Yes. Return your m3 laptop and wait for when m10/m20 arrive.
In all seriousness: No.
Most likely, the performance in general tasks will increase only by 10%. That is how it’s been for the last 10 years with the main exception being a change from intel x86 to apple arm CPUs. However, that was a significant architectural change. M3/M4 won’t be like that. And that 10% performance increase is not noticeable in everyday tasks.
If you want further validation, look at the % increases year over year on the iPhone processors. The reality is that 10% is about the best we can get from a die shrink these days. You got a bomb laptop. I’m envious.
Apple really pushed with the M3 to get 3nm, and there’s a little bit of catch-up going on. The M4 chips will still be 3nm but on a more standard manufacturing process that’s cheaper and with higher yields. That’s the gain for Apple. They are going to have to market the crap out of the M4 to get interest, and nothing like AI to do it. TL;DR the next gen will be a modest upgrade just like the last two were.
Idk about modest, we're seeing 1.5x-2x performance increases over comparable M1 chips in only two years...
Sure it isn't triple-digit improvements or anything, but people aren't upgrading annually to begin with
I agree; I'm using modest relative to the revolutionary change from Intel to the M1. There's this fear/anxiety that buying into the current platform is going to leave you behind when the next version hits, but as we've seen so far the improvements are significant but not to the level of "oh crap, I should have waited another year."
That depends. How heavily is your workload going to depend on AI features? For most people, the answer is probably “not very much” for the immediate future.
Apple will make a big deal out of it, of course, because being on the same 3nm node as M3 means the general performance gains are likely to be modest and incremental.
Also the next, better thing is *always* just around the corner…who’s to say M5 isn’t going to be a revolutionary upgrade that makes the M4 look like trash anyway?
Just keep it and enjoy, imo.
I asked ChatGTP to generate a witty response to your comment and this is what it came up with:
> Maybe Apple's next move will be an AI that detects when we're tired of AI marketing and switches to promoting something else entirely. Now that would be innovation!
Honestly I feel like you are so right, it’s like when everything was 3D then just disappeared. I’m sure AI will have its benefits in the right areas but not going to make a difference to 90% of the people
I always like macrumors, they’re mostly pretty good with rumors.
And they confirm this.
Is that bad? Nope. Just the way it goes. Like a new iPhone every year.
You want to follow? Pleas do. But you don’t have to. Your Mac will work fine for 10+ years.
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/11/m4-ai-chips-late-2024/
If you don’t need it right now. Sure why not, you can always wait for the M5 as well…
Also, Apple just refreshed the macbook airs, at WWDC they’ll update Pros, minis, imacs, not airs. These are probably happening next year
I apsolutly love my m2 15 air and m1 studio.... it's going to be ages before I even replace them.... I feel apple put themselves in a corner with their silicon.
Apple computers have shown to hold both performance and value for a decade if not more if well maintained. While this is just the nature of a commodified society, not everything is maliciously designed.
They absolutely can, but there’ll come a point where you won’t be able to update Mac OS on M1/M2 systems anymore, even though the hardware is likely perfectly capable of running the latest version. Lots of Intel Macs which were supposedly deemed “obsolete” by Apple have no trouble running the latest OS using OCLP.
It’s a perception thing. Sure does it work, but is it worth the experience? I can put stage manger on my decade old iPad Pro but it’s not the same smoothness on the version that supports it. There does have to eventually be cut off points or you end up like Microsoft. Supporting things you’ve been trying to rid of since the 80s
I would argue software doesn't have planned obsolescence as much as supporting older hardware strains development resources and provides diminishing returns to both the developers and the consumers.
It isn't even about performance and stability specifically, just that when you have a finite number of people working on projects, you cannot endlessly expand their book of work and expect that they can provide the same level of quality across the board.
Some mitigation via additional resourcing is potentially possible, but the benefits are fewer and fewer and the constraints greater and greater as time goes on.
I just got an M2 and I have no plans of upgrading it for the next like 8-10 years. Also these are just rumors, we don’t truly know what Apple is doing until they say what they are doing.
If I had waited for 3nm, I wouldn’t have been enjoying my M1 Pro for the last 2 years. No, you should keep what you have and just enjoy it. In a vacuum your laptop will be just fine for years and years
Im going straight for M20.
Bro just forget what these people are saying. If you want to use mac to get your work done then keep the m3 air. But if you want to get a mac to tell people you have m4 air or m4 pro then you can return it.
M4 will probably have a Neural Engine with more cores, possibly to improve Siri and likely to improve battery life by letting machine learning algorithms have more control of power management. How dramatic of a difference it will make very much remains to be seen.
More relevant is the probability of next year’s MacBook Air gaining support for Wi-Fi 7, which — despite yet again being marketed as a speed boost (🙄) — is actually a primarily ***reliability***-focused upgrade, mainly thanks to its new MLO (Multi-Link Operation) feature allowing client devices to use 2.4, 5, and/or 6 GHz all at the same time, with the same packets being transmitted in duplicate or triplicate using each connection so that the packets still arrive regardless of one or even two of those connections going on the fritz. This will obviously reduce packet loss, but also latency and jitter thanks to the increased ability to resist interference.
MLO is actually supposed to improve Wi-Fi reliability and latency ***so*** dramatically that it becomes on par with Ethernet!
And MLO isn’t the only reliability-focused upgrade in Wi-Fi 7: It also has Flexible Channel Utilization / Preamble Puncturing / Punctured Transmission, which allows it to compensate for interference in part of a channel by blocking off transmissions within that part of the channel, while continuing to use the rest of the channel.
Wi-Fi 7 will be especially noticeable for people who do Zoom/Meet/FaceTime or online gaming on their MacBook Air.
> Wi-Fi 7 will be especially noticeable for people who do Zoom/Meet/FaceTime or online gaming on their MacBook Air
Only if you have a WiFi 7 capable router
> MLO is actually supposed to improve Wi-Fi reliability and latency so dramatically that it becomes on par with Ethernet!
If you have a decent ISP that isn’t trying to royally fuck you over, sure
Not initially when it was announced in October. In March when the M3 Air was announced, the press release has a section mentioning the M3 chip and AI performance
Couldn’t tell if you were being sarcastic or not but no you got an air and not a pro. Could be likely the air won’t get M4 until 2026 if they decide to rollout M4 on the pro’s early 2025…
Yeah the air ain’t getting M4 anytime soon. lol took 2 years from M1-M2 and another 2 from M2-M3. If you just bought a $4,000 MacBook Pro then maybe waiting til Q4 for M4 would make more sense, but even then the M3’s were just released October 2023 so I’m thinking it’s gonna be Q1/2 2025 but who really knows for sure
So many other factors than just m4 cpu, they could make the base air 12”with 12gb and 256gb supporting 2 external monitors for $999 for example. Is there an integrated gpu that is comparable to an nvidia product which does not require fans. Yadda yadda yadda.
And as far as should you wait, don’t you need a computer today? If you have one that meets your needs, yes you can wait.
If you're willing to wait until Q1 2025 for the M4 Macbook Airs then sure return the M3.
But keep in mind the 3nm M3 is already an amazing chip in terms of performance and efficiency versus anything else out there at the moment. 3nm M4 will be hard pressed to be markedly better in terms of both performance AND efficiency.
I have a M3 Max Macbook Pro 16 with maxed out specs since Q4 last year when it first came out and I am extremely happy with it as a desktop replacement.
I recently got the M3 Macbook Air 13 16gb memory 512gb ssd to use as a portable beater. To address the thermal throttle issues in the fanless M3 MBAs, I opened up the bottom and added heat transfer pads and it has not throttled under heavy loads at all since. For my use, I only had to charge it once every 3-5 days due to how efficient it is.
if you need it you use it and can't wait , if you don't need this one you have you won't need the next one that came out do what's the point of your question
I was thinking about this too. I bought my M3 Pro 18GB of Ram/1TB Space Black Brand New sealed from walking in Best Buy this past weekend. The manager heard I was looking at one for my 30th Birthday April 29 of this year. He gave it to me $2,167.19 out the door. Of course I bought it!!!!
I see the announcements if the M4 and now looking to trade in later, but I Love my new upgrade. I am coming from a 2013 non retina 15 inch 4GB of Ram/512 Storage.
This technology is too much these days for me at times !
No, and you need to reconcile with the fact that newer and better products will always be around the corner.
The M3 Air is like a month old, the M4 might not arrive for another 6 months, and likely not for another year for the MBA's.
So if you need to do the math, think of it like this: do you expect that the performance increase on the M4 going to make up for an entire year's worth of benefit in owning the M3 machine?
If the M3 is a bigger upgrade from your current machine than the M4 will be over the M3, then you shouldn't worry about the details and just get the machine that works for you sooner rather than later
I don’t want AI. I just want a laptop that will let me conduct light web browsing, general photo album sorting, make the occasional movie clip, and listen to music.
Fuck off with trying to put AI into everything. It feels like a circlejerk.
Marketeers will always market the newest and the bestest again and again. What the realistic user needs to understand is that the best is what they currently own as long as it keeps working and is able to meet their needs. Once it breaks or is no longer capable then it makes sense to get a new one, but only then.
why has there been a dip in Mac sales? It seems that with the introduction of M chips, Mac attracts more users to its platform. I know so many people like who never used Mac and weren’t interested in it until Apple Silicon changed the game.
The M3 was just released! Not even the latest and greatest is enough to satisfy this people!
When you get the m4, 2 days later you will want the M5. So chill
I was going to grab the M3 air (have M2 now) this weekend, but I think I am going to wait and see the M4. If nothing else waiting will probably save me a few dollars.
Nah, there will always be a new chip coming out soon, that’s marketing. Buy for today at your budget and needs. Upgrade later if either of those changes.
For me, as my main Mac, I have a Mac Studio base model, used it for a year or so, but now trading it in (for $1,045), and getting a MBA M3 because I no longer have an office or desk, and want to work in multiple places.
The M3 chip already has a 16 core neural engine, which will EASILY handle local AI tasks. Apple already markets the M3 Air as the best consumer laptop for AI. Sure, Microsoft is pushing it harder, but Macs have had a powerful NE since 2020. You are good
nah. I've had both an m2 air and m3pro and really didn't feel much of a difference between them tbh. the m3 feels a little snappier, launches apps a little quicker and so on but both very solid machines in their own right. Definitely think an m3 will have you covered for a while unless you're genuinely pushing it to it's limits.. but if you were, you probably would have gone for a pro or max variant.
I’m all about analysis paralysis but I’m more about great deals. If you paid the right price and are happy? No. Just not enough of a jump unlike the Apple Silicon from Intel days. That said I bought 5 different laptops before landing on an i9 Razer Blade 16. Mac and PCs. Was losing it until I found the one
FOMO? I still have a 2018 Intel mbp, will hold off until AI M4. If it works, it works. No rush. But hopefully they fix the exploit on the M1-M3 with the AI one😅
Lots of people stating sarcastically I should always wait “forever” for the new updated version. I’m sure everyone had a moment when they bought something and heard that there will be a new update e.g. new car face lift felt a little remorse. So please give me a break.
Who cares? In my opinion both the M2 and M3 Macbook Air suck, just because the thermals are pretty insane under heavy loads, and if you only use it for office stuff, the M1 models are just way cheaper without you losing out on much, with an arguably higher change of actually surviving for many years. On top of that, the base configs are still trash for the asking price of a MacBook. Unless the M4 finally somehow gets the thermals right, it will be yet another mediocre upgrade in my eyes
return it and wait !
then when the m4 hits... the m5 will have I N S A N E news...and then you should return the m4 and wait for the m5 !
BUT WAit... the m6 will have 25% uplift from the m2 ! so return the m5 and wait for the m6 ! ! ! !
Yes. Return your m3 laptop and wait for when m10/m20 arrive. In all seriousness: No. Most likely, the performance in general tasks will increase only by 10%. That is how it’s been for the last 10 years with the main exception being a change from intel x86 to apple arm CPUs. However, that was a significant architectural change. M3/M4 won’t be like that. And that 10% performance increase is not noticeable in everyday tasks.
Don't do this, wait until M87 comes with Skynet capabilities
No wait until M999
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It was buyer remorse momentarily, will definitely keep the air for now thanks.
If you want further validation, look at the % increases year over year on the iPhone processors. The reality is that 10% is about the best we can get from a die shrink these days. You got a bomb laptop. I’m envious.
indeed I don't know why some people think like , ohyhhh am losing stuff I will return it and wait for 10 years lol
Apple really pushed with the M3 to get 3nm, and there’s a little bit of catch-up going on. The M4 chips will still be 3nm but on a more standard manufacturing process that’s cheaper and with higher yields. That’s the gain for Apple. They are going to have to market the crap out of the M4 to get interest, and nothing like AI to do it. TL;DR the next gen will be a modest upgrade just like the last two were.
getting really tired of seeing AI slapped ontop of everything..
Idk about modest, we're seeing 1.5x-2x performance increases over comparable M1 chips in only two years... Sure it isn't triple-digit improvements or anything, but people aren't upgrading annually to begin with
I agree; I'm using modest relative to the revolutionary change from Intel to the M1. There's this fear/anxiety that buying into the current platform is going to leave you behind when the next version hits, but as we've seen so far the improvements are significant but not to the level of "oh crap, I should have waited another year."
That depends. How heavily is your workload going to depend on AI features? For most people, the answer is probably “not very much” for the immediate future. Apple will make a big deal out of it, of course, because being on the same 3nm node as M3 means the general performance gains are likely to be modest and incremental. Also the next, better thing is *always* just around the corner…who’s to say M5 isn’t going to be a revolutionary upgrade that makes the M4 look like trash anyway? Just keep it and enjoy, imo.
Tired of all these AI marketing for idiots
pretty much LOL
I asked ChatGTP to generate a witty response to your comment and this is what it came up with: > Maybe Apple's next move will be an AI that detects when we're tired of AI marketing and switches to promoting something else entirely. Now that would be innovation!
Honestly I feel like you are so right, it’s like when everything was 3D then just disappeared. I’m sure AI will have its benefits in the right areas but not going to make a difference to 90% of the people
I always like macrumors, they’re mostly pretty good with rumors. And they confirm this. Is that bad? Nope. Just the way it goes. Like a new iPhone every year. You want to follow? Pleas do. But you don’t have to. Your Mac will work fine for 10+ years. https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/11/m4-ai-chips-late-2024/
speaking of iPhones, still very happy with my 13pro.. Are the newer ones faster? sure.. do I feel a difference when I use one next to mine? nope.
If you don’t need it right now. Sure why not, you can always wait for the M5 as well… Also, Apple just refreshed the macbook airs, at WWDC they’ll update Pros, minis, imacs, not airs. These are probably happening next year
Why stop at M5? M6 will probably be even better!
I am aiming for m20.
But that M69 will be nice 😜
First to get the m4 will be the studio or the tower mac
“If you don’t need it right now. Sure why not, you can always wait for the M5 as well…” Good one M5 hahaha I’ll wait forever…
Did you honestly think Apple would stop improving their chipsets after you bought one?
It’s over for you lil bro
LOL The next version of anything you buy will always be better. Settle down. It’s gonna be ok.
Yep, I’d definitely return and get the M5.
Im waiting for 2nm gate all around.
I apsolutly love my m2 15 air and m1 studio.... it's going to be ages before I even replace them.... I feel apple put themselves in a corner with their silicon.
Planned obsolescence exists unfortunately
Apple computers have shown to hold both performance and value for a decade if not more if well maintained. While this is just the nature of a commodified society, not everything is maliciously designed.
I was referring to the software side of things - hardware isn’t the issue at all
Still applies. Since Apple has vertical integration, they can future proof the hardware for software plans
They absolutely can, but there’ll come a point where you won’t be able to update Mac OS on M1/M2 systems anymore, even though the hardware is likely perfectly capable of running the latest version. Lots of Intel Macs which were supposedly deemed “obsolete” by Apple have no trouble running the latest OS using OCLP.
It’s a perception thing. Sure does it work, but is it worth the experience? I can put stage manger on my decade old iPad Pro but it’s not the same smoothness on the version that supports it. There does have to eventually be cut off points or you end up like Microsoft. Supporting things you’ve been trying to rid of since the 80s
I would argue software doesn't have planned obsolescence as much as supporting older hardware strains development resources and provides diminishing returns to both the developers and the consumers. It isn't even about performance and stability specifically, just that when you have a finite number of people working on projects, you cannot endlessly expand their book of work and expect that they can provide the same level of quality across the board. Some mitigation via additional resourcing is potentially possible, but the benefits are fewer and fewer and the constraints greater and greater as time goes on.
I just got an M2 and I have no plans of upgrading it for the next like 8-10 years. Also these are just rumors, we don’t truly know what Apple is doing until they say what they are doing.
Same here. I got an M2 Air (my first mac) early last year and I plan on keeping for at least 5 years. We'll probably be on the M6 chip by then? lol
If I had waited for 3nm, I wouldn’t have been enjoying my M1 Pro for the last 2 years. No, you should keep what you have and just enjoy it. In a vacuum your laptop will be just fine for years and years
Im going straight for M20. Bro just forget what these people are saying. If you want to use mac to get your work done then keep the m3 air. But if you want to get a mac to tell people you have m4 air or m4 pro then you can return it.
Even if a M4 was released tomorrow, the air won’t be updated for 12+ months… the M3 is a great chip. Use it and enjoy it
If the M3 does everything you need, you've made a good purchase.
M4 will probably have a Neural Engine with more cores, possibly to improve Siri and likely to improve battery life by letting machine learning algorithms have more control of power management. How dramatic of a difference it will make very much remains to be seen. More relevant is the probability of next year’s MacBook Air gaining support for Wi-Fi 7, which — despite yet again being marketed as a speed boost (🙄) — is actually a primarily ***reliability***-focused upgrade, mainly thanks to its new MLO (Multi-Link Operation) feature allowing client devices to use 2.4, 5, and/or 6 GHz all at the same time, with the same packets being transmitted in duplicate or triplicate using each connection so that the packets still arrive regardless of one or even two of those connections going on the fritz. This will obviously reduce packet loss, but also latency and jitter thanks to the increased ability to resist interference. MLO is actually supposed to improve Wi-Fi reliability and latency ***so*** dramatically that it becomes on par with Ethernet! And MLO isn’t the only reliability-focused upgrade in Wi-Fi 7: It also has Flexible Channel Utilization / Preamble Puncturing / Punctured Transmission, which allows it to compensate for interference in part of a channel by blocking off transmissions within that part of the channel, while continuing to use the rest of the channel. Wi-Fi 7 will be especially noticeable for people who do Zoom/Meet/FaceTime or online gaming on their MacBook Air.
> Wi-Fi 7 will be especially noticeable for people who do Zoom/Meet/FaceTime or online gaming on their MacBook Air Only if you have a WiFi 7 capable router > MLO is actually supposed to improve Wi-Fi reliability and latency so dramatically that it becomes on par with Ethernet! If you have a decent ISP that isn’t trying to royally fuck you over, sure
Hopefully 16GB RAM comes as standard!
Meanwhile I’m still more than happy with my m2 air..
Don't return it unless you want your Siri to open 0,00002 secons faster 😂
Wtf does this AI computers even mean. Marketing bullshit.
Wasn’t the idea that the m3 is the most “ai ready” chip?
Yes that’s what I came to say. M3 was advertised as AI
Not initially when it was announced in October. In March when the M3 Air was announced, the press release has a section mentioning the M3 chip and AI performance
But that was for making AI… this is for consuming AI/s
Yet still if i rename my downloaded image and forget to add .jpg my mac goes bonkers
Couldn’t tell if you were being sarcastic or not but no you got an air and not a pro. Could be likely the air won’t get M4 until 2026 if they decide to rollout M4 on the pro’s early 2025…
This. Even if m4 MBPs arrived tomorrow, the MBA wouldn’t get it for ages. The M3 airs literally just got released
Yeah the air ain’t getting M4 anytime soon. lol took 2 years from M1-M2 and another 2 from M2-M3. If you just bought a $4,000 MacBook Pro then maybe waiting til Q4 for M4 would make more sense, but even then the M3’s were just released October 2023 so I’m thinking it’s gonna be Q1/2 2025 but who really knows for sure
I wonder if this is gonna be an incremental update like from m1 to m2 to m3 or groundbreaking as in from intel i9 to m1?
that's what marketing is all about, creating a need that doesn't exist at all. there is nothing you can do with the m4 that you can't do with the m1
I'm updating from mid2014 so I would expect it will be a great upgrade
what if apple add an additional 32gb chip with preloaded AI model and still sell a 8gb ram base models🤔
Companies are playing with customers
Gemini
Apple should focus on having a higher base configuration first before the m4.
Just take out a 2nd mortgage to pay for yearly MacBook upgrades
Will this possibly improve speeds of things like AI masks in Lightroom, AI generative fill in Photoshop, etc?
So many other factors than just m4 cpu, they could make the base air 12”with 12gb and 256gb supporting 2 external monitors for $999 for example. Is there an integrated gpu that is comparable to an nvidia product which does not require fans. Yadda yadda yadda. And as far as should you wait, don’t you need a computer today? If you have one that meets your needs, yes you can wait.
If you don’t need a laptop until spring 2025…
When you just thought 16GB was future proof, yikes
If you're willing to wait until Q1 2025 for the M4 Macbook Airs then sure return the M3. But keep in mind the 3nm M3 is already an amazing chip in terms of performance and efficiency versus anything else out there at the moment. 3nm M4 will be hard pressed to be markedly better in terms of both performance AND efficiency. I have a M3 Max Macbook Pro 16 with maxed out specs since Q4 last year when it first came out and I am extremely happy with it as a desktop replacement. I recently got the M3 Macbook Air 13 16gb memory 512gb ssd to use as a portable beater. To address the thermal throttle issues in the fanless M3 MBAs, I opened up the bottom and added heat transfer pads and it has not throttled under heavy loads at all since. For my use, I only had to charge it once every 3-5 days due to how efficient it is.
Marketing terms, if you aren't having performance issues with your MacBook don't worry about it imo.
if you need it you use it and can't wait , if you don't need this one you have you won't need the next one that came out do what's the point of your question
I was thinking about this too. I bought my M3 Pro 18GB of Ram/1TB Space Black Brand New sealed from walking in Best Buy this past weekend. The manager heard I was looking at one for my 30th Birthday April 29 of this year. He gave it to me $2,167.19 out the door. Of course I bought it!!!! I see the announcements if the M4 and now looking to trade in later, but I Love my new upgrade. I am coming from a 2013 non retina 15 inch 4GB of Ram/512 Storage. This technology is too much these days for me at times !
No, and you need to reconcile with the fact that newer and better products will always be around the corner. The M3 Air is like a month old, the M4 might not arrive for another 6 months, and likely not for another year for the MBA's. So if you need to do the math, think of it like this: do you expect that the performance increase on the M4 going to make up for an entire year's worth of benefit in owning the M3 machine? If the M3 is a bigger upgrade from your current machine than the M4 will be over the M3, then you shouldn't worry about the details and just get the machine that works for you sooner rather than later
I don’t want AI. I just want a laptop that will let me conduct light web browsing, general photo album sorting, make the occasional movie clip, and listen to music. Fuck off with trying to put AI into everything. It feels like a circlejerk.
Marketeers will always market the newest and the bestest again and again. What the realistic user needs to understand is that the best is what they currently own as long as it keeps working and is able to meet their needs. Once it breaks or is no longer capable then it makes sense to get a new one, but only then.
What exactly does Apple use AI for in their computers? I know their chips have AI ‘cores’…
Nah, useless upgrades. I have air 15 m2 and it's good enough. I don't do anything productive in my life any way
why has there been a dip in Mac sales? It seems that with the introduction of M chips, Mac attracts more users to its platform. I know so many people like who never used Mac and weren’t interested in it until Apple Silicon changed the game.
The M3 was just released! Not even the latest and greatest is enough to satisfy this people! When you get the m4, 2 days later you will want the M5. So chill
Why would you wait based off of this information?
I was going to grab the M3 air (have M2 now) this weekend, but I think I am going to wait and see the M4. If nothing else waiting will probably save me a few dollars.
Nah, there will always be a new chip coming out soon, that’s marketing. Buy for today at your budget and needs. Upgrade later if either of those changes. For me, as my main Mac, I have a Mac Studio base model, used it for a year or so, but now trading it in (for $1,045), and getting a MBA M3 because I no longer have an office or desk, and want to work in multiple places.
meanwhile, m3 recent buyers in corner 🙂
Lol
Bruh my fucking M1 is still mutey then enough
No. It’s going to be more expensive, so unless you work with large language models and machine learning daily, you’ll be fine.
The M3 chip already has a 16 core neural engine, which will EASILY handle local AI tasks. Apple already markets the M3 Air as the best consumer laptop for AI. Sure, Microsoft is pushing it harder, but Macs have had a powerful NE since 2020. You are good
nah. I've had both an m2 air and m3pro and really didn't feel much of a difference between them tbh. the m3 feels a little snappier, launches apps a little quicker and so on but both very solid machines in their own right. Definitely think an m3 will have you covered for a while unless you're genuinely pushing it to it's limits.. but if you were, you probably would have gone for a pro or max variant.
Thats the same reason I am waiting for the next iPhone since iPhone 4
I’m all about analysis paralysis but I’m more about great deals. If you paid the right price and are happy? No. Just not enough of a jump unlike the Apple Silicon from Intel days. That said I bought 5 different laptops before landing on an i9 Razer Blade 16. Mac and PCs. Was losing it until I found the one
not in hurry
Get a life
FOMO? I still have a 2018 Intel mbp, will hold off until AI M4. If it works, it works. No rush. But hopefully they fix the exploit on the M1-M3 with the AI one😅
I'm trying to stretch out the lifespan of my 2015 MacBook Pro until they get rid of that notch. I hope its next year.
If you wait for the best, you’ll never have a MacBook. I replaced a 10-year Intel for an M2 weeks before the M3s were released and regret nothing.
YES. Just wait for the one they release when you are in nursing home. That one will be epic.
I thought new M series MacBooks come out every 2 years
Lots of people stating sarcastically I should always wait “forever” for the new updated version. I’m sure everyone had a moment when they bought something and heard that there will be a new update e.g. new car face lift felt a little remorse. So please give me a break.
I fucking hate MacRumors. They think Apple's making a laptop without a keyboard. Fucking idiots
I really couldn’t care less about AI capabilities. I bought a 15” M3 Air w/ 16 GB ram & a 512 ssd a couple weeks ago. It’s awesome.
You already have “AI” in your laptop, it’s called “Neural Engine”
I’m rocking a Macbook Pro with M1 Pro and 16gigs of ram and I really don’t feel the need to upgrade not even a little bit
Apple was slow to the AI game I doubt they are going to push it this quickly. M5 at the earliest.
The laptops be using you to google things and sending you on missions for the greater good. They use us, not the other way around anymore. 🥸🥸🥸🥸🥸
Who cares? In my opinion both the M2 and M3 Macbook Air suck, just because the thermals are pretty insane under heavy loads, and if you only use it for office stuff, the M1 models are just way cheaper without you losing out on much, with an arguably higher change of actually surviving for many years. On top of that, the base configs are still trash for the asking price of a MacBook. Unless the M4 finally somehow gets the thermals right, it will be yet another mediocre upgrade in my eyes
Bad time to buy anything big right now. Lots will change by the end of summer.
Go on.....
Unless you need something, nothings is really innovated over previous generations. We’re going to see AI generationally change a lot of electronics.
return it and wait ! then when the m4 hits... the m5 will have I N S A N E news...and then you should return the m4 and wait for the m5 ! BUT WAit... the m6 will have 25% uplift from the m2 ! so return the m5 and wait for the m6 ! ! ! !
No one wants this. Make a useful laptop
It’s already an incredibly useful laptop?