Dan Seifert runs down the news from Monday night’s Scary Fast primetime product event, covering what’s new about these updates to the MacBook Pro and iMac lineup and who should be the most interested in an upgrade. (Anyone who needs that Space Black exterior or someone who is replacing an Apple machine with an Intel processor or the first-gen M1 chip.)
Now that Apple’s Scary Fast event is over, if you actually load a 16-inch MBP up with 128GB of RAM, an 8TB SSD, and the most powerful M3 processor Apple offers, it will cost $7,199.00.
And it’s all black — space black, to be exact. Very 2006 MacBook, in the best of ways.
And Apple claims it will be up to 11 times faster than the last generation of Intel-based Macs. Which... I would hope so.
Apple’s chip speed charts are improving every year, but they’re still not nearly as functional as they could be.
They’re on 3nm technology, which should mean a whole heckuva lot faster than the current M2 family of chips.
The M1 and M2 were both launched many months ahead of their Pro and Max, but Apple’s dropping the M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max together this time. Fascinating!
And they’re coming to the MacBook Pro, according to Tim Cook. Fingers crossed we get an iMac announcement tonight as well.
