MacBook Pro M3 Pro After 3 Months: Why It's Not What You Expected

Rocking a 14" MacBook Pro M2Pro 16GB RAM 1TB SSD - it's truly perfection! That display, the build quality, the speakers, the amazing battery life, the design. It's perfect!

I really appreciate reviews like this that are based in reality vs over-hyping minor differences that the average user won’t notice. I need to replace my 10 year old MacBook Pro this year and I’m leaning toward the MacBook Pro M3 Pro. Your down-to-earth and very genuine style of communicating is refreshing. Please continue to keep up the great work!

Great video, informative and great shooting and editing. Thank You.

After a month or so of internal struggle, I finally decided to get an M3 Pro and swap over from Windows. It's an amazing machine that I can't see myself getting rid of for a looong time

This video really helps a lot, thank u

Thanks for another very informative, unbiased video. I still use both an M1 Studio Max and a refurb'd M1 Pro MBP 14 and, like you, I got the laptop after the desktop. I've considered moving to a laptop only setup like you did but I don't want to take the hit on selling the Studio, and I like using the laptop as a second display. Maybe I'll change my mind when the M4 chips are released.

Thank you for the update the amazing editing on your video. I have the same specs as yours, and i don't do any intensive work on the Mac, but I have it connected to a 4k monitor and I have 2 different profiles open of chrome which might have 65+ tab open in total (2 tabs videos). That does stress my ram and I receive a window to start closing some applications. I know this is an edge case and not a lot have a lot of Chrome windows open but thought i would share

I just ordered a MacBook Pro and was having second thoughts, thanks for the clear and honest review. And I love your desk set up

Thanks, you answered all my questions

Fantastic review, thank you! What tols are you using to test memory usage etc on you workload?

Good in depth review, found out a little of details I didn’t even know! Kudos

Regarding battery health - I’ve had my launch M1 Pro 14” plugged in its whole life and it still is at 100% health over two year later. The optimized battery setting keeps it at like 78% charge. I’m actually kind of shocked how well this battery is holding up.

hey man, ran into your vid and like it. I currently have the 2021 M1 MacBook Pro 14" 1TB ssd 16GB Memory 10CPU and 16GPU (was on sale at best buy) I wanted to upgraded (mainly for that black) or should I stick with this? is there really any noticeable difference at all? are the speakers a downgrade? is it something noticable (which I love on my M1 mine by the way) or maybe just wait it out? I'd love to get a feed back if possible! thanks in advance btw im in school and programming and that's one of the main thing that caught my attention!

Man, your video just confirms that I’m just fine with my full cores M1 Pro, M2 or M3 Pro are not big updates, thanks for that.

Really enjoyed your video. One of the best reviews for the m3 pro for the 512gb/18gb version. I appreciated your honesty with your needs and how it was just fine for the specs you have. Made me think twice and decided to get the 512gb ssd and store most of my files on my external. Appreciate you sharing your thoughts and look forward to more of your future videos!

thank you so much, i was looking for a video with final cut pro playback performance on 4k sony footage, i was considering the M3 Pro with upgraded RAM as my workflow is quite demanding, this video cleared my questions on it

Great review. I got the same as you, the base M3 pro MacBook. It hits a sweet spot for price vs performance. The M3 Max MacBooks were great but if you don't need all that power, a waste of money. The M3 pro has phenomenal battery life and speed, and the lovely space gray ( which looks black in low light) is great.

m3pro 16' MacBook is my first apple computer. It is an amazing and relaxing machine. For 30 plus years, I used ms windows/ms dos machines. I wish I had switched to apple sooner.

Good video pal. I bought the M3 Max recently, these machines are amazing lol

9GB of RAM for Lightroom is ridiculous and its always been a memory hog. Adobe really needs to optimize that software.