M3 MacBook Pro VS M3 PRO!

Apple has a new 14" MacBook Pro at a cheaper $1599 price point complete with a 120hz promotion mini-led display, but instead of coming with a "Pro chip" the new base level MacBook Pro comes with an M3 chip so is this base level MacBook Pro worth it as a pro level machine and is it better than the M2 MacBook Pro it replaces?

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[GregsGadgets]

Sorry there is a mistake in one of the charts at 5:18 - The labels are wrong the first bar is the results from the M3 Pro (14 core GPU) while the second result is from the M3 chip - not the M2 Pro (19 core gpu) The scores are correct, the labels are wrong.

[WorksOnMyComputer]

No Mac should ship with 8GB of RAM. Its just not acceptable.

[karlbautista]

Similar specs upgrade of base m3 gets you very close to the m3 pro, with the pro getting another thunderbolt port and multiple display support, additional cores, and space black color. The most significant upgrade being the space black

[stephenkeever]

Well done comparison. You answered a lot of my questions.

[Niccaman]

Finally someone mentioned the battery benefits of the base M3. 25% boost over the M3 Pro is no joke, right!?

[markbernstein]

You did the best in focusing more on my decision especially when you said more of base M3 comparing to the new Mac Book Air thank you for making my decision more clear. Thanks again

[justinyadao]

I'm on the m3 pro and i have used a bunch of opened apps. I left my computer open... and slowly I see the ram useage go down second by second. the dynamic cacheing looks like it see which apps are not being used, it optimizes them, and it for the apps that have some usage on them, it slowly caches things down until you open it up again. But i see this trend where the data is going down when you do not touch your computer and it slowly fills up to where it was as you use it more. Overall alex zilinsky, ran some bench marks ( a software developer) and I can confirm: the SSD speeds are back up to double the speeds on the base model storages. Even for m3/ as for memroy bandwidth, you absolutely will not notice at all. M1 pro and m2 pro series are so fast the data gets chewed through before you saturated and froze the system. You might notice hiccups id you use a 12 bit footage with 3 stacks and have a bench mark open in the background for the consumer chips: but for the pro and max chips: apple has really peaked. All that's left for them to do in my opinion is to bring back the clalm shell design next year since their chips woul dhave so much damn battery. I used my macbook pro for 5 hours now since it left the box and it went down 10%, and that's me hammering the brightness and blasting the new speakers. watching my podcasts are so amazing because I thought I wouldn't notice, but voices are deeper because you can hear the entire low end from the drivers... I'm coing from the last intel macbook ever made. The spaceblack made me pull the trigger. And I changed my mind last minute from the 12 core to the 11 core m3 pro because the 11 core m3 pro has the same and slightly better cpu AND gpu than the top spec m2 pro. And I always see developers praising and hanging onto their m1 pro.... I think that's largely in part due to the damn fast ssd speeds and they brought it back up. RAM is not a problem. And They gave us ray tracing for editing. Resident evil runs a locked and steady 30 fps on an iphone. Haven't downloaded that game because mac isn't supposed to be for gaming, but it has some games and it's very capable. I will be returning it today and swapping it out for more storage because I'd want to hold onto this machine for more than 2 years as initially thought.

[sharonb.]

Great video. I agree, the best buyer for the base model M3 Pro would be the people wanting a more capable machine than the M2 Air and 13” MacBook Pro. If they’re not shopping between those basic models, they should go the base M3 Pro chip.

[bryansmith]

It’s like you were directly speaking to me. 😂 I don’t use pro apps etc. However the screen on the base M3 and the speakers are worth the extra money, even if I don’t use it as intended. My old MacBook Air M2 is being retired.

[Flooozeee]

"Ha! You got a base M3? Idiot! You should have opted for that $200 upgrade! While you are at it, might as well get the other $200 upgrade while you are there! Honestly, since you are paying this much, just opt for the next step up! Only another $400! According to my calculations you factor in all the upgrades you added you might as well opt for the super pro plus max! it's really only $2500 more than what you wanted to spend but it's well worth it, promise! 🤓"

- The internet in a nutshell.

[liquidluck]

This convinced me to stick with the base model. I don’t use pro applications. My use case is M365, YouTube and other simple processes. Thank you!!

[andyshotx]

10:01 I still cannot decide whether to have M3 at 16gb ram or M3 Pro base... There are no videos explaining which one is better ;-;

[kevinranders]

I just picked up the M3Pro yesterday. This is my first macbook and am moving away from windows laptops. Still have a desktop windows rig that I built for gaming but am enjoying this macbook very much so far.

[tipoomaster]

Someone from Apple just claimed their 8GB is analagous to 16GB on a Windows PC (lmao). I think you should put that to the test. Not using an Intel mac with a chip designed 10 years ago, using a hyper modern competitor from AMD or Intel, 16GB vs 8 on a mac, through heavy data sets that exceed 8GB, not just swapping around a few small programs that swap could mask ok.

[MarionSerrano]

Your charts are really confusing. The bar is not the same ratio as improvement.

[SuperGamerYoBros]

I think you’re right, if someone just wants some of the features from the MacBook pros, but actually doesn’t do any type of pro workflows consistently, or has no ambitions to do any of those workflows then yes the M3 MacBook Pro makes sense. However, this device has no headroom to grow. You didn’t really show any multitasking and any type of multitasking that includes a combination of certain pro level application and maybe more normal applications, and web browsing completely bottlenecks the a 8 GB of ram. The ram pressure is just way higher when you’re multitasking. And if you’re interested in doing any type of pro application that uses GPU performance like blender, you can actually just crash the software if it’s not the only software that you’re running at at the time. So you know I think that in general, if you’re somewhere in between a pro level user and a normal user, the main question to ask yourself is what task do you plan to be doing with this MacBook Pro That would be considered a pro level application? if it’s just video editing with Final Cut Pro, you’re fine to get just a normal MacBook Pro. However, if you want to use multiple Adobe applications at the same time, potentially, da Vinci, resolve, or blender then you might want to look at M3 pro MacBook Pro. I think at a $200 difference after you upgrade to 16 GB of ram it really becomes a hard sell to not move up to the M3 Pro. I think multiple creators and myself could agree on one thing which is I don’t really think this device should be specked up to the 16 GB, if you need that just go to the M2 Pro or M3 pro MacBook Pro. In the battery life debate I do believe is important, but the battery life issues that the 14 inch M2 MacBook Pro had have been significantly mitigated due to the E core and P core allocation on the M3 Pro MacBook Pro 14 inch. Right now that makes the baseline M3 MacBook Pro have about 20% longer battery life over the M3 pro MacBook Pro. I do not think that that’s insignificant, but I think the real world experience of that extra 20% might not be as noticeable as it seems. Like realistically at the end of the day, that’s the difference between having 8% battery leftover versus 12% battery. What I would actually like to see even though this is a harder test is does the M3 have better standby time then the M3 pro MacBook Pro. Because if the M3 can essentially hold its battery longer while not in use in addition to being able to last longer, that would be a really big shifter for me. However if it’s about the same that 20% difference I think you actually get a good trade for that 20%. You actually get a pro level laptop that’s still last incredibly long time, but I feel like if the M3 is going to be a battery champ vs the M3 Pro it’s gotta be like really good not just slightly better than the M3 pro.

[alexlukas]

Battery life differance would be interesting

[lofish]

Why do you guys say you can’t connect more than 1 monitor. Yes you can.

[cebrium]

Would it make a significant difference if you upgrade the RAM to 24Gb or even just 16Gb for the base model?

[bhawanigurung]

Why isn’t apple having wifi7 until now with such heafty pricing