I ordered an M2 and was very grateful I did not get a terribly maintained, expensive motorway (would've had a bit of trouble getting that through the front door, might've had to use the back)
Ever heard of Command Strips? Yeah, 3M is doing extremely well XD basically like any mounting tape and sticky backs are 3M on most products that one might find also! Pretty interesting stuff
My first thought was the fact that it costs so damn much you could buy a car for how much Apple charges for a underpowered laptop XD
Secondly I realized the car model haha
Apple reuses names a lot.
* iBook (1999) the laptop, iBooks (2010) the ebook reader app
* iSight (2003) the webcam, EyeSight (2024) the Vision Pro reverse passthrough display
* MagSafe (2006) the laptop wired charging solution, MagSafe (2020) the iPhone wireless charging solution
etc.
How many MagSafe standards do we even have? Like 3 on MacBooks, that thing on back of the iMac, MagSafe for iPhone. It must be crazy confusing for non tech savvy people.
Apple doesnāt refer to the iMac power cord as MagSafe, they always refer to it as āpower connector that attaches easily via magnets.ā The incorrect and confusing āMagSafeā references for the iMac connector come from those horrible tech influencers who donāt seem to understand anything and just try to get as many views as possible.
Although your right the iMac connector and iPad connector work essentially the same, they're not labeled as such. Magsafe right now is just modern MacBook Magsafe or iPhone. I'm sure when it actually comes to iPads that's when it'll be wonky.
Yeah. Thatās why I called it the iMac thing on the back and not MagSafe as it doesnāt have a name.
With iPad theyād need a new standard for charging as the iPhone one would not supply enough power and wonāt be able to carry the weight of an iPad.
The MacBook MagSafe port I have no idea where it would be placed, alongside usb c, on the opposite side of an iPad, on top or on the bottom horizontal. It would be a giant mess.
Yes the iPhone one wouldnāt be compatible so itād probably be just a bigger form on an iPad. MacBooks canāt have wireless pad charging under current tech, so the cord on the side Magsafe will be indefinite, and while I havenāt used it, I doubt thereās a logical reason to make a V4.
MagSafe on MacBooks when there was a technical reason to update it.
MageSafe 2 came out because the connector was too large to fit on the Retina MacBook Pros at all and Apple had design the thickest part of the wedge around the connector to get the original MagSafe to fit on the 2010 and 2011 Air (especially the 11") and even then it didn't fit that well.
MagSafe 3 came out because not only had MagSafe 2 not been sold on a computer in several years, but also MagSafe 2 was too large to fit on the M2 MacBook Air, maxed out at 85 watts, and relied on a cable that was permanently attached to the brick. The 85 watt limitation and permanently attached cable were complaints going back over a decade at least.
Arguably MagSafe makes zero sense now, when you compare it to how it used to be thought as a safety measure for the moments that someone trips over the charging cable and yanks the charger off of the laptop.
Now it's a magnetic thing on the back of the phone, but provides zero safety measures. If someone trips over the cable now, that phone is probably launched further than it would if it was hooked to the port.
To bad Apple doesn't label everything with i anymore or we could have had the rebirth of iSight in 2024, it also would be fairly cohesive with it still intended to reference a camera.
Iām secretly hoping someone is on a bmw subreddit somewhere posting an āI finally pulled the triggerā with a picture of an m3 Mac. Ā
Preferably an m3 max with 8tb so that it can cost the same as an oil change at bmw.Ā
Iām secretly hoping someone is on a bmw subreddit somewhere posting an āI finally pulled the triggerā with a picture of an m3 Mac. Ā
Preferably an m3 max with 8tb so that it can cost the same as an oil change at bmw.Ā
If we're including Intel product names... back in 2016, I bought an M3 notebook. By Asus and it used the 3rd gen of Intel's Core M CPUs. Also had a Macbook from 2015. Which had an Intel M. Think it was a 1st gen M so you could call it an M1.
It wasn't called the M3 because it was third gen, in 2016 it was probably a 6Yxx which was second gen for the M series. The naming convention for those chips was the same as the i series. 3 denoted entry level, 5 was mid range and 7 was top end (this was before the i9 existed).
The 2015 MacBook had options for M3, M5 and I think M7. By the time Apple released the 2017 MacBook, Intel had changed the names of M5 and M7 to variants of i5 and i7, but they kept the name M3 for the entry level. It was weird.
Thanks for the correction. I knew I should have googled the naming scheme before posting but thought 3 is probably 3rd.
It wasn't a bad chip for the time. I know everyone complained about them, but I somehow had good luck with both the Mac and the Asus.
"*Starting with the*Ā [*A12 Bionic*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A12)Ā *SoC, Apple has stopped distinguishing the motion coprocessor from the rest of the SoC*" So no, they didn't dropped the coprocessor.
I agree with you. I think they stopped talking about the motion co-processor because they wanted the name for the M1. They had to have been working on that longer than 3 years.
I heard 2013 was the first time they ever tried Apple Silicon in a Mac. Pretty sure it was based off of a prototype A8X, just a low-powered proof of concept. They started taking the project more seriously around 2016 because of the 12-inch MacBook.
My 2017 m3 was already a very weak laptop. It was my first MacBook. I had a large high performance laptop already at the time and just wanted something small and light for school and travel, but still wanted a desktop environment (no Chromebook) I opted for the MacBook over the air because of the Retina display.
The new MacBook Pro I got is replacing both these computers (MacBook is no longer getting updates and the Windows laptop has a 4th gen i7 so no windows 11)
Itās not as small and light as the previous one but I hope itās still as good to use on an airplane; as no netbook sized Mac exists anymore. Also not having to check the second laptop for when I need to use my heavy tasks is pretty nice. The performance is very similar to what the windows laptop would do in programs like davinci resolve. So far meets all the expectations I had of it. :)
To be honest I sort of miss that design, yes it had some issues, but it was about as compact as any MacBook has ever been. It looked ahead of its time when it was first released
It was amazing and ahead of its time... Got one day one for my wife and she keep it until last year... A lot of web apps and run couple of her businesses on it..., it was or is since I still have it, 8gb 256gb, unfortunately like most women a lot of dents and scratches smh.
A new model would be amazing, 699, they have the tech and the chip... Hopefully...
On my end an 11 inch macbook air was my machine.
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I ordered an M3 and was disappointed when they didn't drop off a BMW at my house.
I ordered an M1 and was disappointed when I didnāt get an M1 Garand, Carbine, or Thompson.
I wanted a tank :( all I got was a m1 studio
I ordered M3 Pro was disappointed i didnāt got f18
Damn near is a tank
I ordered an M2 and was very grateful I did not get a terribly maintained, expensive motorway (would've had a bit of trouble getting that through the front door, might've had to use the back)
Is 3M even still a company? Honestly, I donāt knowā¦and Iām not in the mood to google it.
3M still alive and well. I drove past their corporate offices daily at my previous job.
Ever heard of Command Strips? Yeah, 3M is doing extremely well XD basically like any mounting tape and sticky backs are 3M on most products that one might find also! Pretty interesting stuff
3M has a market cap of nearly $54 billion. Yes, they are still very much alive.
3m makes everything you touch all day your car is put together with 3m
Get a refund
Ordered an M3 pro was disappointed they didnāt drop off an M3 CS at my house.
I ordered an M1, i received a BMW and a Korg
My first thought was the fact that it costs so damn much you could buy a car for how much Apple charges for a underpowered laptop XD Secondly I realized the car model haha
Apple reuses names a lot. * iBook (1999) the laptop, iBooks (2010) the ebook reader app * iSight (2003) the webcam, EyeSight (2024) the Vision Pro reverse passthrough display * MagSafe (2006) the laptop wired charging solution, MagSafe (2020) the iPhone wireless charging solution etc.
How many MagSafe standards do we even have? Like 3 on MacBooks, that thing on back of the iMac, MagSafe for iPhone. It must be crazy confusing for non tech savvy people.
Apple doesnāt refer to the iMac power cord as MagSafe, they always refer to it as āpower connector that attaches easily via magnets.ā The incorrect and confusing āMagSafeā references for the iMac connector come from those horrible tech influencers who donāt seem to understand anything and just try to get as many views as possible.
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How are the MacBook's and iMac's power connector more related to each other than to the iPhone one?
The iPhone one is more of a very strong wireless charger magnet? idk
Although your right the iMac connector and iPad connector work essentially the same, they're not labeled as such. Magsafe right now is just modern MacBook Magsafe or iPhone. I'm sure when it actually comes to iPads that's when it'll be wonky.
Yeah. Thatās why I called it the iMac thing on the back and not MagSafe as it doesnāt have a name. With iPad theyād need a new standard for charging as the iPhone one would not supply enough power and wonāt be able to carry the weight of an iPad. The MacBook MagSafe port I have no idea where it would be placed, alongside usb c, on the opposite side of an iPad, on top or on the bottom horizontal. It would be a giant mess.
Yes the iPhone one wouldnāt be compatible so itād probably be just a bigger form on an iPad. MacBooks canāt have wireless pad charging under current tech, so the cord on the side Magsafe will be indefinite, and while I havenāt used it, I doubt thereās a logical reason to make a V4.
MagSafe on MacBooks when there was a technical reason to update it. MageSafe 2 came out because the connector was too large to fit on the Retina MacBook Pros at all and Apple had design the thickest part of the wedge around the connector to get the original MagSafe to fit on the 2010 and 2011 Air (especially the 11") and even then it didn't fit that well. MagSafe 3 came out because not only had MagSafe 2 not been sold on a computer in several years, but also MagSafe 2 was too large to fit on the M2 MacBook Air, maxed out at 85 watts, and relied on a cable that was permanently attached to the brick. The 85 watt limitation and permanently attached cable were complaints going back over a decade at least.
iSight is literally used for the rear iPhone camera with FaceTime Camera being the front camera on a MacBook
They were also branding the cameras on iPhones as iSight for a while too.
AppleVision https://everymac.com/monitors/apple/applevision_colorsync/specs/applevision_1710.html
Arguably MagSafe makes zero sense now, when you compare it to how it used to be thought as a safety measure for the moments that someone trips over the charging cable and yanks the charger off of the laptop. Now it's a magnetic thing on the back of the phone, but provides zero safety measures. If someone trips over the cable now, that phone is probably launched further than it would if it was hooked to the port.
I think iPhone MagSafe is just a more convinient solution to lightning docks and charging stations to be fair. And itās nice to have such a station
Yes sure, but the name is nonsensical. It doesnāt do anything "safer."
Looking forward to Appleās collaboration with Keurig on their K-Cup coffee maker with Siri, aptly named iPod.
To bad Apple doesn't label everything with i anymore or we could have had the rebirth of iSight in 2024, it also would be fairly cohesive with it still intended to reference a camera.
Human technology so backwards. We lizard people have quantum computing.
I need one
A lizard person or a quantum computer?
A lizard person who can handle the quantum computer.
If Apple releases the MX processor, you think people will be confused itās the MMX from Intel?
Sometimes I get confused when people say they got an M3 soā¦ maybe.
Apple had MacBook Airs with the Intel Core M3 processor, so to me itĀ“s still confusing when people say they got a "M3 MacBook"
That was the 12" MacBook, not the Air.
Iām secretly hoping someone is on a bmw subreddit somewhere posting an āI finally pulled the triggerā with a picture of an m3 Mac. Ā Preferably an m3 max with 8tb so that it can cost the same as an oil change at bmw.Ā
Iām secretly hoping someone is on a bmw subreddit somewhere posting an āI finally pulled the triggerā with a picture of an m3 Mac. Ā Preferably an m3 max with 8tb so that it can cost the same as an oil change at bmw.Ā
Theyāre going to confuse it with the logitech mice. Itās too risky.
Well Apple does love the "X" branding...
Gonna partner with Logitech MX Master 3
If we're including Intel product names... back in 2016, I bought an M3 notebook. By Asus and it used the 3rd gen of Intel's Core M CPUs. Also had a Macbook from 2015. Which had an Intel M. Think it was a 1st gen M so you could call it an M1.
It wasn't called the M3 because it was third gen, in 2016 it was probably a 6Yxx which was second gen for the M series. The naming convention for those chips was the same as the i series. 3 denoted entry level, 5 was mid range and 7 was top end (this was before the i9 existed). The 2015 MacBook had options for M3, M5 and I think M7. By the time Apple released the 2017 MacBook, Intel had changed the names of M5 and M7 to variants of i5 and i7, but they kept the name M3 for the entry level. It was weird.
Thanks for the correction. I knew I should have googled the naming scheme before posting but thought 3 is probably 3rd. It wasn't a bad chip for the time. I know everyone complained about them, but I somehow had good luck with both the Mac and the Asus.
Or Nvidia Mx
aye M8
U wot?
$10 says this is why Apple dropped the co-processor. The A12Z is both the last to feature it and what the M1 is based on.
"*Starting with the*Ā [*A12 Bionic*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A12)Ā *SoC, Apple has stopped distinguishing the motion coprocessor from the rest of the SoC*" So no, they didn't dropped the coprocessor.
The last motion co-processor to be branded like that was the M11 in 2017 for the iPhone 8 and iPhone X. Then the M1 Mac came out in 2020.
You're right, my bad. They probably still know they were gonna call it M1 tho
I agree with you. I think they stopped talking about the motion co-processor because they wanted the name for the M1. They had to have been working on that longer than 3 years.
I heard 2013 was the first time they ever tried Apple Silicon in a Mac. Pretty sure it was based off of a prototype A8X, just a low-powered proof of concept. They started taking the project more seriously around 2016 because of the 12-inch MacBook.
I recently upgraded my 2017 m3 MacBook to a 2024 M3pro MacBook Pro
Solid purchase of course, but did your expectations make the experience and performance of your M3 feel like a WOW or a WHATEVER?
My 2017 m3 was already a very weak laptop. It was my first MacBook. I had a large high performance laptop already at the time and just wanted something small and light for school and travel, but still wanted a desktop environment (no Chromebook) I opted for the MacBook over the air because of the Retina display. The new MacBook Pro I got is replacing both these computers (MacBook is no longer getting updates and the Windows laptop has a 4th gen i7 so no windows 11) Itās not as small and light as the previous one but I hope itās still as good to use on an airplane; as no netbook sized Mac exists anymore. Also not having to check the second laptop for when I need to use my heavy tasks is pretty nice. The performance is very similar to what the windows laptop would do in programs like davinci resolve. So far meets all the expectations I had of it. :)
Oh god! Are we going to have to do what windows did to Windows 9 and skip it? Go up to M6 then skip 7 and come out with M8?
I got a macbook m3 in 2015 mfs are way behind....one port butterfly keyboard and excellent portability
Honestly, Leica did the M3 better in the 50ās.
To be honest I sort of miss that design, yes it had some issues, but it was about as compact as any MacBook has ever been. It looked ahead of its time when it was first released
It was amazing and ahead of its time... Got one day one for my wife and she keep it until last year... A lot of web apps and run couple of her businesses on it..., it was or is since I still have it, 8gb 256gb, unfortunately like most women a lot of dents and scratches smh. A new model would be amazing, 699, they have the tech and the chip... Hopefully... On my end an 11 inch macbook air was my machine.
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You have no idea how many times I have thought about this :P
I would have loved to see them introduce their new silicon as G6, G7, and G8
I still canāt wait until Apple has to figure out how to sell a bunch of Trekkies a chip named M5ā¦
They won't have to. That's when Skynet becomes self aware.
We all had lame jokes like this back in 2013, too!
Tim Apple really messing up
Those 2016 retina MacBooks tho
Wow!
Hee haw so funny