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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Are you being deliberately facetious?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Zero new features. Bug fixes and performance improvements only.

 

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 overall performance uplift M3 Pro had over M2 Pro. We'll have to wait for benchmarks to be certain, but I'm sure Apple's omission of a comparison to M2 Pro is very telling.

These things already had incredible battery life, I'm not sure why Apple would choose to sacrifice performance for more battery life? The people buying these machines, myself included, are pros that need performance, and the rest of the M3 family has CPU performance improvements, so why not M3 Pro?

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