@greg If you need the performance, it’s definitely a win.
But 14% faster than really fast isn’t really a big deal for most people 🤷.
@greg I’m definitely not moaning.
Absolutely love that Apple looks to be spec bumping their laptops regularly now.
Always annoyed me that you’d sometimes be paying full price for a machine with 2-3 year old guys.
Good on them, even if it was only a 5% jump.
@gr36 @ravipatel the only reason I think this criticism has some merit is because they called the event “Scary fast”, suggesting something really groundbreaking so to see the same kind of improvements as the m2 had over the m1 (despite moving to 3nm instead of sticking with 5 like the m2) I can see how it’s underwhelming for the marketing.
@ChrisJWilson I think the M3 Max checks that “scary fast” box for the event. With 4 more performance cores, it’s supposedly just as fast as the M2 Ultra from last year (and that just went into the Mac Pro). Pretty impressive when you think an Ultra is basically two Max chips stuck together.
@jarrod I don’t dispute that this isn’t an improvement and even that it is substantial. I just think that the marketing hyped the improvements to astronomic levels and so some may see these jumps as not matching that. What I meant in my original comment was “I can see how someone could think scary fast means more than a 14% improvement, especially when the m1 brought such substantial gains over previous generations.” That doesn’t mean that belief is logical, but I can see why someone would feel that.
It’s all a moot point for me, even if they were 5x faster I’d still be sticking with my current m1 air that does far more than I need it to.