Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with the powerful M3 chip

Re:Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with th... by piva00 on Monday March 04, 2024 @04:43PM (#39596521)

My MacBook Pro M3 has 36GiB RAM and does all of the comment above + music producing (dozens of VSTs on some 1-2 dozens tracks) + projection mapping and can run some LLM models locally like the Mistral ones.

I've only managed to hear the fan when chatting with a LLM, for anything else it's been an absolutely silent beast.

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Re:Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with th... by nerdbert on Monday March 04, 2024 @06:36PM (#39597586)

Mine has 16GB and I regularly use some Mistral LLM as well as OpenHermes.

The only things that ever seems to get my fan going are transcoding a video or a really long compile.

Never once has the fan run during web browsing or any of the many everyday tasks that used to bring my previous one to its knees.

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Re:Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with th... by bombcar on Monday March 04, 2024 @05:27PM (#39596992)

I have an M1 Max with 32GiB and similarly - never had it complain or noticed it unhappy about anything, or felt I needed more RAM or CPU.

It's going to be hard to justify upgrading this thing for awhile.

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Re:Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with th... by varispeed on Monday March 04, 2024 @05:56PM (#39597284)

I have M2 Pro 16GB from a client. It's comfortable for typical dev work - tons of tabs open, Docker, VS Code etc. Though the swap is about 20GB now and sometimes it lags. Still it beats any Intel or AMD laptop I ever had in terms of performance. This machine is on a whole another level.

My own machines are M1 Max 32GB and they fare slightly better.

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