Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Apple MacBook Pro 16 and 14-inch M3 Series Review”.
The new M3 series versions of the MacBook Pro 14 and MacBook Pro 16 have just landed and it hasn’t even been a year since the M2 model shipped and frankly, if I had bought the M2 series version of the MacBook Pro 16 I’d be pretty pissed about Now, unfortunately, I haven’t had a lot of time to test either of them yet, but I’ve had enough time with them that I’m pretty comfortable with the opinions that I have formed both good and bad for the most part they’re identical to their predecessors. With a few exceptions, the M3 Pro and M3 Max models of both the 14 and the 16 now come in an elegant, semi glossy dark gray, dubbed to space black, which, as you’d guess, is darker than space gray. The dark sibling of the M2 generation of the MacBook Pro 14 Apple touts the space Black Version as being fingerprint resistant, at least on the top. I know there are some smudges on here, but I really can’t see them unless I I try and I’ve had it for the same amount of time that I’ve had the completely smudged up silver one, the keyboard and the keyboard. Deck are different story. I really can see smudges here. Of course, it’s also the part of the laptop that you touch the most along with the keyboard and once again after 2 days completely, you know you can tell which Keys I’ve used the most because they’re shiny with oils, if I paid $ 4,000 for the system, I’D get annoyed fast.
My annoyance level would probably decrease as the price decreased, though the MacBook Pro 14’s biggest changes come only in the M3 model, which is new to the line by adding a low-end option. Apple can hit a $ 1,600 price that, on one hand, makes it attractive to volume, buyers and budget-minded consumers who really really want a MacBook Pro, but physically it’s a little stripped down compared to its M3 Pro and M3 Max siblings. Those limitations are imposed by the chip and the motherboard layout, though, for example, there are only two Thunderbolt connections and they’re, both on the left side, along with a MAG safe connector. Even if you don’t need more than two ports, it does mean that all of your charging options are on the left side and it can only drive a single highes external mod monitor if you’re, using that plus the built-in display and speaking of the built-in display.
They both use the same bright, liquid, retina xdr panels as the previous models, but now the system supplies more power to them in standard dynamic range. So the max brightness now increases from 500 nits to 600 nits, that’s mostly important. If you’re working in bright light or Outdoors, they still have the notch, though, which doesn’t bother me as much. Only because I use a solid black background when there’s a bright wallpaper yuck. The chips really don’t change much about the feature sets of the earlier models, though, for the maxed out 16 core M3 Max Apple, basically ditched the idea of balanced numbers of cores, I.E the performance and the efficiency cores, and instead just said, okay, here, mostly performance and A few efficiency, so you have something left over to drive the interface. The result is a seriously fast ship and it gets even faster if you switch it to the high power setting and though I haven’t yet tested for power throttling or stability while on battery it still generally runs at full speed. That means you can gain pretty well on battery, though I don’t know yet for how long the flip side is that the best M3 Pro in the MacBook Pro 14 may not gain as much performance as you’d expect over the previous top M2 Pro. It has the same number of CPU cores, but the balance between them has changed now, it’s more even it also has lower memory bandwidth and one less GPU core, but you should still see some gains.
Thanks to the move to the 3 NMM Fab process, improved overall efficiency and updates to some of the graphics algorithms. Personally, I like the size and the weight of the 14-in model best, but the bigger screen of the 16 can’t be beep. Of course, it’s also $ 4,000, at least the way our test unit was configured and if $ 4,000 is a little too much for you, it does start at $ 2500. That’S a little more appealing, but overall, the 16 is really fast. It’S got a lovely, dark, gray, color, it’s expensive, but it doesn’t seem overpriced for what you get and it’s quiet. Even when fans are running plus, it’s got excellent battery life for its class.
The stuff that I don’t like really is stuff that hasn’t changed from before the key caps are going to show where fast, it’s a bit heavy and there’s a notch on the display, still which that’s a personal thing 14, on the other hand, is, as I said, It’S good size and weight and the graphics performance is much improved over the previous generation. It’S got solid battery life and it’s got decent performance. On the other hand, you’re really kind of better off, with the base model of the M2 Pro configuration. If you’re going to want more than 8 GB of RAM and the notch want more detail or just curious about my more in-depth opinions, you can find the reviews of MacBook Pro 14 and the MacBook Pro 16 at the link below on CNET .