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The M3 MacBook Pro range is so sneaky that I'm thinking of ditching Apple (www.digitalcameraworld.com)
submitted 10 months ago by tcgoetz to c/apple_enthusiast
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This article really resonated with me. I currently have a 2019 16" i9 MacBook Pro and looking for what the M3 upgrade would be was really frustrating. No clear path and all of the options cost way more than my current machine.

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[–] hperrin 2 points 10 months ago

A lot of this is why I don’t use a MacBook as my main laptop now that I work for myself. I wanted a laptop with 2TB, and when I bought my Acer laptop, I only needed 512GB. So, I took it apart, took out the old drive and put in a 2TB NVMe. That’s not possible with a MacBook. I’ve also added more RAM in my laptop as my needs have changed. Also not possible with a MacBook.

I have a MacBook Air that I use to build the iPhone and Mac versions of my apps, and that’s about all it does. It was the cheapest MacBook when I bought it, and I chose it because I knew I’d never actually be doing any work on it. It’s not a bad machine, but it will never get any better than it is right now.

But hey, my business partner wanted a Mac to actually work on, so I bought her a $3000+ MacBook. Was it worth it? No. But that’s what she wanted, and yeah, Apple pressured me into getting nearly the top of the line MacBook, because in 6 years, if it’s a lower spec, she’ll just need a whole new laptop. It will not grow with her, so she needs the maximum capability she could conceivably need at the end of its expected lifetime. And that sucks.