Im FRUSTRATED With M3 Macbook Pros

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I'm pretty FRUSTRATED with the M3 MacBook pros. They're amazing don't get me wrong but why were they released same year as the M2 chips?? Cmon APPLE. Thanks for watching!

[dell]

I think the reason for the releasing two chips in the same year is because Mac revenue dropped 34% year over year and they put this out as a course correction. The fact is the only SOC selling well is the M1 line and the M1 chip is so good a lot of people cannot justify spending $2, 000 to get a M3 chip minus crappy specs. I have a M1 Air and it's the best computer I've ever owned. You have a great M2 machine and I think you'll be into it for years to come.

[scottdpeterstv]

The M3 was big for 2 groups of people. 3D professionals waiting for Apple to finally support hardware accelerated raytracing (not available on the M2) and those on PC looking to change. For those already on an M1 or M2 and only doing video editing, this wasn't for you. Agian, this is NOT the same chip as the M2 if you are a 3D creative. It's a segment Apple has ignored for the last decade and are now trying to win back.

[PLANETWATERMELON]

The reason for two Mac this year is because usually Apple releases MacBook in 3rd quarter somewhere around October. Last year for the M2's they had distribution issues resulting in a delay to early this year 2023. So the M2's are the one's that had a usual release date and now Apple hopefully is back on schedule.

[SR-]

Heads up. Lower the volume of the music and you will be much better. Thank you.

[jimtipton]

Apple loves me because I traded a perfectly fine M1 Max 10/24/32 for a M3 Pro 11/14/36. Crazy right? The only reason I did it was because the M1 was a 16” and I really wanted a 14”. The 16” was just way too big for my 4 wheel office so it never left my desk. Space Black was a bonus. Hope it doesn’t suck compared to my M1 Max. Cheers!

[nickwind]

The reason for two MacBook releases in the same year was that the M2 was late. The M3 was on time.

[diokdin]

Well, if you really think about it: The target audience are those people that haven't upgraded yet to the Apple silicon. So if you have the M1 and M2 I don't think there's any sense of upgrading to the M3 not unless you just want to have the latest and the greatest. Everyone has a different level of devices. Also, PC's has different configurations of laptops coming out as more frequently than Apple does, no one complain about them...bec the people being targeted are different for each releases.

[mikekaylor]

I think Apple wanted to release the M2 4-5 months sooner than they were able, because of production issues. I'm glad they didn't artificially wait with the M3 just to put distance between releases. They had the new 3 nm ready; put them out there. I disagree that there isn't much difference in the M2 and M3. Certain tests that I've seen on YouTube show a major difference, and the base M3 gives the M2 Pro a run for its money, which is impressive in less than a year; the M3 Max is right on par with the M1 Ultra. 

I bought an M2 Pro-Pro in May, and I also felt the pangs of envy, but I have a great laptop, and you can't keep up. 
I think we should all be glad that Apple is pushing new chips out so quickly. We are not going to see a jump like the M1 was over Intel, with every new generation of chips, but the ump from the original M1 to M2 and now M3 is pretty impressive. The gains in GPU performance is nothing short of amazing. They will push the Nvidia chips pretty hard in the next few years.

[DaveDFX]

I see a lot of video editors complain about render times not being faster. I know some people are not into specs but I do stress that consumers need to learn about the way Apple Silicon works and use system monitoring software to actually see what's going on with apps and CPU/GPU usage. Some apps uses only performance cores. Some use both performance and efficiency cores. Apple change the configurations of performance and efficiency cores in base M3pro = less performance cores vs previous gen. This year the base Pros are not as good as previous gen.
If you use hardware accelerated video encoders or Neural engine, M1 to M3 basically uses same encoders and engines. So renders with minimal effects are almost the same on M1 to M3 ( pros have one hardware encoder, Max got 2 ).
The big difference is in GPU, hardware accelerated raytracing and more cores for the Max. That means big boost for 3d and GPU/Ai apps, Games.
Audio apps are having same issues. Software not yet optimized. Very frustrating not knowing what apps works well with the variations of Apple Silicon.

[cobblertv]

I just want to say, this video had no feeling of a small youtuber. Incredible video and some awesome points.

[Kyt]

I mean, the short answer to your concern is that you're not expected to buy a new laptop every year or two. The incremental upgrades are for the people in the market at the time they are released, not people who just recently upgraded. I'm not even an Apple guy, but I feel like I need to defend their annual release cadence. Also the M3 got some pretty serious graphics improvements.

[rqchin]

The M2 came out later than originally planned, and Apple bought all of TMSC’s 3nm chip production, so they couldn't let chips pile up for months just to create an artificial gap - that would have been very expensive. When you have the opportunity to release computers running technologies no other company has access to, you do it when it's ready. The M1 and M2 were already so good, most people using those shouldn't upgrade unless they need to jump up to the M3 Max. Apple is trying to reach the masses who haven't upgraded and it should help their holiday quarter sales, their most important quarter. Sometimes the business demands override other considerations.

[Foxblinde]

I finally am able to start saving up for a new mac upgrade (I tend to only upgrade every 10 years) and im really hoping they'll announce an M3 Ultra studio this summer so I don’t feel like an idiot for paying full price for an M2. I use a lot of adobe stuff for work and a lot of zbrush in my own time so definitely curious about the raytracing benefit on M3s and how that translates to rendering scenes or viz dev in unreal engine... right now i cant do any of it.

[wellfleetion]

I returned my base model M3 MBP purchased last week with 16GB of RAM and 1TB HD for a space black 1TB Pro chip and am very happy I

[JohnAspired]

I agree. They should only update these every couple of years. I’m looking to upgrade from my 2019 MacBook Pro 16” to the MacBook Pro 14” M3 Max space black. However, I feel I may as well wait now with the release of the new M4 MacBook pros expected towards the later part of 2024.

[ART]

Thanks for the video Dude your video lighting and width of lense is perfect.
Ok to let me know your camera, lense and light set up? Hope ya don't mind me asking

[whiskeyace]

the m3 max chip seems to have the most performance gains over anything else

[clyoulss]

My m2 macbook SSD drive failed right after the warranty ended. I lost ALL my family pictures. I was told by Apple too bad, buy another one! All the parts are soldered on and can't be fixed! This is like buying a jeep and getting a flat tire and being told to buy another jeep! When is someone going to get a class action suit against Apple?!

[RandomGuy]

A very valid point to have a 3 year launch cycle for laptop processors

[PeresD]

When they start churning out these incremental really tiny increases in performance and so many different confusing iterations, it looks like apple is fleecing or tying to fleece consumers.