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It also appears they've dropped the memory bandwidth from 200GB/s on the M1/M2 Pro to 150MB/s on the M3 Pro, and you have to upgrade to the tippy top M3 Max chi

It also appears they've dropped the memory bandwidth from 200GB/s on the M1/M2 Pro to 150MB/s on the M3 Pro, and you have to upgrade to the tippy top M3 Max chip to get the full 400MB/s bandwidth experienced on the M1/M2 Max chips.

gtirloni 3y ago
I remember getting one of those shiny aluminum MacBooks in 2009. Then MacBooks turned plastic and the aluminum ones became MacBook Pro's. Is this a thing Apple does? I'm not an Apple customer for many years now.
- nomel 3y ago
  Apple hasn’t had any plastic devices for some time now.
  - gtirloni 3y ago
    I'm referring to the 2010 polycarbonate one here: https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook/specs/macbook-core-2-duo-2.4-white-13-polycarbonate-unibody-mid-2010-specs.html https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook/specs/macbook-cor... Not sure why my initial comment is -4 votes right now. What am I remembering wrong?
    - dmix 3y ago
      Nothing it’s a perfectly fine question, just maybe off topic.
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    - wtallis 3y ago
      What you described as a transition to plastic for the MacBook was actually the final iteration of a fairly long line of plastic MacBooks, most of which were a pretty similar design to the pre-Intel iBook. "MacBook" (not Pro) was plastic from the start, and introduced the same year as the MacBook Pro (always aluminum): 2006. The plastic MacBook was discontinued after the 2010 model. There was a one-off aluminum 13" MacBook in 2008, but it coexisted with the plastic MacBook and was not replaced by a plastic model—instead, the 13" model was promoted up to the MacBook Pro product line, which previously had been just 15" and 17". After several years of not having a plain MacBook, Apple did the 12" aluminum MacBook from 2015 to 2017. It was basically what they wished the MacBook Air could be, but was too expensive and too thermally constrained to truly replace the MacBook Air of the time. It was killed when they finally upgraded the MacBook Air to have a Retina display.
      - gtirloni 3y ago
        That solves the mystery, the one off aluminum "regular" MacBook that I bought. Thanks for this, excellent .
- amarshall 3y ago
  The plastic MacBooks were only made 2006–2010.
  - gtirloni 3y ago
    I bought an aluminum one in January 2009 if my memory serves me right. It was a nice machine, wasn't it first aluminum MacBook? I don't think it was the Pro version (if it even existed). I certainly didn't have money to buy anything but the cheapest model.
isametry 3y ago
(Just pointing out that all these numbers are in GB/s)

gtirloni 3y ago

I remember getting one of those shiny aluminum MacBooks in 2009. Then MacBooks turned plastic and the aluminum ones became MacBook Pro's. Is this a thing Apple does? I'm not an Apple customer for many years now.

nomel 3y ago
Apple hasn’t had any plastic devices for some time now.
- gtirloni 3y ago
  I'm referring to the 2010 polycarbonate one here: https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook/specs/macbook-core-2-duo-2.4-white-13-polycarbonate-unibody-mid-2010-specs.html https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook/specs/macbook-cor... Not sure why my initial comment is -4 votes right now. What am I remembering wrong?
  - dmix 3y ago
    Nothing it’s a perfectly fine question, just maybe off topic.
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  - wtallis 3y ago
    What you described as a transition to plastic for the MacBook was actually the final iteration of a fairly long line of plastic MacBooks, most of which were a pretty similar design to the pre-Intel iBook. "MacBook" (not Pro) was plastic from the start, and introduced the same year as the MacBook Pro (always aluminum): 2006. The plastic MacBook was discontinued after the 2010 model. There was a one-off aluminum 13" MacBook in 2008, but it coexisted with the plastic MacBook and was not replaced by a plastic model—instead, the 13" model was promoted up to the MacBook Pro product line, which previously had been just 15" and 17". After several years of not having a plain MacBook, Apple did the 12" aluminum MacBook from 2015 to 2017. It was basically what they wished the MacBook Air could be, but was too expensive and too thermally constrained to truly replace the MacBook Air of the time. It was killed when they finally upgraded the MacBook Air to have a Retina display.
    - gtirloni 3y ago
      That solves the mystery, the one off aluminum "regular" MacBook that I bought. Thanks for this, excellent .
amarshall 3y ago
The plastic MacBooks were only made 2006–2010.
- gtirloni 3y ago
  I bought an aluminum one in January 2009 if my memory serves me right. It was a nice machine, wasn't it first aluminum MacBook? I don't think it was the Pro version (if it even existed). I certainly didn't have money to buy anything but the cheapest model.

isametry 3y ago

(Just pointing out that all these numbers are in GB/s)