December 06 2023, 23:17

First impressions of the MacBook M3 Max:

1) Cool screen. Very black black.

2) Hibernate on my M3 Max starts up in 31 seconds. On a MacBook with an Intel Core i9-9980HK CPU 2.40GHz 32Gb with SSD, the same code took 173 seconds. That’s 5.5 times slower. This is really cool.

3) The battery discharges much slower. I’ve been putting load on the CPU for over an hour, and 100% has turned into 91% 🙂 This is probably more of a contrast effect with a three-year-old laptop whose battery is already dying. The old laptop would have nearly drained by now.

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