The M3 pro is way more energy efficient, that's the upgrade you've paid for.

the stutter most likely comes from the memomy bandwith, which was decreased in the standard pro chip. Thats why im opting for an m2 pro.

Apple doesn't make it easy. You have to get more cores to get a memory upgrade 36gb. 150GB/s memory bandwidth of the Pro chip is *bad*. M2 Max on the Mac Studio has 400 GB/s!!!

I absolutely agree. For the price of MacBook Pros, 32GB should be the standard.

Agreed. 16GB is not enough RAM if you’re working with heavy video. I’m really disappointed that we can’t update RAM like we could back in the day.

Apple understands this mostly deeply. That's why they price the ram upgrade like that.

The other thing with MacBooks is they also use unified memory which in return is a lot more efficient than standard RAM

That is what Apple knows and that is why they charge unreasonable amount of money for RAM.

For your use case then ram might be a better upgrade. What kind of development do you do?

@@ColeCaccamise Full Stack Web apps.

@@user-it8de6uw9m yes m1 is enough for learning. get 16gb ram + 512gb version. This is bare minimum. Don't buy 8GB ram version as running servers locally won't be possible.

@@user-it8de6uw9m yes

As a system/DevOps engineer, I decided to buy MBA 13" M3 16/512 for my usage - the most excellent choice for me. Even though the M3 Pro 14" costs "only" 300 bucks higher at the moment, I don't see any reason to have a bigger device. But I will appreciate it if my employer decides to give me MBP ))

Thank you man, glad you’re enjoying it!

M1 16" here as well, loving it, but i did have to pay for additional icloud storage last month (bought it second hand for 1,5K £, now they are even cheaper ~1.1K £ still would buy it in 2024)

How do you guys get along with all the payable programs on apple OS? Like even Adobe Acrobat Reader can’t be used without paying?

Hey Jason, how much was the battery capacity when you got it?

how is your battery life? Is it 14 or 16"? I'm getting like 7-8 hours on light use. My old m1 was also around this range. I regret switching to pro which was supposed to give "18 hours"

@@mymbrain I got the 14" version. As for battery life, it really depends on your usage. I for one can easily get the advertised 18h or even more than a day without charging. This while having screen brightness and keyboard lighting on auto and while editing texts in word, editing photos in photoshop or also steaming videos. I can’t explain your measly 8h though. Are you using it with 100% brightness?

@@Pascal-ui2lm this 7-8 hours is with 40-50% brightness and no keyboard lightning. If i have 100% brightness it goes max 3-4 hours. I check my CPU & GPU usage, they are usually pretty low. I'm doing the same stuff as in M1 Air and getting less battery life. I think something is wrong with my device but it is very hard to proof since they always say it "depends on the usage"

@@mymbrain You have an M3 Pro Chip and not just the base model right? Because the M3 would be a bit less efficient. But if it’s the Pro then it might be worth asking Apple for support if this short battery life continues. Your battery might have a production fault if that’s the case.

hi as you use mac, I have a question, my brothers M1 Air had a issue when I tried using Photoshop on it, first it was fine, but after some days, it ran into a OpenGL issue, the use GPU option in performance setting gets randomly greyedout sometimes. And it stops updating smart objects, text effects and canvas zoom etc. Have you ran into this issue, please tell me if you know anything about it & if there is a solution, I want to buy M3 air 16gb for Graphic design (first time apole buyer), but this potenial doubt is stopping me from it. Because if it occurs, then it would become useless. And is M3 air 16gb good enough for graphic design, will it handle the workload fine. Thanks.

Thank you for the support bro!

But also on the kind of footage, 4K doesn’t mean a lot by itself

And that's aactually the answer why the new one isnt any faster, same encoder, same times. Easy as that. So why should it be fast then??

@@Patrick-ds1dgIn the video, he is comparing it to the M1 Pro, which also has one encoder.

@@caedon0756 Yeah, but that's the problem. Same encoder and same count of encoders. How do you wanna see any significant improvement. I cant complain about that, if i miss the fact.

But isn’t the 16 inch MBP cooler especially during processor throttling as compared to 14 inch? Not to mention bigger screen real estate and display resolution.

@@sglatitude He said that the fans weren’t turning on. So there shouldn’t be any throttle.

From the other comments it seems to do with the media engine + slower bandwidth. But maybe I was wrong about the benefits of ram

@@ColeCaccamise having more RAM avoids the frequent swapping to disk due to insufficient RAM. Read/Write to RAM is much faster than storage which is why it's best to avoid swapping.

Bro.. really bro upgrade! You'll feel like you are living in a new generation.

Im on a 2013 mac air. Only looking to upgrade because I can no longer upgrade the software.

Me over here with my 2011 MacBook Pro.

Absolutely disgusting that they push 8gb in a "pro" grade base laptop in 2024! 😑

apple knows the m series chips are awesome.. and that they could last a VERY VERY LONG time... so apple has to "break" their computers some-how so that their sheep are forced to buy new systems... what's the best way? soldered inefficient amount of ram. most ignorance consumers would just listen to the apple echo chambers of "8GB of ram is good enough for 99.99999999% of ppl" and think nothing of it.. ignorance is bliss ig.

I did the same for the same reason. I think we can still upgrade with a ton of space via microSD and/or portable SSD

Thank you man!

Yikes, your workflow sounds exactly like mine😬 Did you get the 36gb one? How do you like it

@@christopherbuckel9180 I had to order it as the local Apple Store didn’t have one in stock. I’m still waiting on it, it should hopefully be here in a week or so. After doing some more reading, I found a thread on the Adobe community message boards about this. Lightroom Classic just seems to start hogging memory sometimes as it caches images. This doesn’t seem to be a Mac issue but an Adobe one. One person on a 32 GB M2 MacBook said it will hog all that memory and still create up to 10GB cache files sometimes. Another person states that turning graphics acceleration down to basic solves the issue. So I’m not sure that upping to the 36GB model is even going to solve my problem, but as I want to run some VMs as well, the extra memory will be welcome.

@@christopherbuckel9180 I got it a couple weeks ago.. I went up to the M3 Pro 12/18 core 36GB RAM with 1TB SSD. I like it a lot! So far, I haven't been hitting the swap space at all, super fast, and the battery lasts all day. I'm pretty impressed with it.

@@christopherbuckel9180 Hey, I got the 36GB one and it's much better. Not hitting the swap like the 18GB one.

another apple causality.

That’s weird, my m1 easily handles resolve. Do you have studio?

You are literally asking if one of the most powerful laptops out there will be enough for you... and if he says no, won't you buy it ...

I’d recommend the 14" Pro with an M3Pro and 18GB RAM. As for storage, it depends on how much you need. Personally I’d recommend 1TB but that of course comes with a heftier price tag attached to it.

For AI and engineering you really are working yourself into a corner with an ARM Mac

If you’re working with machine learning you really need to consider RAM and processing speed. I wouldn’t go the Air route here.

Don’t get a Mac

Then what do you suggest?@@matthewfraney9108

same!

Same!

I know the max is always a bit, an hour or two depending on the workflow. As for the upgraded pro I’d imagine there some difference but probably not as drastic.

Thanks for the explanation!

Sleep mode always have been an issue on macs.

How is it after 2 weeks ? Is 512gb enough ?

It could be possible but I think it’s more to do with the bandwidth and media engine as some other commenters have mentioned

​i would like to add that the M3 Pro has fewer performance cores and more efficiency cores. Some programs use only the performance cores. THANK YOU FOR THE VIDEO

Appreciate you watching my man

@@ColeCaccamise🙏🏽

I thought 16GB of unified memory was like 32GB of RAM?

@@psilocypher I am not sure what you mean, but with unified, it means that GPU and Ram memory are one. With apple it also has a swap, which will then kick in if you exceed your unified memory, this is why apple's performance can function so well even on 8Gb, but you will put more wear on your SSD due to caching. Hence why I recommend more Unified Memory

you can currently get a 14 m1 pro on amazon renewed for like 1200. i think thats a crazy deal. there really isn't much reason to go for the m2 or m3 pro over an m1 pro when its still super capable. then you can pocket the difference and upgrade the storage/ram

@@ColeCaccamiseSo you save $500-600 to get a used machine with less CPU? I think the M3 Pro would be just fine for someone who’s never owned a Mac. However, I could understand not upgrading if you already had the M1.

There are times where my Mac gets hot for no real reason. Has happened with both this and my m1 at some points

Never, ever, use Chrome or any Google service. No privacy at all and memory hungering!

my 2013 MBP 15" is finally starting to give up, 11 years on. I just bought a M3 MBP 16" and it arrives in a few weeks. I figure since I've made it this long on the 2013 i7 (amazing considering I do professional work), it would already be a MASSIVE performance increase going to M3 Pro and that M3 Max would just be overkill. I opted to bump the storage to 2TB instead

Resolve studio

yeah the max chip probably would've been a better choice

not really

@@ColeCaccamise not really ? Which means u do have some ? Do u recommend putting a shell case on it ?

I expected two gens later it to be a somewhat noticeable difference, but turns out you need to get a much more upgrade version

Mine hasn’t

And how does the age of the CPU matter here in any way? These CPUs are all on the same architecture, the only difference is the IPC on M3 got better. Is there anything you can do on M3 Pro but can’t do on M1 Pro other than ray tracing? The only difference is that M3 does some tasks faster. Same screen, same keyboard, same speakers, touchpad, chassis. I rather buy older M1 Max with 32GB RAM rather than base M3 pro with cut down memory bandwidth and 18/512 config. I rather buy older but better config for the same price and upgrade 3 years later than buying inferior hardware for the same price because it will be supported longer. I would never want to have 18GB RAM in 2027…

Apple makes products absolete 7 years after they stop selling them. Older processors will go obsolete quicker than newer ones. Not being able to update the OS eventually stinks. If you’d rather replace in a few years, ok. I’d rather get something better now and keep it for 8-9 years.

​@@Maineguy42 36GB/1TB M3 Pro is 50-60% more expensive than 32GB/1TB M1 Pro. I rather get that M1 Pro now and later switch to M5 instead of buying M3 now for that 60% higher price and waiting for M8 or whatever apple is gonna release later.

@@patent5421 I don't think the M1 Pro is even sold new? So you'd rather spend less and get a refurbished, 3 year old laptop. That's fine, there's nothing wrong with that. I'd rather spend more and get the newest. Hard to argue against that too.

Did you do it?

Yeah I didn’t realize this until uploading. Will probably go with the max chip next time around

Full disclosure, the Max is so rediculous and unnecessary for most things. I had a 5-layer Hvec-10-bit 1 hour project in Davinci Resolve. I had a similar 40 min project in Capcut. I had noise reduction on a lot of parts etc but they were both heavy projects. I exported Davinci Resolve and Capcut at the same time while creating the thumbnails in Photoshop and had a 4K KZfaq stream playing on one of 3 4K monitors. My fans were audible for sure but no lag or slowdown. I also had maybe 40 chrome tabs open because I'm a recruiter with profiles open. I didn't bother to close them. I had Krisp noise reduce a call that occurred during that time, no hickups at all. It was almost like the computer wasn't doing anything. So, would I normally do that? No. In fact, no way. I just wanted to see what was possible. It was idiotic. It's all marketing bro. If I had to replace my system with the M1 Max right now, I wouldn't shed a tear. Trust me, be very happy with your system, it's awesome. Even 3D rendering in Blender... I have an M1 Macbook Air still and it does great. I have some old projects there for 3d Printing. Is it a AAA title gaming render? No, but it's not simple. I'm keeping my system for a long time and recommend the same for everyone that has an M anything.. @@ColeCaccamise

coming up ;)

😂😂😂 I was thinking the same thing!

@@kyleamaker the repetitive intonation pattern is so annoying

@@arjealis97 I agree. Like a really annoying loud whisper.

can you share your review, if you have done the upgrade.

It essentially feels the same, day to day tasks feel slightly snappier but not by much

what are you saying bro

Appreciate the explanation

I remember reading that at launch but completely forgot about it. Makes sense.