Hey friends, Andrew here - hope you're well! The new M3 MacBooks were launched only 10 months
after the M2 came to Market that's as fast as these chipsets are so I had a thought my main
Workhorse which is this M2 Max MacBook Pro it's still more powerful than 99% of lap tops out
there so you might be thinking well what's the point of upgrading but what if the new M3 Pro
here was both faster and more affordable than my M2 Max well after 1 month with the 14in MacBook
M3 Pro here is my full honest review and Apple's strategy here is not what I thought it would be so
let's start with the things that are new to the M3 MacBook that I've experienced over the last month
the display has has received a noteworthy upgrade it's been bumped up from 500 nits to 600 nits so
an almost 20% jump and day-to-day use it makes it slightly easier to work in really bright ambient
lights or outside inir sunlight so I have seen a usable difference there but nothing gamechanging
though everything else about the mini LED display remains unchanged over two generations now still
an amazing display for all lines of work and even gaming but more on that later the other obvious
new draw card is the new space black color which I jumped for immediately like a lot of you I love
the color black for my tech and I've been waiting for a black colored MacBook but unfortunately as
you might be able to see already I feel like space black is an apple marketing term it's
not nearly as dark as the product shots make it out to be and depending on time of day lighting
and what it's sitting next to to as a point of comparison it looks more like a slightly darker
shade of space gray in fact it seems lighter than my midnight colored M2 MacBook Air which I still
love and use daily but yeah as you can see here the midnight color has a nicer darker Hue in my
opinion so if like me you were hoping for a jet black MacBook this isn't it just yet Apple did
do a great job though making space black far more fingerprint resistant than the midnight MacBook
Air that's thanks to an apparent new anodization process um after about 7 Days of use though I did
start to see some serious fingerprints and smudges but that's to be expected even with Apple's new
anodization process overall great color to have for dark mode lovers it's just not as dark as
product renders so the real worthy change here is the M3 chipset you don't need another person
to tell you Apple silicon is fast we already know it's really fast but like I said the real reason
I chose to buy the 14in M3 Pro is to see if it's able to replace my 14in M2 Max with technically
what is a more affordable MacBook generation later the M3 Pro and after 1 month of use I
guess this is the part that surprised me the M3 Pro is on par if not noticeably faster than
my M2 Max MacBook it's surprising not because my M2 Max cost almost a whole $1,000 more at launch
but because the M3 Pro is doing more with less you see the CPU core layout has changed for the
M3 with a now equal amount of performance and efficiency cores 6 and six whereas previously
in my M2 Max it has eight performance cores and four efficiency that's fascinating yet on
the geekbench multicore test I've recorded a score of 15,18 18 on the M2 Max and 15,43 on
the M3 Pro and almost a doubling in single core performance so in some ways this generation's Pro
is the last generation Max only 10 months later and a big reason for this leap in performance is
the smaller 3 nanom fabrication technology so in less technical words Apple has managed to cram
more transistors into a smaller space which means it's able to perform more simultaneous tasks at a
faster rate all while using less power and I've been seeing this translate nicely into real life
scenarios exporting a large 14-minute 4K video on Final Cut Pro took about 5 minutes 30 seconds on
the M2 Max while it exported in Just 4 minutes 45 seconds on the M3 Pro similar numbers on Premier
Pro 2 and these numbers are surprising I didn't expect the M3 Pro to destroy my M2 Max exporting
and editing multiple 60 megapixel like a RWS simultaneously is really rapid to with zero
stutter basically everything my M2 Max is able to do which is practically everything in my workflow
the M3 Pro can handle no problem at all and if not improve on those workflow speeds so the M3
Pro is really really good and what about the M3 Max then well that leap is even larger it's
processing power is now equal to my M2 Ultra Mac Studio both devices cost an arm and a leg
though and that's the reason why I personally did didn't go for the M3 Max and went for the M3 Pro
instead but between the new M3 MacBook lineup the jump in performance from Pro to Max is now
a lot more profound this generation than it ever has been so it sort of incentivizes us to choose
choose the max variant over the pro the other new element that the M3 chip brings is dynamic
caching and Hardware accelerated ra tracing this means the M3 Mac is capable of playing plenty of
different games but when it comes to looking for a game I genuinely want to play and test it was
slim pickings and it's been unfortunately pretty tough to find a game that I want to actually play
on the Mac I browsed through Mac games on Steam and the pickings are so poul Tre and the list
of Rosetta enabled games is longer but mainly filled with older stuff and there in lies the
biggest hurdle for Apple to become a true gaming laptop the Mac needs to match consoles and gaming
PCs when it comes to the selection of games earlier Apple did announce the game porting
toolkit to help incentivize game devs to Port their games over to Mac but we're yet to see
real progress there so the bottom line with Mac gaming is Apple definitely has the hardware the
M3 especially the pro and the max are capable of running high-end games it now just needs the games
when I was doing some research I also saw some reports on M3 MacBooks shipping with the older
Mac OS Ventura which is fascinating because it shows just how long these laptops were completed
and sitting in a warehouse prior to sonoma's release in September and that also shows that
you can't take leaks in rumors too seriously but yeah using somoma over the last month on
the M3 Pro it's proved to be a great package and an operating system that helps take advantage of
the extra power so somoma brings a whole bunch of new capabilities like interactive widgets new
video conferencing tools and Safari improvements things like that it's been a really Pleasant
and snappy OS to use on my M3 MacBook and somoma looks more like an iPhone than ever I personally
don't think it's a bad thing the lock screen is pretty beautiful and it's been revamped system
settings is laid out vertically like an iPhone and I use widgets more than ever now I've got
mine scattered all over my desktop and I'll also leave a video in the description link Down Below
on the 14 must- change Sonoma settings if you're interested in that so when it comes to real life
usage and which M3 variation to get here is my experience in my two cents I still use my MacBook
M2 day to-day for business as usual tasks emails web browsing scripting easy things like that it's
absolutely perfect for but as soon as I need to edit videos photos PDF figma files or just have
more than 10 tabs open particularly on Chrome I reach for the larger and heavier MacBook Pro
M3 there's a big noticeable difference in operating power it's also worth mentioning
Apple has retired the 13in MacBook Pro in favor of the 14in MacBook Pro Pro Bas configuration but
before you do consider buying the Basse model I have to say as soon as you upgrade a single
thing on the Bas M3 the M3 Pro is right there at a decent price point nowadays you will find
it pretty difficult to operate on 8 GB of RAM if you design Graphics develop games edit videos a
handle machine learning workflows 8 GB is just not enough anymore but jez after over a month with the
Mac Book Pro M3 there is a lot of value for money here still the gains may not be as mind-blowing as
when the M1 first arrive but do not sleep on the M3 let me know if you're making the upgrade to the
M3 family of MacBooks or if you already have how you're finding your new Macbook I think it's both
incredible and scary that the pro variant offers the same performance as my M2 Max only 9 months
later 9 to 10 months later it's a reminder of just how fast these gener ational iterations are moving
so it's only worth investing into a machine that suits your needs and that you'll hang on to for a
while after all the M4 is just around the corner anyway if you enjoyed this review don't forget to
drop the video a like and comment the code word BMW M3 especially if you're a car Enthusiast
I'll share my video right here to my review of the Mac Studio M2 Ultra that's still my main
desktop Workhorse I love and as always thanks for watching and I'll see see you in the next [Music]
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