@paul Thanks to better E-cores performance, M3 Pro should be faster in general multithreaded perf - but I bet there'll be workflows that would show decrease in performance relative to M2 Pro or maybe even M1 Pro 🤔
Didn't Intel basically did similar stuff with their asymmetric architecture within their lineup? 🤔
@paul Looks like it's spec'd similarly to the M2 13" base model it replaces, except with double the storage (the 13" M2 base model only came with 256GB).
The MacBook “Pro" has ‘Two Thunderbolt / USB 4 (USB-C) ports'. The MacBook Pro has ‘Three Thunderbolt 4 (USB-C) ports’. I have no idea what the difference is (other than +1).
@paul the entry level ‘Pro’ only does one external display. We’re at the M3 now and still only have a single display controller on the entry level chip. It’s $3500 AUD to drive two external displays natively now.
@paul USB4 is this whole 'nother bag of hurt "standard" which includes optional features, which means there's even more "maybes" associated with that singular port.
There's no reliable way to know what the port (or indeed cable) is capable of without just.. kind of trying it and hoping? I have a USB4 dock collecting dust because of this. The devices I got it for all support "USB4," but in a way that it basically doesn't work except in some very specific cases, maybe.
It's great.
@paul yeah I saw that too, it's utter blasphemy. there are videos on internet of facebook making 8 GB configs chug, forget running anything actually demanding.
@paul I’m with you. I couldn’t conceive of purchasing any computer with only 8GB of RAM these days. But at the same time I’m running Sonoma on my 2016 12 inch MacBook with 8GB of RAM. It’s a couch machine for surfing and email and chatting and FaceTime etc. And it’s actually fine for all of that. So I guess it is defensible to sell a Mac for that use case with only 8GB. Sure, it seems odd to buy a MacBook Pro for that use case, but I bet a lot of folks do.
@paul More CPU on the Max is another upselling opportunity, I suspect more CPU performance sells better than more GPU performance generally speaking. 8+4 was a great sweet spot IMO
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