WEBVTT 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, 00:00:05.920 --> 00:00:09.120 I kind of started to second guess my Framework 16 pre-order. 00:00:09.120 --> 00:00:13.800 So when we had to unbox it for ShortCircuit, I figured this is the perfect time 00:00:13.800 --> 00:00:16.880 to get a little bit of hands-on. Now I did pre-order a Framework 16 00:00:16.880 --> 00:00:21.320 to replace my kind of aging now Intel Core i9 MacBook Pro, 00:00:21.320 --> 00:00:25.760 which is also a 16-inch. Full disclosure, Linus is invested in Framework. 00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:28.920 I am not. They just look really sick and I wanna try one. 00:00:28.920 --> 00:00:34.880 But this could be a serious competitor. I like the Framework for its repairability 00:00:34.880 --> 00:00:38.800 and the modular discrete GPU, but man, there is something to be said 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 00:00:42.520 --> 00:00:49.080 in a laptop form factor. This is the 16-inch MacBook Pro M3 Pro. 00:00:50.080 --> 00:00:53.840 The Pro Pro? M3 Pro Pro? I like this. 00:00:53.840 --> 00:00:58.520 This has letters I like. I like M3s, I like Pros, and I like MacBooks. 00:00:58.600 --> 00:01:02.320 I think this color's called Space Black. Pretty sexy. 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. 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, 00:01:13.200 --> 00:01:17.600 designed by Apple in California. Stickers. 00:01:17.600 --> 00:01:21.160 Wait, is this a joke? Dude, there's a spacer in here. 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. 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. 00:01:30.240 --> 00:01:34.160 We've got the standard Apple charger. This is a 140-watt brick. 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. 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, 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. 00:01:53.520 --> 00:01:58.600 And then this is the last generation M2 Pro MacBook Pro 14. 00:01:58.600 --> 00:02:02.560 I just wanted to see visually, physically, if the 14s were any different. 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:05.760 It doesn't look like it. I mean, the keyboard, it's the same. 00:02:05.760 --> 00:02:09.840 I mean, which one? Is this even the M2? This is the M2, okay. 00:02:11.160 --> 00:02:14.160 You're definitely not like flexing. You know, when the new iPhone comes out, 00:02:14.160 --> 00:02:17.960 you can always tell, ooh, they've got like the big cameras, the fancy ones. 00:02:17.960 --> 00:02:22.440 Oh, it's the titanium one. Nope, this one just looks the same. 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. 00:02:27.200 --> 00:02:32.480 The IO on this side is going to be functionally looking the same. 00:02:32.480 --> 00:02:35.600 You've got two Thunderbolt 4 slash USB 4, 00:02:35.600 --> 00:02:40.160 you've got your MagSafe charger and audio, except on the non-pro, 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. 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. 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, 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. 00:02:58.720 --> 00:03:02.080 Ooh, okay, let's look at the damn software. 00:03:02.080 --> 00:03:07.040 Looks like macOS. Mmm, feels like macOS, even smells like macOS. 00:03:07.040 --> 00:03:10.560 Physically speaking, it's not super clear what the differences are here, 00:03:10.560 --> 00:03:14.600 but Apple has this handy thing on their website that allows you to compare Mac models. 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, 00:03:19.160 --> 00:03:23.720 and then it makes more sense, because up to a 16-core CPU, you know, 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. 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 00:03:34.640 --> 00:03:38.400 is a 12-core with eight performance cores and four efficiency cores, 00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:44.840 while the M3 Pro also a 12-core, except it has less performance cores 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. 00:03:50.480 --> 00:03:55.520 I suspect knowing that it's Apple, that it probably doesn't make a huge difference. 00:03:55.520 --> 00:03:59.120 We are moving to TSMC's three-nanometer process node on the new CPUs, 00:03:59.120 --> 00:04:03.040 so there's going to be an efficiency improvement. I bet you, looking at this, 00:04:03.040 --> 00:04:07.320 that they're going to take that improvement, make the laptop be better on battery 00:04:07.320 --> 00:04:11.960 and perform pretty similarly. Also, we have less memory bandwidth. 00:04:13.400 --> 00:04:17.440 For most people, probably not going to make a big difference. For video editing, might, 00:04:17.440 --> 00:04:20.480 but also there's a ton of hardware acceleration on MacBook, 00:04:20.480 --> 00:04:26.240 so maybe less. We do have AV1 decoding, which is great. 00:04:26.240 --> 00:04:31.560 No, does it not have encoding for AV1? Yeah, okay, bell confirmed, no AV1 encoding. 00:04:31.560 --> 00:04:35.040 Kind of weird. You get a little bit more RAM on the same SKU, 00:04:35.040 --> 00:04:38.200 so 16 versus 18 gigs compared to the M2. 00:04:38.200 --> 00:04:42.600 Dang, this is like the same laptop. So maybe the next laptop for me 00:04:42.600 --> 00:04:46.920 is going to be a used M2 Pro for a substantial discount. 00:04:46.920 --> 00:04:50.160 Let's try out the speakers. I think they're the same. 00:04:51.160 --> 00:04:55.080 They both sound good. If you really care that much, put headphones in. 00:04:55.080 --> 00:04:58.440 I mean, display, display looks good. Is it different? 00:04:58.440 --> 00:05:01.760 I don't think so. I didn't see anything different in the specs page, 00:05:01.760 --> 00:05:05.280 so probably not, but let's take a look at the lab's results and see. 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. 00:05:09.480 --> 00:05:13.760 For display brightness in SDR, we're at 600 nits, which is pretty good. 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 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. 00:05:23.040 --> 00:05:27.120 And for peak HDR brightness in XDR mode, as Apple calls it, 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 00:05:32.480 --> 00:05:37.120 on a full-screen test. It looks like it was around 1100. 00:05:37.120 --> 00:05:40.360 And Apple only says 1000, so that's cool. They're decently color accurate. 00:05:40.360 --> 00:05:43.840 The P3 gamut coverage is pretty much effectively 100%. 00:05:43.840 --> 00:05:47.640 The average SDR delta E's are around 1.5 average 00:05:47.640 --> 00:05:52.920 which is decently color accurate, although the default HDR mode tends to kind of over brighten 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 00:05:58.360 --> 00:06:04.360 PQ2084 that tracks HDR brightness much more accurately. And as with the last generation, 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. 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, 00:06:15.880 --> 00:06:19.480 which is really good considering how small that screen is. 00:06:19.480 --> 00:06:25.240 But what about performance? Hmm? The single-threader performance is quite a bit better, 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 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 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, 00:06:50.680 --> 00:06:56.280 albeit in a 14 inch chassis, which is quite substantial. That three nanometer process node 00:06:56.280 --> 00:07:02.520 is offering some substantial, substantial performance here, even considering we have 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 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 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 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 00:07:22.360 --> 00:07:27.800 pretty substantially smaller battery in the 14 inch chassis. For stress test, pretty much exactly 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, 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 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 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 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 00:07:54.120 --> 00:07:59.320 three nanometer process node, which is quite a bit smaller. We have more transistors from the 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 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. 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 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 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 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. 00:08:40.920 --> 00:08:46.040 Apple keep doing a good job. You make great laptops, but they are goddamn expensive. 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 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, 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. 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 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, 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? 00:09:29.560 --> 00:09:33.640 Holy crap. That is 7,200 US dollars. 00:09:37.160 --> 00:09:43.480 Maybe I'll be applying for a new credit card soon. If you're interested in more information on these 00:09:43.480 --> 00:09:48.920 laptops, Mac Address or Apple channel will have a full review coming very shortly. Get subscribed, 00:09:48.920 --> 00:09:57.240 like the video. God damn, why do the nice things have to be so expensive? It's just pretty. Damn.