M3 Pro 14in MacBook Pro: 2 Weeks Later. NOT What I Expected

The M3 Pro MacBook Pro, on paper, looks like a very marginal upgrade compared to, well this year’s model. The M2 Pro MacBook Pro literally came out 9 months before this. Someone could’ve had a child in that time frame. There can’t be that many updates right? I spent over 2 weeks with this laptop, and here’s my experience with it.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:21 What’s New?
1:25 User Experience
4:17 Interesting Benchmarks
5:25 What Should You Buy?
7:39 Conclusion

Before this I was rocking a 14in M1 Pro Macbook pro. The M3 Pro Macbook pro looks identical to it except for the new space black color. The M3 Pro MacBook pro also comes with a color matched black magsafe charger, but the charging brick itself is still white. To summarize, what’s new about this model vs last year's M2 Pro boils down to, a new chip, slightly brighter display, slightly more RAM, and new color.

Here’s a quick rundown of what I do day to day. I edit YouTube videos, thumbnails for those youtube videos, research video topics, write scripts, handle my business expenses, plan out my YouTube production schedule, and plan sponsor segments all off this machine. I’m constantly multi-tasking off of it. Basically, I use it as the center of my YouTube life. And for that, it’s done really really well. The laptop doesn’t get hot until I’m nose deep into editing a youtube video in FCPX but even then it runs a little cooler than my old M1 pro version, but the fan is a little more audible when you’re pushing it. But even then, it doesn’t get super loud. Battery life feels comparable to the M1 Pro version and the 18GB of ram adds a little more headroom than what I had on the M1 Pro Macbook Pro and I struggled trying to get it to hit the cap except when I had like 10 safari tabs open, and had to render a whole 15 minute video in Final Cut Pro at the same time. This laptop is an absolute monster at getting crap done and is a real workhorse. Whatever I reasonably throw at it, it gets it done. Butmy M1 Pro MacBook pro, that I use today. Is still exactly everything I used to describe the M3 Pro. Fast, gets everything done, has great battery life and rarely stutters. The new Space black is nice, but overall I think it’s still more fingerprint-y than the space gray but less than the midnight color on the their macbook airs, and I’m worried how the ports will look long term after using this laptop for a while. Since I’ve personally seen how their midnight MacBook air laptops look after a year.

If you’re rocking any Intel Macbook, this one will blow you away with its performance to the point where you might even consider the cheaper M2 Macbook air or M3 Macbook pro. It’s that great of a difference. But if you’re on an Apple Silicon mac already. You’re good for a long time. The only real reason I would see someone on an Apple Silicon Mac needing to upgrade is someone who’s using a non/pro chip needing the pro variant instead or needing more ram now. So if you’re planning to upgrade to a 14in MacBook pro. Which one should you buy? That’s gotten harder to determine, because Apple has staggered the Macbook lineup perfectly into a staircase with really expensive steps. If you want something for general everyday tasks, get the M2 air. You want something with a really nice screen for streaming videos to? M3 14in Pro. You’re using this laptop to get things done? M3 14in Pro with 16 GBs of ram. That extra ram will be super helpful. You code, design, edit photos, or videos? M3 Pro. And if you need the absolute best, then M3 Max Macbook Pro. But keep in mind that thing is completely overkill for 99% of users and also requires a downpayment on a new car.