NEW MacBook Pro M3 Pro Review - Best M3 Spec This Year?

so I recently picked up the brand new M3 MacBook Pro base model from Apple which currently goes for about $2,000 and I couldn't help but notice the entire internet just became this Echo chamber of people saying that the M3 Pro chip should be avoided this year and that it's a terrible decision now do I think the entire M3 lineup as a whole is a little bit of a mess this year we'll talk about that but in this video we're going to be looking at the M3 Pro chip and why I think that might be the best M3 laptop to get and also should you pick up the M1 Max instead of the M3 Pro would that make more sense let's get into it okay so first we're going to talk about some differences including Aesthetics performance and then we'll go through the actual buying decisions and who should actually buy this laptop and which spec should they actually get and what makes sense for them and how you spec this out is actually really important this year so make sure you guys actually stick out till the very end because we're going to be ranting so on that first point is that itics is it a good idea to actually pick up a computer simply based on the color Choice probably not did I do just that this year maybe okay it's not just that okay but honestly this is one of the things that pushed me to even look in this direction because look this Bas black color is fantastic and you may think it's superficial but I don't care okay but look in all seriousness if you wanted that's based by color this is the entrylevel method to getting it if you're wondering if the anti-fingerprint coating and everything like that on it works well it it does good enough I actually did a face oil test on it in my unboxing and it passed with flying colors and needless to say it performed admirably just required a quick little wipe down and it was good to go I love the two-tone look of this as well with a keyboard and this overall color makes it feel and look more premium and professional I'm also glad that they didn't go all black this year because we've all seen how that turned out before I think that's how the pandemic started bad joke sorry guys still a little little raw also you wouldn't get these nice sweet light hits that makes the computer looks pretty nice now this is the 14-in version that I've gone with and it's been really great because the portability of this has been really handy and it's one of the reasons why I actually thought maybe I might upgrade this year from my M1 Max MacBook Pro 16in that I had max speced out to 64 GB of RAM uh 4 TB of SSD and it was basically like the topof the line that you could get at that time but honestly I got to say the 16in was getting a little bit daunting to keep carrying around like I would hate traveling with it and you know taking it with me here and there so I would just opt to take my iPad but then I couldn't do a lot of the things like video editing on it now I'm trying out the 14-in and I'll probably be putting out a video comparing these in detail and what my experience has been so make sure you guys are subbed for that okay more importantly now let's talk about the actual performance of the M3 Pro chip now this is the first time I've actually seen Apple quote unquote downgrade specs in certain areas but how does it actually feel and perform and will it be a noticeable difference for you now I'll get to that in a second but first let's address some of the new changes this year performance right now we have firstly the display which now has up to 600 nits of peak brightness on SDR versus 500 nits previously it matches the Apple Studio display now and compared to my M1 Max here that Peaks out at 500 nits I don't know if it makes a huge difference but you can see the comparison right here it's a nice step in the right direction because SDR is basically where we want those screen brightness improvements and it's going to especially help you if you use your computer out and about quite often now aside from that we also still have that same beautiful xdr display on this and it is honestly probably one of the best displays on a product that I use the colors are outstanding and accurate there's no light bleed high contrast ratios it looks great the second difference this year is the starting M3 pro model now comes with 18 GB of RAM which finally I mean we've been asking this for so long now so I'm just so glad that they've done it and this is something that will actually help with the longetivity of this laptop now unfortunately what hasn't changed is the webcam however I want to take a minute to talk about the sponsor of this portion of the video obsbot this is the tiny 4K and it's basically the super portable and dare I say cute little webcam that packs a lot of punch it comes with a 1 over 2.8 in semas sensor delivering 4K Ultra HD at 30 frames per second and 1080p at 60 frames per second here's a comparison between what the MacBook Pro webcam looks like compared to the obsbot tiny 4K now this webcam has autofocus HDR mode and even a 4X digital Zoom but what's really impressive is the auto tracking and auto framing so if you're walking or moving around it'll do a great job tracking you you can also control this entirely with your hand gestures now if you want to get even more portable they've also brought this Tech over to something called the obsbot me which is this brushless motor smartphone gimbal which basically uses AI tracking to automatically recognize and track you while you film on your phone and here's the kicker unlike most other gimbals on the market that kind of are phone gimbals this thing has no extra apps required which means you can literally use your Instagram or your regular camera app and it just tracks you using its own camera built in so if you're interested in checking any of these out it's going to be linked in the description down below okay now let's talk about the CPU there's a slight reig here in terms of course you get five performance course and six efficent effc cores versus last year you got six performance cores and four efficiency cores on the M2 Pro Storage is also now base 52 GB SSD next now because of the switch to the 3 nanometer chip set this year we will naturally see some efficiencies and some of those will come in the form of added battery life and I got to say compared to my experience with the M2 Pros last year the M3 Pro does have much better battery life on the GPU side is where things get a little bit more tricky you get 14 cords with Hardware accelerated rate tracing but on the M2 Pro last year you had 16 cores without rate tracing so on the surface this kind of looks like a mixed bag and because of that many people are actually hesitant to recommend the M3 Pro because surface level it seems that Apple actually nerfed some aspects of this computer but look I've never been one to get lost in stats I care more about the actual overall experience and what the actual performance will be to the everyday user and this is where things get get interesting because benchmarks don't really tell the full story here these things only matter if you're someone who is nitpicking to upgrade from like the M2 Chip that you just bought like 3 months ago to the M3 but I'll tell you right now the vast majority of the people who are going to be getting this computer are not coming from the M2 Chip and neither should they be the average user looking at this M3 Pro someone who's been on an older generation Intel MacBook for a long period of time or is on Windows and wants to make a switch over and who are on the M1 Pro or a MacBook Air that want to switch to the M3 models and in all those cases the M3 Pro will give you the best of all worlds and a much improved experience than what you previously had it's legitimately one of the fastest and most featur computers I've ever used now I've been using this for the past month and it's been an absolute thrill the M3 pro has performed admirably and I've done anything from video editing to photo editing to regular work and even in gaming but here's the thing as well as my M3 PR is performing now so did my M1 Max so the question comes should I even buy this or should I just stick with the M1 Max or should I get the M1 Max instead now to answer this very intriguing question I'm going to break this purchase decision into two segments number one someone who just wants the latest and greatest now in this case let's start with a baseline M3 chip that comes in at $159 9 USD now I don't personally like how this machine is positioned and this is one of my beefs with the Apple this year because I feel like they could have really done a better job here if you're getting a pro machine if you're getting a MacBook Pro you're most likely going to want more than 8 GB of RAM I mean no one in their right mind should be getting a pro machine but keeping 8 GB of RAM and expect to use this machine for years to come it just doesn't make sense for professionals especially considering that you're still getting that slow SSD speeds compared to the upgraded Ram models so you'll probably want to go ahead and upgrade to 16 GB of RAM at which point the cost now becomes $17.99 and at which point you got to ask yourself why not just pay 200 bucks more and get the M3 Pro chip which will not only give you more CPU course but more GPU course a second fan for cooling support more than one external monitor an extra Thunderbolt port and 18 GB of RAM automatically plus you can now get the option of getting space black which is Apple's latest color so for 200 bucks more this becomes much more of an alluring proposition and probably the spec that I would push anyone looking at the M3 MacBook Pro towards which is why I personally think this year if you're getting the M3 chip the M3 Pro is probably the best option for you but okay let's also look at the second segment of people that I was initially talking about now this second segment is somebody who is simply looking for the best bang for buck in terms of performance they don't care about the latest and greatest they just want to get the most they can for their money now people in this category could care less about which chip is the latest or what color option that they can get they simply want to spend the least amount of money and get the best specs they possibly can and in that department I got to be honest I personally think that all the value is there in the M1 Max chip and that is is going to give you the best bank for your buck right now especially considering the M1 Max is now technically two generations old you can find some of them for really great pricing heck you can probably even find something on the used Market with 64 GB of RAM 4 terab of SSD and still probably pay the same amount you would for the entry level M3 Pro which is honestly a really great bargain that you can't really argue with you get tons of ram tons of storage for days so if you need that kind of performance and want to spend less as possible the M1 Max is I got to say a fantastic option for you to consider and for those of you guys who don't need Pro performance you're not doing like professional level stuff on these computers you honestly don't need the M3 or M1 or M2 Max or Pro or anything like that in fact I think the best laptop for you guys would be the M2 air and probably pick one up for a nice discounted price and I think that laptop is going to be fantastic because it's going to be much lighter and smaller and thinner than these laptops and it's going to give you everything that you would need for a much cheaper price point so that would be the direction I would push you towards now if you find this video helpful I think you're really going to like these two videos here and I will see you guys there take [Music] care

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Length: 11min 22sec (682 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 26 2023