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Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max

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Re: Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max

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Post by aroman »

zacmps wrote: post #559
rrrurueuururu wrote: post #390

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For years now, Apple's biggest competitor is Apple from five years ago. One of their biggest threats is that sales flatline because people are still using their perfectly good laptops and phones from several years ago. And that's a hard problem to deal with when you advertise your products as high-end goods that will last a long time.

This shouldn't be a problem, and the answer is to refresh devices less frequently.

It objectively is a problem for Apple as a corporation though, as they are expected by their shareholders to to continue to grow and increase profits year over year.

Re: Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max

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Post by karolist »

MBCook wrote: post #427
rewmie wrote: post #299

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> Any reason for not upgrading? Why is this sort of question always framed as if people have to provide a justification for not buying a new model, as if spending money on the new shiny without any reason is normal or desirable? We live in a day and age where hardware bought a decade ago still packs enough punch to run most of today's software without any hiccup. Why would anyone waste their cash to replace something…

Some people have experienced downsides you might want to know about. For example as you passed 2016-2019, not only did you have the butterfly keyboard mess but each generation reportedly got hotter and thus louder. My 2015 was quieter/cooler than my 2019. So if you’re happy it may turn out that even though the newer machine has better performance it feels like a downgrade for other reasons. (I don’t think that’s the…

2019 16" no longer used the butterfly keyboard, they have a physical Esc key and something Apple called "magic keyboard", really a scissor based mechanism that's really pleasant to type on and doesn't stop working with a tiny bit of dust under the cap.

https://www.macrumors.com/guide/butterfly-keyboard-vs-scisso...

Re: Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max

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Post by rafaelmn »

internet2000 wrote: post #158
koito17 wrote: post #102

One thing that left me a bit confused was the comparison against Intel Macs. Although I am still using an Intel 16-inch MacBook, I really wanted to see how the M3 fared against the M2, not Intel and M1. I think it's no surprise the M3 exceeds the Intel Core i7-9750H in basically all of Apple's own benchmarking. My real question, which will probably be answered next week, is how it compares to the generation right bef…

I imagine the amount of people upgrading from an M2 Mac will be close to 0, while there's a lot of Intel stragglers out there.

Intel straggler here ! When M1 hit I was certain I would get a M Apple in a year or two when they iron out the transition. It was just leaps and bounds ahead of others and the pricing was great.

Now I think AMD and Intel caught up enough, Apple didn't keep the momentum, and they do standard Apple pricing discrimination - I think I'll take a gamble on Framework AMD version. I really like the idea behind the self-repairable upgradeable device and want to support them. If I was able to work on my Apple Intel i9 overheating PoS for past few years I'll be better off with anything, might as well support the stuff I like.

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Post by chupasaurus »

hk1337 wrote: post #370
SparkyMcUnicorn wrote: post #292

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MacOS can run MacOS containers natively, but I understand that's not much help for most people. https://macoscontainers.org/

That’s interesting. It’s in 0.0.1 version though but it seems like a possible drop in replacement

Without network, IPC, PID and cgroup namespaces replacements it's not even close. How Windows Server does it? By using parts of Hyper-V.

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Post by shpx »

coverband wrote: post #241

And still starting at 8GB of RAM… Disappointed.

You're saying people shouldn't be able to buy 8GB RAM Macs, which is crazy. I had to check how much memory my laptop has, and it's 8GB and I've never noticed.

I guess you're just complaining about what you get for the lowest price.

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Post by avereveard »

fckgw wrote: post #377
avereveard wrote: post #355

Can they drive two monitors this time?

The 14" and 16" Macbook Pros have always been able to drive 2+ displays. The new ones updated today continue this feature. Hope this helps.

Not at all. Version of MacBook Pro with the M1 and M2 base chip can only drive one external monitor.

And 600$ upgrade for the privilege of having a second external monitor is one hell of a step.

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Post by yipbub »

rickdeckard wrote: post #579
threeseed wrote: post #476

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Apple shares anonymous usage data by default on all their operating systems and users are asked again on every major update. Given that there has never been any public incidents about it and what we know about similar defaults I would be surprised if Apple is getting less than 95% opt-in rate. But I suspect at high-end they only really care about the performance of a few dozen professional apps e.g. Logic or Final Cu…

> Given that there has never been any public incidents about it and what we know about similar defaults I would be surprised if Apple is getting less than 95% opt-in rate. A 95% opt-in rate is INSANELY high for any type of usage-stat opt-in, everything above 50% is usually outstanding. What is known about "similar defaults"?

It seems like the comment above is describing out-out and the it pesters you to opt-back in if you opt-out.
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