New 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with M3 chip
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Re: New 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with M3 chip
#2I am most interested to see if the M4 chip will dramatically improve performance of local LLMs.
I like M1 Pro so far with models up to 30-70b parameters, but the memory bandwidth is my current limit.
With a large jump in unified memory and bandwidth we could see 120b parameter models running on a laptop.
As a side note, why does Apple continue to reference the Intel MacBook Air... It's over 6 years old now, no shit this new CPU is 16x faster...
Re: New 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with M3 chip
#3I can't tell the difference between my new M1 Max MacBook Pro and the new M3 Max Macbook Pro. Corporations have become pros at exploiting our human psychology. Their ads can make you believe that the smallest bump in improvements will make your older computer appear useless in comparison. That's why it's for the best if you avoid ads as much as possible.
Re: New 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with M3 chip
#4I am most interested to see if the M4 chip will dramatically improve performance of local LLMs. I like M1 Pro so far with models up to 30-70b parameters, but the memory bandwidth is my current limit. With a large jump in unified memory and bandwidth we could see 120b parameter models running on a laptop. As a side note, why does Apple continue to reference the Intel MacBook Air... It's over 6 years old now, no shit t…
To influence the (probably) still large user base of Intel macbook owners to upgrade I would assume
Re: New 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with M3 chip
#5> Support for up to two external displays: MacBook Air with M3 now supports up to two external displays when the laptop lid is closed
Re: New 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with M3 chip
#6Most interesting change:
> Support for up to two external displays: MacBook Air with M3 now supports up to two external displays when the laptop lid is closed …
Re: New 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with M3 chip
#7I can't tell the difference between my new M1 Max MacBook Pro and the new M3 Max Macbook Pro. Corporations have become pros at exploiting our human psychology. Their ads can make you believe that the smallest bump in improvements will make your older computer appear useless in comparison. That's why it's for the best if you avoid ads as much as possible.
The difference is really obvious during code compilation or other tasks that can take advantage of all cores.
Re: New 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with M3 chip
#8Great news and another reason to upgrade to the M3 series if you're using an M1 and like to use local LLMs or anything AI.
This time, it supports for up to two external displays with the lid closed.
The Macbook Air with M1 is already discontinued. [0].
Can't wait for the Mac mini with M3 Max or Mac Studio with M3 Ultra.
[0] https://www.macrumors.com/2024/03/04/apple-discontinues-m1-m...
Re: New 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with M3 chip
#9it's so clear that they limit it to 24GB to prevent cannibalization of the macbook pro. I personally could go for a M3 base chip with 64GB or 128GB of memory.
Re: New 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with M3 chip
#10Most interesting change: > Support for up to two external displays: MacBook Air with M3 now supports up to two external displays when the laptop lid is closed …
So it's still limited to two monitors, but now one of them doesn't necessarily need to be the internal one?