The screen is substantially better, and the addition of the ports will be useful for a lot of people. Honestly, the base Apple Silicon chips are more than fast

The screen is substantially better, and the addition of the ports will be useful for a lot of people. Honestly, the base Apple Silicon chips are more than fast enough for most people, if they supported more than one external display I would have no problem recommending the M3 MacBook Pro with a RAM upgrade.