MacBook Pro, which updates twice a year, accelerates comprehensively with the M3 series chip.

Introducing the Twice-Annual Upgrading MacBook Pro Experience Optimal Performance with the M3 Series Chip

With the arrival of the M3 chip, the new MacBook Pro is also meeting consumers in November this year. Compared to other product lines, this year’s MacBook Pro has been slightly more frequent. After launching the versions with M2 Pro/M2 Max in February of this year, it launched versions with the M3 chip family in November this year.

MacBook Pro

Upon closer inspection, this year is also a year of accelerated growth for Apple. In the past, Apple would first release the digital series chips, followed by the Pro, Max, and Ultra versions. But this year, Apple released three M3 series chips at once and took the lead in implementing them on the most mainstream MacBook Pro product line, showing Apple’s confidence in the M3 series.

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In theory, Apple should have released three versions of the MacBook Pro this year: the MacBook Pro with the M3 chip, the 14-inch and 16-inch versions with M3 Pro/Max chips. The debut of the M3 MacBook Pro also means bidding farewell to the 13-inch MacBook Pro. It also confirms Apple’s move away from the Touch Bar, which has faced continuous controversy, and formally exiting the stage after 7 years of history.

MacBook Pro

In terms of performance, the MacBook Pro with the M3 Max chip is the most powerful in the series, a solid upgrade for Apple’s self-developed chips. Looking at our version equipped with a 16-core M3 Max and 64GB of memory, its M3 Max chip has significant improvements in CPU and GPU performance compared to the previous generation M2 Max. Even the standard version of the M3 Max has more CPU performance cores than the M2 Max, providing sufficient guarantee for performance.

The significant performance growth is evident at the core level. The MacBook Pro with the M3 Max chip achieved single-core and multi-core scores of 3183 and 21372 respectively in the GeekBench 6 benchmark, demonstrating the significant advantages brought by the 3nm M3 Max.

This Year’s MacBook Pro Equipped with M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max Chips

If the M3 Max allows the MacBook Pro to sprint on the performance track, the base M3 MacBook Pro is like Apple upgrading the basic experience of the MacBook Pro. Now, the entire MacBook Pro lineup is equipped with XDR screens with higher brightness and support for ProMotion adaptive refresh rates. The screen size has also been upgraded from 13 inches to 14 inches, providing a wider screen view.

The M3 Max version adds a USB-C interface.

However, this year’s base model M3 MacBook Pro also shows Apple’s usual “cutting” technique, as it has had a Thunderbolt port removed from its right side, and the standard M3 chip comes with only 8GB of memory.

But the new features of the M3 family itself are equipped across the entire lineup. For example, Apple has introduced a new “dynamic cache” mechanism in the M3 family this year. It dynamically allocates the actual amount of memory required for each task in real-time, rather than giving a fixed budget for all tasks. This effectively ensures the GPU utilization and provides smooth and stable performance when running complex apps.

Dynamic cache mechanism

Following the A17 Pro, the M3 family has also introduced hardware ray tracing technology this year. In conjunction with the dynamic cache technology mentioned earlier, the M3 chip will provide more efficient processing of complex graphic tasks. In terms of daily use scenarios, the M3 family’s media processing engine now supports AV1 decoding for the first time. This enables more energy-efficient streaming media playback and achieves longer battery life.

The MacBook Pro has been regarded by many users as a “mobile workstation” because their usage scenarios often vary. However, the high energy efficiency provided by Apple’s self-developed chips ensures stable use throughout the day.

Changes in the battery logo are hardly noticeable during daily lightweight use

This year’s M3 family of chips continues to demonstrate high performance and low power consumption. Based on my current usage scenarios, I can browse the web or input text for several hours in different settings like outdoors or at the airport, and hardly notice any change in the battery logo. In scenes that require slightly higher performance, such as video editing or running virtual machines, the battery life of the MacBook Pro is noticeably better than that of computers with Intel chips.

It is worth mentioning that the heat control performance of the M3 chip is also excellent. In the past few days of use, I have only heard the fan spinning faintly when rendering videos, and the temperature in the keyboard area has not increased much. The advantage of low heat generation in Apple’s self-developed chips is also evident in the M3 series.

Thanks to its powerful performance, MacBook Pro allows you to start working anytime, anywhere

In addition, this year’s MacBook Pro can still run at full power on battery power, allowing me to efficiently complete tasks in a mobile office setting. Of course, you can also choose to enable low battery mode in the settings or limit screen brightness when using the battery to achieve even longer battery life.

The MacBook Pro with M3 Pro/Max also has a noticeable update, adopting the new “Deep Space Black”. It is an iteration of the previous Space Gray color, which is deeper and more in line with the tone of the Pro series products.

MacBook Pro Deep Space Black

Compared to the Midnight color of the MacBook Air series, the Deep Space Black of the MacBook Pro also performs well in “fingerprint resistance”. After a few days of use, its fingerprint residue is basically the same as the previous Space Gray, and a light wipe is enough to restore the whole machine to cleanliness.

Keyboard area adopts the same color as Deep Space Black

In addition, the keyboard area of the new MacBook Pro also adopts the same color as Deep Space Black, making it look more integrated.

Under the sunlight, the Deep Space Black MacBook Pro presents a deeper gray color, darker than the currently available Space Gray, and reflects a metallic sheen.

Compared to the wave caused by the transition from Intel chips to M1 chips, the upgrade from M2 to M3 seems to bring users a “neither painful nor itchy” feeling, especially in recent years when the industry has paid more attention to generative AI and large models. The improvement range of the M3 series in these aspects can only be described as “conventional iteration”.

However, it is undeniable that after adopting the self-developed chip, the productivity tool attributes of the MacBook Pro have also undergone comprehensive evolution. It has more powerful performance, longer battery life, better compatibility with the ecosystem, and even when used in conjunction with iPhone and iPad, it makes Mac an indispensable part of Apple’s ecosystem. The stronger performance of the M3 further strengthens the stability and efficiency of the MacBook Pro series.

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