1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,920 It's no secret that I'm kind of a MacBook guy. So when Apple's new M3 MacBook launched, 2 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:09,120 I kind of started to second guess my Framework 16 pre-order. 3 00:00:09,120 --> 00:00:13,800 So when we had to unbox it for ShortCircuit, I figured this is the perfect time 4 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:16,880 to get a little bit of hands-on. Now I did pre-order a Framework 16 5 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:21,320 to replace my kind of aging now Intel Core i9 MacBook Pro, 6 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:25,760 which is also a 16-inch. Full disclosure, Linus is invested in Framework. 7 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:28,920 I am not. They just look really sick and I wanna try one. 8 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:34,880 But this could be a serious competitor. I like the Framework for its repairability 9 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:38,800 and the modular discrete GPU, but man, there is something to be said 10 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:42,520 for macOS battery life. I don't know if I'll be able to go back to Windows 11 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:49,080 in a laptop form factor. This is the 16-inch MacBook Pro M3 Pro. 12 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:53,840 The Pro Pro? M3 Pro Pro? I like this. 13 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:58,520 This has letters I like. I like M3s, I like Pros, and I like MacBooks. 14 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:02,320 I think this color's called Space Black. Pretty sexy. 15 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:06,760 If I were to hold it like that, that's like the same color as a normal MacBook. 16 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:13,200 And then it's down now with black. Whoa, crazy. Inside the box, we've got the usual Apple propaganda here, 17 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:17,600 designed by Apple in California. Stickers. 18 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:21,160 Wait, is this a joke? Dude, there's a spacer in here. 19 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:25,560 It looks like there's more in there. There's not. That's just like a folded cardboard. 20 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:30,240 Maybe it's so all the boxes can be the same like some countries have more regulatory stuff than others. 21 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:34,160 We've got the standard Apple charger. This is a 140-watt brick. 22 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:42,640 Man, Apple's gonna have to start making these things smaller. And then there is the really sexy Apple cables. 23 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:46,720 What is this? This gotta be two meters. They don't list it on the Apple website, 24 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:53,520 but I think it's two meters. For comparison's sake, here is the M3 non-pro 14-inch MacBook Pro. 25 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:58,600 And then this is the last generation M2 Pro MacBook Pro 14. 26 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:02,560 I just wanted to see visually, physically, if the 14s were any different. 27 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:05,760 It doesn't look like it. I mean, the keyboard, it's the same. 28 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:09,840 I mean, which one? Is this even the M2? This is the M2, okay. 29 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:14,160 You're definitely not like flexing. You know, when the new iPhone comes out, 30 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:17,960 you can always tell, ooh, they've got like the big cameras, the fancy ones. 31 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:22,440 Oh, it's the titanium one. Nope, this one just looks the same. 32 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:27,200 In order, we've got our M3 Pro on the bottom, M3 non-pro and M2 Pro. 33 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:32,480 The IO on this side is going to be functionally looking the same. 34 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:35,600 You've got two Thunderbolt 4 slash USB 4, 35 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:40,160 you've got your MagSafe charger and audio, except on the non-pro, 36 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:45,880 these are Thunderbolt 3 instead of Thunderbolt 4, but they do also still support USB 4 across the spectrum. 37 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:49,480 It was the same on the M2 generation as it is on the M3 generation in that regard. 38 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:54,160 On the other side, we've got HDMI and extra Thunderbolt if you have a pro or better CPU, 39 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:58,720 and then an SD card reader. But for the rest of this, I'm going to focus on the space black one. 40 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:02,080 Ooh, okay, let's look at the damn software. 41 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:07,040 Looks like macOS. Mmm, feels like macOS, even smells like macOS. 42 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:10,560 Physically speaking, it's not super clear what the differences are here, 43 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:14,600 but Apple has this handy thing on their website that allows you to compare Mac models. 44 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:19,160 This is not a very Apple feeling feature to have on their website until you start scrolling down, 45 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:23,720 and then it makes more sense, because up to a 16-core CPU, you know, 46 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:28,520 it sounds like, well, this is an M3 Pro. I'm going to get more cores in my M2 Pro. 47 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:34,640 Not really. Same thing for the GPU and the memory. If we scroll down, you can see the M2 Pro 48 00:03:34,640 --> 00:03:38,400 is a 12-core with eight performance cores and four efficiency cores, 49 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:44,840 while the M3 Pro also a 12-core, except it has less performance cores 50 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:50,480 and more efficiency ones. We'll see in the Labs testing if it actually makes a major difference. 51 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:55,520 I suspect knowing that it's Apple, that it probably doesn't make a huge difference. 52 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:59,120 We are moving to TSMC's three-nanometer process node on the new CPUs, 53 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:03,040 so there's going to be an efficiency improvement. I bet you, looking at this, 54 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:07,320 that they're going to take that improvement, make the laptop be better on battery 55 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:11,960 and perform pretty similarly. Also, we have less memory bandwidth. 56 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:17,440 For most people, probably not going to make a big difference. For video editing, might, 57 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:20,480 but also there's a ton of hardware acceleration on MacBook, 58 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:26,240 so maybe less. We do have AV1 decoding, which is great. 59 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:31,560 No, does it not have encoding for AV1? Yeah, okay, bell confirmed, no AV1 encoding. 60 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:35,040 Kind of weird. You get a little bit more RAM on the same SKU, 61 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:38,200 so 16 versus 18 gigs compared to the M2. 62 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:42,600 Dang, this is like the same laptop. So maybe the next laptop for me 63 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:46,920 is going to be a used M2 Pro for a substantial discount. 64 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:50,160 Let's try out the speakers. I think they're the same. 65 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:55,080 They both sound good. If you really care that much, put headphones in. 66 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:58,440 I mean, display, display looks good. Is it different? 67 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:01,760 I don't think so. I didn't see anything different in the specs page, 68 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:05,280 so probably not, but let's take a look at the lab's results and see. 69 00:05:05,280 --> 00:05:09,480 In terms of brightness on the display, we're pretty much right in line with what Apple rates it as. 70 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:13,760 For display brightness in SDR, we're at 600 nits, which is pretty good. 71 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:17,760 So we're going to go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead 72 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:23,040 and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead. So we're at 600 nits, which is exactly what Apple rates it as. 73 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:27,120 And for peak HDR brightness in XDR mode, as Apple calls it, 74 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:32,480 we're right at 1600 nits as rated. I think we did see ever so slightly higher 75 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:37,120 on a full-screen test. It looks like it was around 1100. 76 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:40,360 And Apple only says 1000, so that's cool. They're decently color accurate. 77 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:43,840 The P3 gamut coverage is pretty much effectively 100%. 78 00:05:43,840 --> 00:05:47,640 The average SDR delta E's are around 1.5 average 79 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:52,920 which is decently color accurate, although the default HDR mode tends to kind of over brighten 80 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:58,360 what you see to give it a bit of more of a punchy Costco effect, but there is a picture mode called 81 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:04,360 PQ2084 that tracks HDR brightness much more accurately. And as with the last generation, 82 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:09,960 the local dimming is still some of the best we've seen on pretty much any non OLED display. 83 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:15,880 You're looking at 2000 plus zones on the 14 inch and then 2500 plus on the 16 inch, 84 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:19,480 which is really good considering how small that screen is. 85 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:25,240 But what about performance? Hmm? The single-threader performance is quite a bit better, 86 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:35,720 like in the range of 20%, which is substantial. Even the non-pro M3 is tracking 20% faster than 87 00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:44,200 an M2 Max last time, or about 17% faster than the M2 Pro, which is pretty substantial. Moving over 88 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:50,680 to multi-core, at least in Cinebench 2024, the M3 Pro picks up 30 plus percent on an M2 Pro, 89 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:56,280 albeit in a 14 inch chassis, which is quite substantial. That three nanometer process node 90 00:06:56,280 --> 00:07:02,520 is offering some substantial, substantial performance here, even considering we have 91 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:07,000 less performance, more efficiency cores. I kind of assumed it was going to be the same, but lower 92 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:12,520 power draw, but it seems like it's better and probably lower power draw. Battery life as expected 93 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:17,560 excels on these new MacBooks. We're looking at 24 and a half hours in our YouTube endurance test 94 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:22,360 on the 16 inch and around 21 hours on the 14 inch. That's to be expected because it's a 95 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:27,800 pretty substantially smaller battery in the 14 inch chassis. For stress test, pretty much exactly 96 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:33,080 the same. And then the time to full charge is around an hour and a half and an hour and 45, 97 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:39,320 respectively, much bigger charger on the 16 inch and then a smaller battery on the 14 inch. So 98 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:43,720 those kind of balance each other out to be pretty similar overall. After I've looked at some of the 99 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:49,400 other benchmarks, it seems like in a fair few situations, we're quite a bit faster on this 100 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:54,120 new generation, which is great. It's probably going to be more efficient. You're talking a 101 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:59,320 three nanometer process node, which is quite a bit smaller. We have more transistors from the 102 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:05,560 M2 non-pro to the M3 non-pro, 20 billion to 25 billion, which is a huge increase, except 103 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:13,240 confusingly going from the M2 pro to the M3 pro, we have less 40 billion versus 37. 104 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:20,680 And still it's generally faster. One thing that I'm noting out of all of this is the M2 pro Mac mini 105 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:27,480 is kind of a superstar. It seems most of the time it's like almost as fast. So if you're just using 106 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:34,440 this at your desk, you might want to look at a Mac mini from last gen. Either way, faster laptop 107 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:40,920 in most cases, battery life, still nuts is ever screen, still excellent. I like the new colors. 108 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:46,040 Apple keep doing a good job. You make great laptops, but they are goddamn expensive. 109 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:54,040 Like seriously, how much is this thing? I don't even want to look 1600 US dollars for the base 110 00:08:54,040 --> 00:09:00,040 spec 14 inch MacBook Pro. If we look at the 16 inch MacBook Pro, which is what I'm interested in, 111 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:08,280 maybe I'm less interested now. In 16 inch land, it's $2,500 for the base spec M3 pro. 112 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:14,280 That's a 12 core CPU, 18 core GPU, 18 gigs of RAM and a 512 gig SSD. You bump up to 36 gigs of RAM 113 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:22,120 like we have in a one terabyte, 3100 with a 512, 2900. And if you go for the M3 max, 114 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:29,480 it starts at 3,500 US dollars. What's the just humor me? What is the most expensive MacBook pro? 115 00:09:29,560 --> 00:09:33,640 Holy crap. That is 7,200 US dollars. 116 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:43,480 Maybe I'll be applying for a new credit card soon. 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