I randomly replied to your post. Fact is, in this thread people have more or less complained that the Air is “lacking” basically every single feature of the Pro. If we give the Air all the features people think it is “lacking”, it becomes the MacBook Pro.
Just one paragraph ago you were the one (rightfully) ridiculing the notion of evaluating a feature based on Apple’s decision to call it “Pro”.
Yeah, we haven’t done THAT on this forum at all recently…
I tested several Office apps with large files on my M1 Air with 8GB vs my 16 GB Lenovo, and the Air was snappier. For instance, the Lenovo lagged when navigating around a large PowerPoint file, where the Air did not. The Lenovo did open the apps slightly faster, but that has much less impact on daily work than actually using the app.
That is rather bad timing for that post, as most upgrades are traditionally simple spec bumps, but the M3 actually adds hardware ray tracing that the M1 and M2 do not have. It may not turn out to be a hugely important feature, but it is a true hardware distinction, which is more than most upgrades have had over the years.
I've still got some old 3.5" Floppy Disks I'd hate to see go into the landfill, so maybe they could retrofit a drive and support for 68K System 7! And I still have few 5.25", so if they could also add one of those and an Apple ][ emulator, I could do almost everything in one place and play Choplifter! 😀
From one generation to the next? That'll never show enough of a difference to be worth upgrading. Cumulative little gains should add up after 4/5 years to make an upgrade worthwhile then. It has to be more than just SoC gains, though- SSD and RAM must also increase in capacity, for example. Hopefully the screen gets better, battery improves, connectivity improves, SSD gets faster, ports get added, etc. After those 4/5 years the advances must be compelling. Why anyone contemplates an M1 to M3 upgrade unless they need bleeding edge single core CPU speed is beyond me.
I just don't get it, they want every year to be as huge of an upgrade from Intel to the M1, then yelp that Apple is doing enough, it's so out of touch with reality.
100%. I have an M1 Max MBP, I have no intention of upgrading for a few more years, just because of how capable the M1 is, but its not because the M2 or M3 aren't good enough, I think the gains they have made are incredible in these past few short years.
I agree. Also, people upgrade for many reasons. Specs are just one possible reason. I have an M2 MBA, so not really motivated by the M3. Furthermore, I would probably not upgrade from an M1 to M3 just for better processor speed or performance. However, some folks might be tempted by MagSafe, improved camera, bigger screen, new form factor, etc.. Personally, I would probably wait a couple of years until my M1 was no longer eligible for MacOS updates.
It was painful when my 2013 MacBook Pro (16 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD) filled up. So my floor is 512 GB SSD. How much extra is the M2, 8 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD, can you swing that?
I’ve never had any slowness problems with the MS Office apps running and multiple dozens of web pages loaded and sometime with an Afinnity apps, too. And that is on an M1 Air with Sonoma. Not sure that the RAM is that inefficient.
They have to do some editing or the number of models they sell would become confusing and the models would compete against each other.
Have you forgotten the 13” MacBook Pro? It sold for several years in both Intel and Apple Silicon versions and was almost the same specs and performance as the 13” Air. At one time the 13” MBP was Apple's second best selling laptop only behind the 13” Air.
