performance was better than i expected on the M3 Max M3 Pro details to come

Dave pioneered the nose test as a new benchmark for all laptops. Incredible

I'm glad Apple nailed the fingerprint tests, the fingerprints you get on Razer's laptops are so annoying

Tim Cook should present all future laptops to be nose tested and call it the Dave's Nose Test. The DNT.

Nose rub test should be a standard way of testing resistance. Dave is always ahead of the curve.

its not only fingerprint resistant, its also nose-print resistant. Love your videos.

THANK YOU for including comparisons for Logic Pro, I feel like most reviewers focus on video editing since that's their forte but it's a major factor for a lot of ppl looking to upgrade. The laptop seems very appealing for folks still running an intel macbook like myself

Thanks for keeping this short and to the point rather than the obligatory 10+ minutes.

Apple's pricing model for RAM upgrades was completely expected but it's still disappointing.

I'm glad you did the nose test. I do it myself. It is, by far, the most reliable and technical way to test it. Worth a sub, guys!

Just wanted to say that your tests are pretty sweet. Like, I didn't expect a Logic Pro tracks with Serum and Omnisphere but that's 100% relevant. I like the Xcode WebKit test too. Thanks for making these kinds of benchmarks. They're way more "real life" than some of the synthetic ones I see from other reviewers.

Dave is so great at reviewing stuff which really are "immersive" 01:08

I definitely care about the color, and thanks for covering it, I was waiting for reviews to come out just for this !

Seriously: I love when people get way to deep into details like the microscope view of the Color because it just elevates the amount of thought went into a device like this and how perfectly they are or can be sometimes

Perfect video! to the point and mentioned everything I needed to know! Thanks David 🔥🔥

Wow, such dark and colorful graphs. Amazing! Thank you!

Super hyped for this model.

I like this color a lot. The midnight blue had a cool undertone which IMO did not work well with the black keys (blue + black = meh). But this time we have a soft anodized black thats neutral in temperature which is super nice.

Excellent review Dave, very technical as usual. Thank you.

Thank you for clearing that dust spec at 0:40 from the Top Dave, it really bothered me for 4 seconds it was there.

The only tech youtuber that will rub their nose on a laptop to test its smudge resistance. Dave is truly innovative.

Ah, the nose smudge test lol. A new test for all KZfaqrs now...

I appreciate your straight-to-the-point approach .

The minimalist intro with a brief beep is the BEST in the whole youtube by far .

The difference between the baseline M1 vs M3 is small, so small I’m considering getting an M1 MacBook Air after having used MacBook Pro’s all these years. There’s some pretty sweet deals out there now.

Now we dub that test - the D2D's Nose Test

you knw.. sometimes its really touching seeing us growing old together. thank you for all the effort.

impressively concise as always!

Looking forward to comparision between M1 Pro and M3 Pro. I'm deciding if it's worth the upgrade.

What i love about these newer macs coming out is that the price of the older m1 and m2 will go down. I really want to snag an m2 air to go along with my wifes m1 macbook pro

Your smudge resistance test is golden.

i love watching your amazing explanations

*PETITION TO MAKE THE NOSE TEST OFFICIAL FOR EVERY TECH REVIEWER*

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ Dave cut straight to the heart about why there may be some last hold-outs to pulling the trigger on a $5k Space Black M3 Max. It was really the only potential annoyance left unanswered. Apple Silicon’s relatively decent track record mitigates most of the other runner-up concerns (throttling, etc) 👍

Thanks for the straightforward benchmark

Hey Dave, love your content! Would you do a Black Friday or Buyers Guide video? With all sales coming up, a guide to find the best deals would be nice for people on a budget.

Dave, please include the M1 versions in your performance comparison charts for the future tests. Many people are wondering if it's worth the upgrade from M1 to M3. Thanks!

The most interesting one to cover is the entry level M3 Pro (11 core), due to being first "reasonable" buy in the lineup, e.g. entry level 14" M2 Pro equivalent, rather than the full decked 12 core model. At least from a consumer (not youtuber) perspective, where you want some of that graphics performance for occasional game, better cooling, faster memory, two screen support. In EU that upgrade to 12 core is $270, on top of already painful $2700 for 11 core version so it's hard to justify.

Love how you focused on the fingerprint resistant coating. Everything else can be read from website.

The deep "hmm" sound in the intro before the beep so satisfying!

More rendering benchmarks please

@dave2d you need to test AI on these as well. It's a huge market now and the real reason most professionals are looking at each platform and weighing pros and cons. It should be straightforward to do stable diffusion benchmarks and get iterations/sec, but I wonder if there's some broader AI workloads.

Dave rocking the new look

one of the best and funniest tech creators out there. cheers Dave from a fellow Canadian.

The 40 core GPU looks very promising, in fact as per your demonstration it reaches 4080 laptop level performance in some benchmarks. All that is left to do for Apple is to get developers together and actually optimize their games for the imac and MacBooks like what they did with the A17 pro. That would be phenomenal..

Marques is running late on his video on this. 😂

Thank you DAVE!

Man shout out to this guy! He gave us the best smudge test everrrrrr

conclusion: dave has oily skin

If only these did not start with 8GB of ram standard ...

Nice, short and to the point - usual Dave2D quality. The nose test should be the standard.

Dave, you just invented the nose/smudge test! Nicely done!

Theoretical GPU performance in the M3 Max blew mind, I mean, it was compared to one of the best dedicated GPUs ever, and is just slightly behind. That blew my mind, integrated graphics almost head to head with RTX 4080 performance, that I've never heard of until today, not to mention, Mac is well optimized to use that power so I can confidently say that it might fair better than the RTX 4080 in real world tasks

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I just upgraded to the baseline M3 Max from the 2019 16 inch MBP. I freaking love this machine!

love your videos bro

No dorky music and bio tests his hardware. Subscribed!

Typical Dave2D style review, straight to the point, doesn’t waste viewer time.

Waiting for that future video!

2:26 That backtrack to "unless its white and teal" made me laugh so hard 😂😂

I recently bought an Asus Zenbook Duo which is a dual screen laptop. I had no idea how much I'd use the second screen but I use it nearly each time I'm on the computer. So many cool features. Very fast and does everything I need. I just which Apple would come out with something - anything that is super creative and innovative and makes us go "wow"!

the nose fingerprint test was a very advanced way of testing and I think you're onto something there

Love the hair style man! 😮

Thanks for the fingerprint part which is very important and none talked about it 👍

I love this new nose test! I want it to be incorporated into every review, please! 😂

Got to appreciate the dedication to the craft with a nose test

No waste of time talks, just straight to the points. The Dave2D style, I love it.

Nice Hair Dave, Great Review as Always!

Dope to hear the coating is actually less finger printy

loving the hair Dave

Great animations, keep it up!

Great video. Thanks. It would actually be awesome to see a comparison between Macbook Pro M3 and Macbook Air M2.

Waiting a long time for this review, and the first thing I see is Dave rubbing his nose all over it.

Petition to check every finish with ‘dave’s oily nose’ test. Hats off to the Dedication, my guy😂❤💯

Great review, as usual! I don't know, but to me it seems that the metal rt setting for the macbook was not turned on in the blender render. I know that this is among the few tests where the m3 max is faster than even the m2 ultra.

You did a test comparison doing Logic Pro and Serum / Omnipshere - Great Stuff! I'm most interested so see how the 12 core M3 Pro compares to the 12 core M2 Pro or Max on this. Ir's really surprising how close the M3 Base is compared to the M2 Max actually. Thanks!

Cinebench 2024.1 GPU test already supports RT cores. Maxon announced it shortly after the M3 Max release.

The video felt like it ended before it started. On a side note, I find it so real and true when you say about picking laptops based on colour 😂

Dave, the only guy I trust for a true analysis about a product 👍👍❤️👃🤩

Hope that nose-rub wasn't your 'Jump the Shark' moment 😅 Nice review as always!

Beautiful color -- I will go for it if I can be convinced that it won't wear off over time, which the silver-colored model won't do. I was all for Space Gray with previous MacBooks until I noticed white spots appearing on mine, which are supposedly caused by oxidation. I normally take care of my things, so it likely wasn't due to abuse, but maybe I could have cleaned it more often and that would have prevented or reduced the spots. IDK.

Overall i think the conversation this yr for m3 chips is that m3 pro chip is similar to the sentiments of the entire m2 gen. A stop gap generation that ideally wouldnt be pushed out, but for time, development and cost sake had to exist. If the 3nm yields were better or the process just more refined and tuned, we likely wouldve gotten the usual 8-4 config of performance and efficiency cores or maybe even a 10-4 config.

Dave, Nose rubbing testing procedure must be patented! 😂😂😂

Hi Dave. I love your tech videos, but I am also an aquascaper and I've noticed your scape on the other end of your room. Do you consider making a video about your tank? Your Rotala has a crazy good reds, I would imagine the nitrates are at 0? What is your fertiliser routine?

I kinda agree with Dave's colour theory about smudges, i have asus tuf f15 with a matte gray aluminium top and it's good at not showing smudges.

I'd love a comparison of the binned M3 Max 14 core vs the higher end M3 Max 16 core. Does the 300 GB/s bandwidth of the 14 core Max actually create a bottleneck compared to the full 400 GB/s bandwidth of the 16 core Max with respect to tasks that are intensive on the CPU, memory, and/or GPU? Or does the lower CPU and GPU core count mean the SOC can never fully take advantage of more than 300 GB/s of bandwidth anyway? A lot of LLM hobbyists are avoiding the lower binned chip because that is apparently a strictly bandwidth constrained task.

Dave pioneering the Nose Rub Test 😂

This channel continues getting better, nose test should be the norm!

I'm just so enamored by Dave's hair that I forgot to look at the laptop

I would love some emphasis in comparing the M1 Pro with the base M3, as it seems out what I've been gathering from other videos, that they are quite similar in performance (crazy!). I use my M1 Pro 14" for work, and still find it more than capable enough to edit videos and photos for social media on the Adobe Cloud. Knowing that others could get the same performance and usability from the now base 14" Pro with the base M3 chip as you used to get from the M1 Pro, could be huge for many buyers. My unbinned M1 Pro with 16gb Ram and 1Tb SSD is still a more than capable machine, but it was a 2700€ investment here in the Netherlands, much more than the new base M3 chip 14" Macbok Pro

Be interesting to see the wear and tear / durability of the darker grey coating on aluminium - the midnight blue continues the show the issue with darker shades applied to aluminium, notably where the sockets are for USB C etc. The space grey on the Macbook has faired well so far, but I'm not so careless or blunt forced with my cables - will be interesting to see people's space black variant in 6 months-1 year's time

Forget the bend test, it’s all about the nose smudge resistance.

Damn Dave straight Bambi'd this shit. Never change Dave

Hey Dave, I'm still waiting to see if you're planning to upload a M3 Mac Book Pro Review (lineup). As always great videos loved to hear your thoughts on what Apple tried to do there. Cheers.

Always have to watch MKBHD and Dave2D videos first to come up with your decision if you'll purchase a new device or not

I think you need to get rid of the screen you have on the right (I assume you have a different angle there) but it gets a bit weird to see you look there so often (maybe some kind of teleprompter like technology if you really need to look at that?). Keep up the good work though, your content is really great

I’m heading to the shops tomorrow to do nose tests on everything. Everything.

Would love to see those graphs stay on screen longer

I mean that is why we love Dave the only youtuber to do a nose test and to put laptop materials under a microscope 🤣🤣🤣

Eagerly waiting for the M3 Ultra.