14-Inch Apple MacBook Pro With M3 Review

Apple released 14 and 16-inch variants of the MacBook Pros touting its newly-released M3 chips

It doesn’t bring a lot of new upgrades and doesn’t make much sense if you’re on an M2-series chip already

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Probably one of the most exciting things about this release (at least for me) is the new Space Black color variant

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Sadly, that’s only for the 14-inch version with the Pro and Max chips, so I didn’t get to experience that, and my heart is broken.

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The configuration I was sent hosted the M3 chip, along with 16GB of memory and 1TB of storage (in gray) for $1,999

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I only have two Thunderbolt ports, as opposed to the 14-inch models with M3 Pro and M3 Max, both of which host three Thunderbolt ports.

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Like the 2021 M1 MacBook Pro and the 2023 M2 model, Apple has decided not to include a USB-A port

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I get the idea behind giving M3 users one less Thunderbolt port than M3 Pro and M3 Max folks. It didn’t give me any FOMO either; the two available ports met all my USB-4 needs.

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There’s nothing new here since the M2 release. You get the same Liquid Retina XDR display that you did on this laptop’s older models

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The 14-inch variant with the M3 chip features an 8-core CPU, 10-core GPU, and a 16-core Neural Engine

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As far as benchmarks, we see fairly modest gains, with the M3 MacBook Pro scoring a 3129 single-core Geekbench CPU score compared to 1965 on the M2 Pro MacBook Pro

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Similarly, this MacBook’s 3311 Cinebench GPU score compared to 1260 on the M1 is a considerable bump

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M3 MacBook Pro Battery, Speakers and Camera The speakers and battery are considerably better, and the camera is the same as before

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I YouTubed for hours on this machine, watching everything from vlogs, sports, TED talks, and songs

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