problem. The Base Model MacBook Pro has an M3 Chip, not a pro Chip. That’s why it has 8GB, like the air. But the M3 Pro model has 18GB.

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    1 year ago

    Wow huge discoveries in record time. Not like people have had these things for a week and did loads of test on them on Tuesday.

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    1 year ago

    While the M chips are impressive, having 8GB of Unified, non changeable RAM is short sighted and downright stingy. Also Apple should make 1TB SSD the default.

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    1 year ago

    New cheap is faster and more efficient than last year’s? Who would have thought. Bet that’s not going to happen next year.