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I’m a reluctant hardware upgrader, but finally got an Apple Silicon machine. And I’m really, really noticing what others have said:

It’s snappy. Very snappy.

It’s snappy in a way that raw speed can’t explain. My perfectly fast Intel machine has lots of little pauses and lurches and burbles that are just…gone. Waking, launching things, plugging in the external display, all just poof! happen.

Why? Again, it’s not just CPU/GPU speed. It feels like there was some OS resource contention, some gear-shifting, some human-scale try-and-wait timer, that’s now eliminated.

Anyone have insight into why this is? I’m genuinely curious.

(It is also worth mentioning that on the CPU/GPU front, the M3 Max is just stupid fast.)

Because nobody asked, other quick thoughts on the new M3 MBP vs my 2019 Intel MBP:

I miss the old machine’s weight (~0.2 kg / 0.5 lbs lighter) and its shape. The curve of the case was so elegant.

The new keyboard is magnificent, even vs post-butterfly MBP.

As much as I wanted to like it, I don’t miss the Touch Bar, with one exception: adjusting brightness on multiple displays.

Dedicated SDXC port: why?? I’d rather have another Thunderbolt.

The notch bothers me •far• less than I’d expected.

@inthehands I was about to go on a rant about how much I hate the touch bar, but since I basically turned it to just always show f-keys a couple years ago I haven't turned my computer off by accident at all, and now it's just pointless instead of actively bad.

@aubilenon
I had mine finagled so that it was effectively blank unless I had the fn key pressed.

I still think it might have eventually succeeded if they’d made it pressure-sensitive (so no spurious touches) and given it haptic feedback just like the trackpad’s. Oh well.

@inthehands IMO they should've gone with a mechanical action but OLED keycaps.

The most ridiculous thing you could do with it as it was is there was an emoji selector function where you ... just swipe linearly through the whole list of emoji. It was completely unusable to the point of hilarity.

Paul Cantrell

@aubilenon I did appreciate having two continuous tracks for adjusting the brightness on two monitors. Actually, that’s pretty much the only thing I miss about it.