Apple MacBook M3

Can't reproduce. Second one this thread where someone had this error "for years" but I can't reproduce. Smells of a setting that's been migrated for years from an old version, as where I'm writing from is a clean macbook with a clean account (M3, about a year old now). EDIT: can repro. But it's very important to note: you need to have a color selected already. So select a color with the + sign, close the app, open it, top right click custom color, and then the bug appears, although not like you describe: the color selection is easy, it jumps around for 20ms during dragging. If this is what we call "low quality" I'm happy to stay on Mac. Might be a reason why it wasn't fixed if you didn't include that vital step in your repro.

That is a good point, but not exactly what I meant. When I was picking out that Lenovo laptop, there were dozens of different laptops just from Lenovo alone with lots of hardware variety. Then consider all the different manufacturers I could have also chosen from. With that much hardware, it's hard to find comprehensive reviews matching the exact laptop I was looking at. And from the few reviews I did find, none of them mentioned that issue. A model of non-Apple laptop could have serious issues, but since it's not Apple, it wouldn't have anywhere near the same media presence an Apple laptop would. With their few SKUs and popularity, the issues are visible. I did not need to follow Macs closely to know about the butterfly keyboard issues, overheating issues, etc. I wouldn't have purchased a Mac back then given those issues. But Apple got their stuff together and fixed that. And when I was considering the M3, there were no hints of any hardware issues from the reviews I saw and discourse I read online. And thankfully that matches my experience, it's the most robust and "it just works" laptop I've used.

Same here. I use a MacBook M3 for work and it's nice (still on Sequoia though - new macOS looks horrible) but I also have my own 2012 MBP still working and running (recently taken out of the cupboard due to my Lenovo dying) with Linux on it; replaced the battery, put in more RAM, and put in a different SSD and it's still fine. Well made hardware.

The upgrade to 6E was a big jump in my network (Wifi7 Unifi Wall AP). On the same spot, the M3 MacBook (6E) has basically zero lag over VNC, while the M1 MacBook (6) has a noticeable lag. It’s a bit mind blowing how big the difference is.

Man did I despise that keyboard. I went from hating that to adoring my M3. Which feels good because I loved my MacBook before those butterfly switches, and again I love my MacBook now. I almost left apple entirely over those stupid switches lol.

This is a very impressive release. At 17h to 20hr battery life on Linux, I'll finally be a able to solve my MacBook addiction. With my M2 MacBook running Asahi Linux or my work M3 MacBook running MacOS I easily get 10+hrs on battery. I've made several "attempts" to jump ship from Apple hardware before, like the dell XPS "developer edition" which ships with Linux so all the hardware was supported out of the box; the hardware was OK, but the battery life was abysmal. If I can't get 8hr of battery on a machine battery it's just a portable desktop.

I am running 80b Qwen coder next 4bit quant MLX version on a 96GB M3 MacBook and it responds quickly, almost immediately. I can fit the model + 128k context comfortably into the memory

Looks good Not a lot of web sites have made my Macbook M3 show signs of stress ;)

What's difficult with font SDFs on the CPU? The bezier paths? I made myself a CPU SDF library last weekend, primarily for fast shadow textures. It was fun, and I was surprised how well most basic SDFs run with SIMD. Except yeah Beziers didn't fair well. Fonts seem much harder. SIMD was easy, just asked Claude to convert my scalar Nim code to Neon SIMD version and then to an sse2 version. Most SDFs and gaussian shadowing got 4x speedup on my macbook m3. It's a bit surprising the author has so much trouble in Rust. Perhaps fp16 issues?

I used Whisky with M1 and M3 Macbooks. It certainly helped me run games much faster than a $300 Windows laptop ever could.

Video is accelerated and works fine. Google maps is useable (I just tested it) but not great. It's not too much worse than it is on my MUCH faster M3 Macbook, though. I think I just don't like Google maps. Apple maps works better on both devices. I'm not going to pretend it's not a comparatively slow computer, but the most it really affects is application launch. Starting Firefox or Chrome is pretty bad: five to ten seconds. Once it's launched, however, it's mostly fine.

It greatly depends on the laptop, even within the same manufacturer. I have lots of old Apple gear that still works but is just too old to get security updates: - 2012 13" MBP, works great with an SSD upgrade, and the hinge is still solid, which was not the case with my 2009 15" MBP where the screen literally ripped off. - 2013 15" retina MBP. Great laptop, still plenty fast to use today, but runs a little hot and the battery life was never amazing. - 2015 12" retina Macbook. Survived two glasses of water spilled on it, but the speakers and bluetooth died. It was miserably slow to use anyway. My daily driver is now a 15" M3 Macbook, which has been amazing in nearly every way. Only minor complaints is that the ram maxes out at 24GB and I wish I had 1 more USB port on the other side.

An M3 vs an Intel Macbook from 10 years ago is a shockingly large leap forward (I say this as someone who has both).

I’m impressed by how well semi-recent games run on my M3 Macbook using GPTK and Rosetta through Whisky. (30-60fps on high settings at the native ~2k resolution.) Apple could turn the Mac into a truly great gaming platform if they had a team dedicated to building and maintaining something akin to Proton. Alas…

I must say, I am very happy with my 16" M3 MacBook and iPhone 13. The new 16" MacBooks are the nicest laptops I've used since the old 17" MacBooks. I guess enjoying quality products makes me an idiot to some people. I'm not easily offended. :). The M3 Mac is a real beast of a machine and the iPhone does exactly what I want it to. I originally bought a MacBook after years of using Linux desktops because I wanted a stable POSIX compliant OS (with a complete nix user land) AND a nice desktop environment that "just worked". And that's what I got. I have about 30 years of development and sysadmin experience on nix systems, so, I feel a bit neutered on Windows. No doubt Windows guys feel the same way in *nix environments. Unfortunately the "year of the Linux Desktop" still seems years away. Yes, Linux as a Desktop Environment is feasible (and I do use it often), but, it's still an inconsistent pain in the ass.

Works beautifully on my macbook m3 with 128gb.

With batched parallel requests this scales down further. Even a MacBook M3 on battery power can do inference quickly and efficiently. Large scale training is the power hog.

No. But that laptop could easily last ten+ years. If they're just starting to get it working now I doubt the experience is going to have all the kinks worked out for a while anyhow.