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Hands on with the new MacBook Pro, iOS 17.2 features, future of the iMac

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🗓️ 10 November 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Following the review embargo lifting for the M3 iMac and MacBook Pro lineup this week, Chance talks about his hands-on experience with the new MacBook Pro. Benjamin and Chance also discuss the uncharacteristic Apple PR statement about the future of the iMac roadmap, the disappointing outlook for the AirPods Max, and all the new features coming in iOS 17.2.

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Chance Miller

Benjamin Mayo

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0:00.0

I fear that this is going to be like a very contentious episode, Mayo, at least parts of it.

0:05.2

It's not super contentious.

0:06.5

Is of a particular purchasing decision I made after going over the Matbut Pro reviews because none of us got any of them so we're relying

0:14.0

what other people have reported about it to know how good they are or not. I definitely

0:18.5

didn't tell you I wasn't going to make a purchase and tell the entire world that

0:22.1

I wasn't going to make a purchase.

0:23.4

Then make the purchase. But yeah, we'll talk about the reviews first from the

0:27.0

professionals who got the review units from Apple.

0:30.9

I mean it was basically as expected right because this is an incremental

0:37.8

generation as in the designs of the both the iMac and the M

0:40.4

M

0:36.4

Pro is identical to the previous model apart from the color. that both the iMac and the M

0:46.4

the MSPPRA pro is identical to the previous model apart from the color and the big difference

0:47.0

is the internal chip upgrade and when they announced the specs last week we didn't

0:51.2

know for sure but you could kind of back out rough approximations, and it mostly fell in line with what we expected to.

0:59.6

So like, there were, I didn't really come to these reviews expecting any surprises and there wasn't really any right yeah

1:07.1

The M3 MacBook Pro reviews so the base model the new 1599 machine. Those reviews seem to primarily focus on the starting point of 8

1:17.4

gigabytes of RAM and the single display limitation that we talked about a

1:21.8

little bit last week.

1:23.0

It seems to be kind of divisive. Lots of people are saying

1:26.8

no Macbook with a pro and the name should start at 8 gigabytes.

1:31.6

Everyone else is saying Apple Silicon, you know, you have swapped to the

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