At 8 o'clock in the morning on October 31, Apple held the fastest new product launch conference in history, because the whole conference took less than half an hour from start to finish, which really didn't delay us from going to work at all!
The main thing is to bring us the new processor chips M3, M3 Pro and M3 Max and the new MacBook Pro, iMac. Although Macbook Pro equipped with M3 series chips has been ordered one after another, there are still many friends who are struggling with whether to update it.
So today I came to talk about it shallowly~
The entire M3 series chips are manufactured using 3nm process technology. 3nm chips are designed to squeeze in more transistors and get more functionality in a smaller space, hoping to improve performance while saving battery life.
Among them, the M3 chip is equipped with an 8-core CPU and a 10-core GPU, which supports an external display, and the speed is up to 20% faster than that of M2.
The M3Pro chip is equipped with a 12-core CPU, an 18-core GPU, and supports up to two external displays, with a speed increase of up to 10% compared to M2Pro.
M3Max is equipped with a 16-core CPU, a 40-core GPU, and supports up to four external displays, which is up to 20% faster than M2Max.
Compared with the previous generation, the overall improvement of the M3 series chips is about 10%-20%, if you upgrade your current MacBook Pro equipped with M2 to M3, the use experience should not be much different.
But compared to M1 users, there will be a little more hesitation, because in terms of GPU computing speed, M3 is 65% higher than M1, M3 Pro is 40% faster than M1, and in terms of CPU computing speed, M3 is 35% higher than M1, and M3 Pro is 20% faster than M1.
Even at that time, in the press conference, the CPU comparison of M3pro directly skipped M2, and PK with M1, it can be seen that the official wants to shake this part of the M1 user group.
The M3 Max chip is a single chip, because the number of transistors has further doubled on the basis of the M3 Pro, the number is as high as 92 billion, which also means a significant increase in performance. The 40-core GPU makes image processing up to 50% faster than the M1 Max, and the 16-core CPU delivers up to 80% faster performance than the M1 Max.
Obviously, the improvement of the super large cup is relatively sincere, and this chip with explosive performance is aimed at scenarios with extremely high computing power requirements, including large-scale video processing, generative AI applications, and so on. But for the average user, it is true that the performance is a bit excessive.
In fact, what really makes people vomit blood is here,M3The memory of the chip is actually 8GB start?14Inch 8GB+512GB MacBook Pro is priced at 12999,It's really only Apple can do!
In contrast, the 13.3-inch M2 MacBook Pro (starting price 9999 yuan), although the storage has increased by 256GB, the price is 3000 yuan more expensive.
For users who are still using the M1 chip16GB+256GB, if the current work content has not made the M1 performance unbearable, there is actually no need to replace and upgrade.
If you just want to upgrade your storage space, it's even more unnecessary. 256 upgraded to 512, but the memory has been reduced to8G, if you want more memory, you have to use the MacBook Pro equipped with M3Pro chip, but the price of 18GB+512GB is 16999 yuan, you need to add 4000.
And this is only an increase of 2GB of unified memory on the basic model, but the starting price is 1000 yuan more expensive. Have you found this price that is falling brightly and rising?
Really, I can't change it a little~
Therefore, for increasing storage space, I really recommend M1/M2 users to use it with NAS. For example, I have been using the Greenlink DX4600 private cloud NAS, which is equipped with four SATA hard disk bays and two M.2 solid-state card slots, which can support up to 96TB.
The price of empty disks is more than 1,000, I think it is more cost-effective than upgrading the memory of Apple 512 to 1TB for 3000. And as the work intensity increases, the computer will always be upgraded and replaced for performance, but the 96TB storage NAS can be used all the time.
If your various electronic devices are of different brands, cross-ecological office is a very troublesome thing, and Greenlink NAS has their own developed APP, which does not need us to toss, such as mobile phones, tablets, and computers can be downloaded and used. While it is simple and easy to use, it can also perfectly solve the problem of multi-device collaboration between different brands.
Like I usually need to edit videos, it's impossible to put important video materials in the network disk, it's easy to disappear inexplicably.
If you don't have krypton, the transmission speed is still very slow (real turtle speed jpg).
Therefore, it is very important to have a storage device like Greenlink NAS, firstly, to store the material locally, which is very safe and secure, and secondly, Greenlink DX4600 is equipped with dual 2.5G network ports, and it also supports three network modes, and the speed transmission can reach up to 500MB/s in the intranet aggregation mode.
If you want to save money,You don't need to go to the aggregation switch,2.5G bridge mode is generally stable at 260+MB/s, there is no big problem,Seriously, this is not much faster than that network disk,That thing is really bad。
At the same time, Greenlink DX4600 supports Samba protocol, so I will use Greenlink NAS as a local hard disk through SMB mounting, which will also be more convenient and efficient, and it will really expand computer storage inductively.
If you don't want to take such a bulky computer and the memory of your mobile phone can't hold such a large file, you can use the Greenlink Cloud APP, because it comes with intranet penetration, and you don't need to apply for any public IP at all, no matter where you are, you can directly open the APP to view, download, and share the data files stored in the NAS.
In general, if it is for those users who are still using the Intel version of the chip MacBook Pro, the suggestion is one word: "change"! Don't hesitate, because the Intel chip is really not good now, and the use of the M series chip will definitely make your eyes shine!
Relatively speaking, M2 and M3 will not have a particularly significant difference under the same memory configuration, and M1 has the advantage of starting from 16GB of memory, if you use Greenlink NAS to expand storage space like me, you will be fully competent for the current work, and there is no need to update. The M3 Max is a big improvement, but it's mostly in some high-load scenarios that the difference is noticeable.
Okay, this article is just my own personal humble opinion, if it helps you, remember to click three times in a row~