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M3 Macs: there's more to performance than counting cores

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Re: M3 Macs: there's more to performance than counting cores

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And yet the air can’t support more than one monitor. I know Apple is a small company with only a few engineers so it must have been too hard. Sarcasm obviously. As an Apple enthusiast it’s so annoying how they sniff farts.

The Air is not the computer for people who use a lot of external monitors. 99.9%+ of MBAir users will never connect even one external monitor.

They make a small MacBook Pro that is suited for that task.

Re: M3 Macs: there's more to performance than counting cores

#72

And yet the air can’t support more than one monitor. I know Apple is a small company with only a few engineers so it must have been too hard. Sarcasm obviously. As an Apple enthusiast it’s so annoying how they sniff farts.

While some engineering compromises I can understand, most appear to simply be anti-consumer/cash-grabs. Need more than 8gb ram? Hope you've got sufficient money. Want a high refresh rate screen present in cheap android phones? Sorry not for our base models.

Re: M3 Macs: there's more to performance than counting cores

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post #71

And yet the air can’t support more than one monitor. I know Apple is a small company with only a few engineers so it must have been too hard. Sarcasm obviously. As an Apple enthusiast it’s so annoying how they sniff farts.

The Air is not the computer for people who use a lot of external monitors. 99.9%+ of MBAir users will never connect even one external monitor. They make a small MacBook Pro that is suited for that task.

And yet it's a dick move from Apple to artificially limit number of external screens supported.

Re: M3 Macs: there's more to performance than counting cores

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post #71

And yet the air can’t support more than one monitor. I know Apple is a small company with only a few engineers so it must have been too hard. Sarcasm obviously. As an Apple enthusiast it’s so annoying how they sniff farts.

The Air is not the computer for people who use a lot of external monitors. 99.9%+ of MBAir users will never connect even one external monitor. They make a small MacBook Pro that is suited for that task.

If you're referring to the 13-inch model, that's been discontinued.

Re: M3 Macs: there's more to performance than counting cores

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post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Air is not the computer for people who use a lot of external monitors. 99.9%+ of MBAir users will never connect even one external monitor. They make a small MacBook Pro that is suited for that task.

And yet it's a dick move from Apple to artificially limit number of external screens supported.

Lots of compromises are made to get the Air to the size, weight, and most importantly, price point (ie sub-$1k) that it is.

It is Apple’s best selling computer by quite a bit. They sell metric assloads of the $999 base model each fall when school starts.

IMO the $999 one (or $899 with education discount) is literally the best price:perf ratio of any computer available today or at any time in my recent memory. It’s astounding how good it is for that price.

Re: M3 Macs: there's more to performance than counting cores

#77

And yet the air can’t support more than one monitor. I know Apple is a small company with only a few engineers so it must have been too hard. Sarcasm obviously. As an Apple enthusiast it’s so annoying how they sniff farts.

While some engineering compromises I can understand, most appear to simply be anti-consumer/cash-grabs. Need more than 8gb ram? Hope you've got sufficient money. Want a high refresh rate screen present in cheap android phones? Sorry not for our base models.

> Want a high refresh rate screen present in cheap android phones?

What is this for? Games? I avoided this to save money the last time I bought a phone. I honestly can't think of use case where a phone display needs to update higher than 60 Hz

Re: M3 Macs: there's more to performance than counting cores

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It seems like the M3 favors efficiency and thermals over raw power. This makes sense for the devices they've put it in. I wonder if we're going to see different processors (M3X or M4) for the next release of the pro desktops, that favor power over thermals and efficiency? Maybe there will be a kind of tick-tock, with odd numbered processors favoring efficiency and even numbered processors for power? M3, M5, M7 for th…

You can just stack more of them for performance, no? You can't magically cool them down for idle periods though.

Dollars are never unlimited though, so you can't just add more chips/chiplets/cores.

Re: M3 Macs: there's more to performance than counting cores

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14" MBP with the highest M2 Max configuration, 64GB RAM, 1TB SSD was $3899. A new model with the same configuration is also $3899.

Wow, that’s overpriced for such low specs.

Please show me a laptop from another manufacturer that has similar specs, similar screen, similar battery life that costs less.

Re: M3 Macs: there's more to performance than counting cores

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post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Air is not the computer for people who use a lot of external monitors. 99.9%+ of MBAir users will never connect even one external monitor. They make a small MacBook Pro that is suited for that task.

If you're referring to the 13-inch model, that's been discontinued.

No, the 14. The Air is 13, and the “normal” MBP is now 16. The 14 MBP is not onerously large if you are one of the people who want an Air-sized computer with lots of IO.

It would be annoying if you had to get a 16” laptop to be able to hook up to multiple external displays. I love my 16” MBP but my Air is the one that goes everywhere in my handbag.

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