• [NEWS] Apple releases M3 iMac and MacBook Pro models

    From Your Name@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 31 18:48:48 2023
    Available to pre-order now for shipping next week.


    24" iMac with M3
    <https://www.apple.com/imac/>


    14" and 16" MacBook Pro with M3, M3 Pro, or M3 Max <https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/>



    No idea why the iMac can't have M3 Pro or M3 Max, while the relatively
    tiny MacBook Pro can ... seems like a rather silly limitation. :-(

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  • From Alan Browne@21:1/5 to Your Name on Tue Oct 31 09:07:14 2023
    On 2023-10-31 01:48, Your Name wrote:

    Available to pre-order now for shipping next week.


    24" iMac with M3
    <https://www.apple.com/imac/>


    14" and 16" MacBook Pro with M3, M3 Pro, or M3 Max <https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/>



    No idea why the iMac can't have M3 Pro or M3 Max, while the relatively
    tiny MacBook Pro can ... seems like a rather silly limitation.  :-(

    Agreed. I would have ordered the M3 Pro and 48 GB of RAM.

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?J=C3=B6rg_Lorenz?=@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 31 16:41:48 2023
    Am 31.10.23 um 14:07 schrieb Alan Browne:
    On 2023-10-31 01:48, Your Name wrote:

    Available to pre-order now for shipping next week.


    24" iMac with M3
    <https://www.apple.com/imac/>


    14" and 16" MacBook Pro with M3, M3 Pro, or M3 Max
    <https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/>



    No idea why the iMac can't have M3 Pro or M3 Max, while the relatively
    tiny MacBook Pro can ... seems like a rather silly limitation.  :-(

    Agreed. I would have ordered the M3 Pro and 48 GB of RAM.

    How often do you want to repeat this?
    No such thing. End of story. Would be the absolute overkill for your
    needs anyway.

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  • From Alan Browne@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 31 13:08:26 2023
    On 2023-10-31 11:41, Jörg Lorenz wrote:
    Am 31.10.23 um 14:07 schrieb Alan Browne:
    On 2023-10-31 01:48, Your Name wrote:

    Available to pre-order now for shipping next week.


    24" iMac with M3
    <https://www.apple.com/imac/>


    14" and 16" MacBook Pro with M3, M3 Pro, or M3 Max
    <https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/>



    No idea why the iMac can't have M3 Pro or M3 Max, while the relatively
    tiny MacBook Pro can ... seems like a rather silly limitation.  :-(

    Agreed.  I would have ordered the M3 Pro and 48 GB of RAM.

    How often do you want to repeat this?
    No such thing. End of story. Would be the absolute overkill for your
    needs anyway.

    You have 0 idea of my needs.

    And if you don't like what I write feel absolutely free to ignore me or
    KF me.

    --
    “Markets can remain irrational longer than your can remain solvent.”
    - John Maynard Keynes.

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?J=C3=B6rg_Lorenz?=@21:1/5 to All on Thu Nov 2 09:55:19 2023
    Am 31.10.23 um 18:08 schrieb Alan Browne:
    On 2023-10-31 11:41, Jörg Lorenz wrote:
    No such thing. End of story. Would be the absolute overkill for your
    needs anyway.

    You have 0 idea of my needs.

    If you can currently do your work on a 11 year old iMac a new iMac with
    a M3pro and 48 GB RAM would be total overkill. Full stop.

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  • From Alan Browne@21:1/5 to All on Thu Nov 2 08:47:41 2023
    On 2023-11-02 04:55, Jörg Lorenz wrote:
    Am 31.10.23 um 18:08 schrieb Alan Browne:
    On 2023-10-31 11:41, Jörg Lorenz wrote:
    No such thing. End of story. Would be the absolute overkill for your
    needs anyway.

    You have 0 idea of my needs.

    If you can currently do your work on a 11 year old iMac a new iMac with
    a M3pro and 48 GB RAM would be total overkill. Full stop.

    Proving my point that you have 0 idea of my needs. Video editing is a
    memory hungry task - pro studios go way above 24 GB.

    I currently have 24 GB and ironically I could bump it up to 32 GB on
    this computer... future always needs more.

    One of my software projects is also memory hungry (large simulation) and
    more RAM is good RAM.

    And as mentioned in the other thread, RAM disks are often very useful
    for faster rendering and format conversions and other file manipulation
    tasks.

    Further of course, it is part of future proofing the computer for my
    habit of keeping computers for a long time.

    My target in a new iMac was actually 32 GB, but Apple's choices in
    memory seem to point at 24, then 48 GB memory sizes - so I would have
    gone 1 level up. Not available with M3, however.

    I may even build an external RAMdisk off the Thunderbolt ports.

    So, don't go around telling other people what they don't need. You're
    not qualified.

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    “Markets can remain irrational longer than your can remain solvent.”
    - John Maynard Keynes.

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