Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Apple Says It’s “Enough” – MacBook Pro M3″.
This is the brand new 14-inch M3 MacBook Pro, and I have one simple: question. Is eight gigabytes of RAM really enough. The fact that they are selling this for $ 1,600 is a bold move.. According to Apple VP of Marketing, Bob Borchers – and I quote: “ Eight gigabytes on an M3 MacBook Pro is probably analogous to 16 gigabytes in other systems.. We just happen to be able to use it more efficiently.”. Well, Bob. I bought myself a MacBook Pro to answer this exact question.
Because I’ll be honest with you, I have been using the 2021 14-inch MacBook Pro for over two years now.. I absolutely love the system and it is without a doubt my favorite laptop. I have ever used.. So much so that I feel no need to upgrade it even after two years and two generations.. So when you look at this and it has a lot of the same benefits, but it’s at a significantly lower price point.. If the eight gigabytes of RAM is usable, then great, this might be the best MacBook you can buy, but my gut is that eight is gon na run out real quick..
Now, as you’ll see, this is a silver MacBook Pro largely because if you want the brand new shiny Space, Black color, you got to shell out for a Pro-Pro, an M3 Pro MacBook Pro not to be confused with the M3 regular MacBook Pro’cause that that checks out Right As a dude who’s been carrying a 14-inch MacBook with me every day this is lighter., So the M3 is losing one of the Thunderbolt ports that are on the right side., So we still have HDMI as well as the SD card slot, and on this side We have MagSafe two USB-Cs which double as Thunderbolt and the headphone jack, but that is one of the downsides with this M3.. I’Ll, be honest, though: that’s not a huge deal.. It’S nice to have ports on both sides, but the M3 processor just doesn’t handle more than two Thunderbolt ports on any system. In the box is super simple..
We have a MagSafe cable as well as a 70-watt USB-C charger, but beyond that is the display.. Now don’t get me wrong, the M2 and the M1 MacBooks both have very nice panels, but the actual display on these MacBook Pros is terrific. 120 hertz super bright vivid. Like honestly, this is one of my favorite laptop displays on the market period.
Before we actually say hello or hola, how about …, ( MacBook thuds )? Do you ever like …? Sometimes I see like the edit in real time – and I said hola and then I just saw the frame, go black and white and shrink a little bit and then the editors start laughing and then we’ll just move on hola. Before we actually dive into this. I’M just curious on the inside because I know that internally is quite different than other MacBooks.. The nice thing about this generation of MacBooks they’re actually very easy to open.
There’s, I think what eight screws total and then it just pops right. Out. I’ll be honest with you, there is almost no reason to ever open up a MacBook short of.
Maybe if you wan na, swap out the battery at some point, there’s very little. That’S actually user replaceable in here.. After way, more clips and pry tools than I thought I needed, let’s take a look at the inside of our M3 MacBook Pro., So broadly similar.. These, I believe, are our SSD modules and it also has the very strange MacBook Pro battery, which … ( upbeat music continues. ) Wait, am I tripping, Did they shrink the battery? Like I don’t remember, …, Look.
Look you see that there’s these gaps on the side like are these batteries just slightly smaller, So I mean, as always, it’s Apple. It’S super super clean, but let me actually open up my M1 Max MacBook Pro also because I actually need to open this up anyway.. After a couple of years of use, my hinge is slightly misaligned, probably from being tossed in my bag enough times.. So I actually need to open this up and adjust the hinge. Anyways so this’ll be a perfect opportunity for us to do a side by side, and this is the inside of hey my very clean, looking 14-inch MacBook Pro that I was not worried about in any way whatsoever..
So actually, you know if we put these side by side, there are very substantial differences., ( blows, ), Probably shouldn’t blow.. One of the main differences is clearly the cooling solution, because we have two fans instead of one, but that makes sense, because this is a significantly more power, hungry chip.. In fact, you can actually see.. So this is where the M3 is, and this is where the M3 Max is..
It is just a big chungus of a chip.. So now that my curiosity has been sated, let me get the M3 MacBook set up and start living with it. Try to do some video edits play some games.
Use it like a regular device and find out is the eight gigabytes of RAM an absolute deal. Breaker or is Mr. Bob Apple himself correct, and it’s just as good as everyone else’s 16 gigs. So the MacBook is set up. I’Ve spent a few hours using it, and the first question I have is: how is it for editing Now? This is certainly more of a use case for me specifically, but the main reason why I use a MacBook at all is because of Final Cut Pro the editing program. I’Ve used for many years, and I don’t want to learn something else. Now.
The main advantage here is that Final Cut is very well optimized on the Mac, as you might expect.. So here I actually have a couple of projects.. First of all is a YouTube Short.. So this is a Short that I edited entirely start to finish on the MacBook., As you can see, obviously very straightforward, it’s 4K H.265 and even with a couple of effects and whatnot, it plays back absolutely no problem.. I mean as far as I’m concerned.
This could be on my M1 Max or whatever it is super super smooth.. More, interestingly, is a full 19-minute edited timeline.. So I actually edited this last night on my M1 Max..
So the main thing I’m curious about is the actual scrubbing performance, but this project was slightly too large, so it was like a little less than 400 gigabytes, which, with the other things I wanted to install on the Mac, it wouldn’t fit. On my 512 gig internal storage, so I actually have to run it on an external SSD. With a larger project like this, I will say that it does chug slightly., So you see, if I’m like, scrubbing through really quickly, it does kind of stutter just a little Bit but I can play pretty much anywhere. Just skip around.. Honestly, the lack of RAM is not really a main concern for me. Next up.
I want to try to game on this MacBook. Now earlier in the year, we actually did an entire video gaming on Apple Silicon and the TL .