Apple upgrade pricing for RAM and storage is utterly obscene compared to component costs.

I love your editing, your video. Great job! 👏

Your consistent way of doing things is much appreciated. Keep it up. Staying fresh on that will be the challenge. Thanks again!

Great! highly appreciate that display hzrt you've included😂.. Thanks man!

Best compare I’ve seen. Thank you.

The best video thanks for your time Tom

Great comparison. About to pull the trigger!

Outstanding review, mate! I got my M3 Air 13" 16GB/1TB Midnight about 2 weeks ago. Gotta say it's a gorgeous piece of tech that performs flawlessly. Can't wait to take it to Vegas in May for my next contract gig.

First time viewer. New subscriber. Enjoyed your video very much and very accessible, but like other creators, you also said if you're doing rendering, 3D work and video editing, go for the pro. Can you define 'video editing' when it comes to a hobby? I use Filmora 13 and do some editing at weekends on a very old Air 11 (struggling) or occasionally in the evening after work.Videos from trips, family events or something creative I filmed around the city. I'm looking to upgrade to FCP when I purchase a new MacBook laptop, but when you mentioned the pro for video editing, would you say my amount of work falls into that category or will a MB Air 15'' suffcie? Many thanks.

We appreciate your reviews. Keep up the good work.

An important thing to note is that the MBA and base M3 MBP have only Thunderbolt 3 ports if you care about that. You don't get Thunderbolt 4 unless you go to the M3 Pro MBP. In terms of value if you upgrade all three to 16GB RAM/512GB storage, the base M3 Pro MBP 11c/14c with a better cpu, better display, three TB4 ports, and 2GB extra RAM seems like the best value (15" MBA w/16GB/512GB = $1699, base M3 MBP w/16GB/512GB = $1799, base M3 Pro MBP w/18GB/512GB = $1999). The only thing that may be able to touch the base M3 Pro MBP in terms of value would be the 13" MBA with 16GB/512GB for $1499 if you can deal with the smaller 13.6" display and 2 TB3 ports. Personally, I was able to get a base M3 Pro MBP 11c/14gpu for $1529 on the Apple Certified Refurbished store with an educational discount =).

Nailed it! Great review 😊

I just upgraded from the 13" M1 MacBook Air to the 15" M3 MacBook Air. Everything is better of course and I see a 2.75x speed improvement on one of the things I do (tar --c --xz ---options xz:compression-level=9). But the new 15" M3 MBA speakers sound like they have a bit less treble. Maybe this is because the old 13" M1 MBA had speaker grills facing you and the new 15" M3 MBA depended on reflected sound from the screen?

I love the twin action for discussion and debate idea. You should explore that further.

Thanks for the Review, i Would like to know if i can use the macbook M3 in clamshell Mode for a while. Or ir does get hot with simple tasks. Thank you

Thanks, would you see a difference in graphics display between the two (air vs pro), if both were hooked up to an external monitor? (say 60hrz).

nice video, already have a Mac Pro 13" with M2, no isuss no problem, is it worth switching to 14" M3? or to MacAir with M3? Anyway great video Be safe & God Bless

so i have an iphone now and , a windows desktop for gaming , I was thinking about getting a mac book pro for general media use, I would be hooking up the mac book to my current computer monitor , I was thinking perhaps the 14 inch mac book pro with m3 pro and 18 gb unified memory. Is this a good choice for general media and some gaming ?

I wanted a 15" screen, so the 14" MBP was no option for me. Writing this now on my 15" Air with 1TB and 24GB RAM - it replaced my 2018 15" Intel MBP. ;-)

I'm listening to the audio tests on my phone, and honestly, think they all sound amazing 😅

Hey Tom, great video! I'm heading to medical school soon and looking into MacBooks. Any recommendations on which model would be durable enough to last through 5+ years of intense studying and school work? Also, are there any specific upgrades you suggest for the Macbook? Thanks in advance for your insights!

Thank you dear I have decided to get a pro m2 or 3 for my workspace

New to ya channel, first off. I was cool with everything until I saw the self-to-self fist bump. After that……...you had a subscriber! Lmao. I dig the creativity and the comical aspects of the video. It shows effort while the video delivers solid information. Dope job man. Real talk.

I actually have a 16 inch M2 Pro with 16 giga ram and a one terabyte hard drive. It has the 12 core CPU and I think 19 core GPU. For a lot of the video work that I do, there’s no difference really between that and the M2 air that my wife uses with eight giga ram, and the 512 gig SSD. I’m now thinking that the next laptop I get is going to be whatever the most current air is with 16 gig ram and I’ll use the external storage devices and I think I’ll be happy.

Please, does the Space Black color on the M3 MacBook peel off over time? I heard that the black color peels off over time, and the white under the Space Black paint will show up (mostly where the ports are and trackpad). Is it true? Please help me decide; this is the first MacBook that I want to buy and i want it to last me for more than 4years.

How do you feel the new M3 Air compares to the original Macbook Pro M1 (wiht same amount of RAM, 16Gb)?

*I waited for the 15" M3 MacBook Air to see what changes had been made. It's pretty much the same except for the M3 chip. When I spec'd it up to what I wanted, the price was only $100 less than a 14" M3 MacBook Pro with similar RAM and storage. For that extra $100, the pro has a superior display, superior sound, more ports, more power, more speed, brighter screen, a fan to dissipate heat and reduce throttling, 120Hz instead of 60Hz, better mics, etc. I'm a MacBook Air kind of user, but that extra $100 (in my case) for all those features was a no brainer. Wish it came in Midnight.*

Great vid

What would you say is better the 16gb Ram MBA or the base MBP?

how do I set it up the stats like you're showing such as thermal, CPU usage

Going after M3 Pro this year, professional developer, prices are high but as i'm still using my macbook pro 2013 that works like from the first day i want an upgrade finally for the forthcoming 10 years to come lol

Hey Chaps! What laptop are you using right now?? CORRECTION: MBP M3 only has one fan (the M3 Pro/Max variants have 2 fans)

I have the M1 Air and still love it. It really changed the game for me in terms of performance. Next time i get a new laptop I will also replace my desktop and just have a docking setup available when i want to use it.

The base Pro with the basic M3 chip only has one fan, and, not surprisingly, doesn’t handle thermals as well as the M3 Pro Pro, which does have two fans.

Do you have a comparison between the iMac with the M3 chip and MacBook Pro with also M3?

I just bought an M3 MacBook Air, speced it up to 24 gigs of ram and 512 storage, I have it docked 90% of the time with 2 external monitors, I play wow, run KZfaq, some safari tabs open at once and the temps are within the 82c ish area with all that going on.

Is the performance of the air better than a MacBook Pro 2019? worth upgrading?

Heck I use my laptop for productivity, Streaming content, work like Microsoft Apps and Apple apps. So i am gonna stick with my M1 Air for a while. Probably another 3 years or so. Good laptop for everyday regular use for work and less demanding projects

What are you using to see your stats in the menubar like that? I want to do the same on my new M3 Mac Pro! x

what about getting an M1 Air on refurbed apple store?!?!? would you recommend that? I like the gold colour!

Nice video

Hey there! Nice video. I would like to ask for your advice about a new laptop. In my country if i spec a 16gb +512gb 13'' MBA it is 50$ cheaper than the base M3 MBP. I definetly like the screen and the bigger battery of MBP, but will it be as futureproof as the Air? Thank you!!!

Considering I am a software developer which one is your suggestion

I have the M1 Pro (base) 14" and it's still going strong to this day. Don't upgrade unless you really need to.

I’d love to buy a new MacBook since my MacBook Air is from 2014. Battery is more or less dead but it still works ok. The biggest issue for me are the ridiculous upgrade price tags for storage, ram etc.

I wonder whether the macbook air m3 has the same touchpad or trackpad such not smooth and not working doing like macbook pro 2012. Hopefully you will talk about MacBook Air m3 touchpad later after using it after half or a year, thank you. And also the screenshot after several screenshot it will stop working and loading and loading in macbook air m1. Hopefully m3 not like this.

Looking to upgrade from my trusty 2015 iMac i5. I'm a music producer and use Logic and likely need 32GB RAM (if not now, definitely soon as software becomes more demanding). I want a portable solution but £2 to £2.5k is a lot of money. What would my best bang for buck machine be?

Got the MacBook pro m3 refurbished, not bad so far

Great... Bravoo

Thank you for putting my mind @ ease. I just upgraded from an M1 MBA that I'd upgraded quite a bit for "future proofing"....long story short, I found myself replacing that MBA on the same cadence as all my other Macs because of a nasty bug with the trackpad and keyboard-it'd go away and come back after a few updates...so I decided to turn 'er in :) When I say that Apple has that upgrade funnel woven tighter than pack of crochet braids...Its no exaggeration when I say...make one little upgrade and you find yourself on the for just $100 it makes more sense to get "this" slippery slope; and they got you for $2200 when you came in to spend $999. I resisted....but boy oh boy was I in my head about...maybe I should've upgraded something. FINALLY AN HONEST REVIEW FOR DAILY USERS!!!

thinking of upgrading to the m3 air from my slow 2020 intel 13 inch pro

I like the idea of buying the older models to save some money. I just treated myself to a base 14" M2 Pro MBP, which I purchased brand new at a discount for $1,200 + tax. It is replacing my base 2017 13" MBP, which had replaced my first Mac, a base 2011 13" MBA. Getting 6-7 years out of these macs really makes it worthwhile but I refuse to pay for upgraded anything. Hopefully this one lasts me until 2030. Seems so far away. Fingers crossed.

Just ordered my M3 Air that comes in next week. I only upgraded the RAM to 16GB and paid the additional $200 but did not upgrade the SSD storage from 256 to 512GB SSD as that’s another $200. I just felt that to upgrade both and pay $400 more totaling up to $1499.99 just seems over the top and is getting closer to MacBook Pro range.

Should I change my macbook pro M1 (2020) for the new Air M3?

I went for a basic MBP 14 inch and I was worried about 8gb ram but honestly have not ran into any issue's even when editing some video's. Battery is so good swell!

I keep looking at MacBooks and always end up with the conclusion that I should go with the Pro (in my case I would like the M3Pro) I just can't see the base or the airs doing it for me. Especially when I need to at least upgrade the Ram... So silly of Apple

I really wanted to see the comparison of 16 GB Air and 8 GB Pro, thank you so much! It turns out that there is not much difference between them, and the Pro is still somewhat faster? I am very tormented by this topic, I want to buy a laptop for graphic design, 3D modeling and video editing (and rarely games), but I am afraid that 8 GB will not be enough for me, but 16 on the Pro is too expensive, and on the Air it is incredibly hard to find in my country. Should I choose an 8 GB Pro and won't I regret it? I really don't want the macbook to lag

If Apple gave me MacBook Air with Mini LED, I would buy that all day. MacBook air in my opinion is one of the better designed machines of all time. The problem is it doesn't have Mini LED. Hey Tom, long time fan here. When you will publish your new LG OLED monitor video, can you please add a couple of lines for me comparing the MacBook Pro's image quality vs LG OLED monitor's. Image quality in terms of inky blacks and overall picture quality specially for watching movies and YT. Appreciate your videos.

great video as always, what is the temp monitoring software you use please ?

I got the 16 inch! Love it! I don’t have a TV though 🤪

I am a Graphic Designer and a Photographer from India who works on multiple layers in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom Classic, Figma and Canva, also I am planning to start learning video editing using Adobe's Premier Pro or Davinci Resolve and motion graphics using Adobe After Effects. Currently, I am using an AUS ROG Zephyrus G14 from 2020 with 16 gigs of memory and 1 TB of storage (this is the base model btw which has a Ryzen 5 4600 HS CPU and a Nvidia GTX 1650 ti GPU). I usually have multiple apps running and this is how it might look on average: 1. Photoshop 2. Illustrator 3. Figma (along with Photoshop on rare scenarios) 4. Lightroom Classic (sometimes along with Photoshop) 3. A browser (2 different ones like Brave and Firefox sometimes), 4. Apple Music, 5. Windows file explorer (4 to 5 tabs), 6. A communication app (like Slack or Teams) and 7. Notion. So now can you tell me whether a person like me can get away with a decently specced Macbook Air (like a 15-inch model with 24 gigs of memory and 1 TB of storage) instead of a much more powerful Macbook Pro?

Thanks

So the pro can only handle two external monitors if you upgrade to the M3 Pro chip, Correct? Two external monitors are important to me, so I think that requires an automatic upgrade to the M3 pro chip, which I don’t otherwise need.

What would you recommend for uni? I’m starting in July and have a crappy Dell Inspiron which has served its purpose during high school. I’m looking at MacBooks. As for my course, I know it’s gonna involve MATLAB and some data science stuff but Idk whether I’m gonna need that extra headroom of the M3 Pro chip tbh. For me it’s either the 15 inch M3 Air or the 14 inch M3 MacBook Pro. But then I do want the space black plus I think I could use a M3 Pro for at least 6 years?

Just bought the M2 Pro 16g/1TB good enough for me. Actually like the older design from the Pro more…

As an accountant? Which is better and less expensivr? Mcbook air or mcbook pro?

Can we get a video suggesting laptops at different price points? That would be so helpful! At least for me...

As much as I love the lightweightness of the Air, I can't do a fanless laptop with washed out blacks.

Imo if you can find a refurbished 16gb 512 MacBook Air 15 it’s good value .

I've got an m1 air with 16gb of ram. As long as they're trying to sell me anything below that amount of ram in the Base specs, I'm not buying a new one.

I have just bought a base 15 inch M3 MBA. Since most KZfaqrs whinge about the memory I did give this some thought, but I've been using a base M1 MBA for over 3 years with no issues of memory pressure. I bought the M3 with 10% discount in a sale. What I wanted was the larger screen which benefits my main use which is with spreadsheets. I use my MBA for keeping financial accounts for a couple of organisations. Such documents are generally quite small and last year's accounts comprise a couple of thousand files taking up about 500 MB of SSD space. So obviously the 256 GB SSD has plenty of room, and the M1 MBA has several years of accounts and related stuff and is still half empty. The MBA screens are absolutely fine for my work. Spreadsheets don't require high refresh rates or HDR capabilities. Battery life - I do everything on battery power and charge maybe once per week, if that. Of course I don't edit video, watch movies or play games or do anything else heavy duty, and I don't sit in front of the thing all the time - I have a social life. But these base machines are good workhorses for those of us who are not KZfaqrs.

Well done ✅.

In my opinion the way to go about it is to move to the m3 pro as the ram upgrade is already included.

I always go for the Air 💻

Apple be robbing us with those memory and ram upgrade prices. I just recently bought MacBook air m2 15 and the choice of upgrade the memory or not drove me nuts

60Hz display and 8gb ram on a laptop costing well over 1000 euros 😂😂😂

With an air either external fan it’s just as good

i got a m1 air 16 gb 1 tb for $1000 very high value

Please unbox the samsung book 4 ultra 🙏

The base model RAM/DISK size are not 2024. The upgrade pricing is ridiculous. I went for a used "like-new" M1 with all the required upgrades, for a bargain.

To be honest, if the screen is saving me battery over pro motion, I wouldn't mind have that 60hrz and couple it up with a high refresh monitor at home.

The M2 Air might be a good value, but doesn't the base model have a slower SSD drive?

Which mac should I get as a AI ML student?

Great info. The M1 looks good value at around £750/£800.

The M2 generation Macbook Pro was so much better than M3 Macbook Pros (except for the M3 Max version). Last generation you got with a base Macbook Pro a M2 Pro (which completely destroys the M3 in most of the tasks), 16GB ram and 512GB storage. Even if you take the M3 Pro in some cases its a little bit faster, slower or neck to neck (so no progress in perfromance), but the M3 Pro version costs even more than last years base Macbook Pro version with M2 Pro . For me the M3 Macbook pros are very underwhelming. The Air should only get the M3 and the Pros should start with M3 Pro and 16GB of ram.

What are you using for the temperature monitoring? Good review, I need to show this to my son, who got the M2 Pro and is bragging its better than my M2 Air.

Anyone got the Asus zenbook oled 14inch? Torn between that and the air m3 ...

Economics -Making proper choices with limited resources.

Which should you buy? Definitely not any entry level 8gb ram macbook.

@2:56 space black*

MacBook air M3 15" ( 16gb 512gb) or MacBook Pro M3 14" ( 8gb 512gb ) my needs are photo editing , light video editing and gaming

For the price of the base model pro, you might as well opt for the base model pro with m3 pro chip instead. On Amazon this is £1899 at the moment, so a premium but it makes more sense. With you on the m2 air, no need to go m3 unless again, it’s a deal. £926 on Amazon or £899 education makes them great buys

Sorry but I just don't understand the 15 in air at all. The 13 In is lovely and 12gb ram would have been wonderful and future proofed it for 3 to 4 years but £200 for an upgrade to 16gb is driving people like me away....shame as it's a great machine

I can't do a 60 hz screen anymore lmao, also no fan. Macbook Pro ftw

It's a no brainer. Get the Air. You are going to need a couple of small KEF LSX anyway. 😉

Gotta refurbished m2 air 16/512 for £1189. Think that’s a sweet spot…. Plenty on the apple refurb site

Pro all the way. Too much thermal throttling on the Air. Proven by Max.

I am still using my M1 Pro 14 MacBook!

You stated the base 14 inch MacBook Pro M3 has two fans. It only has one fan.

None. Keep using your M1 :)