It's All About Apple This Week -- March 5, 2024

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Featuring an 8-core CPU, up to a 10-core GPU, and support for up to 24GB of unified memory, the new MacBook Air is up to 60 percent faster than the model with M1 and up to 13x faster than the fastest Intel-based MacBook Air, according to Apple.  

For context:

• my workhorse: a 2018, Intel-based 13" MacBook Air;
• my backup and on-the-road stallion: a 2020 M1 13" MacBook Air
• by this time next year, the mustang: a 2024 M3 15" MacBook Air

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Reminder: I am inappropriately exuberant about the US economy and the US market, I am also inappropriately exuberant about all things Apple.

Personal investing: 

• adding significant amount of AAPL to my position, this week (not necessarily today)
  
• currently only AAPL is in my "tech" bucket
• only ticker I'm buying this week AAPL

Apple announcing new M3 products this month.

Need to start here: twice the speed at half the cost -- that was a year ago. It just gets better and better.

This was last year:

In lane one: the highest-end Intel-based Mac Pro with a (holy mackerel look at this) 28-core Xeon W processor: cost? It starts at $12,999. Remember this is an Apple Mac Pro using an Intel-processor; two configurations:

• single-core
• multi-core

In lane two: the new Apple-chip Mac Pro, two configurations

• single-core
• multi-core

Results: 

• first race, single core:
• in lane one: INTEL MAC PRO speed, single core: 1,378 mph 
• in lane two: APPLE MAC PRO speed, single core: 2,794 mph
• first race, multi-core:
  
• in lane two: INTEL MAC PRO speed, multi-core: 10,390 mph
• in lane one: APPLE MAC PRO speed, multi-core: 21,453 mph

Again:

• Intel best: 10,390 mph
• Apple: 21,453 mph

Price:

• Intel best: starts at $12,999
• Apple: $6,999

In other words, buy the top-of-the line Intel-based Apple Mac Pro for twice the cost of the Apple M2 Mac Pro and get half the speed.

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So, Now, March, 2024

The above "race" was between the two "ultra-high" end computers last summer.

Since then, Apple has moved from M1, quickly through M2 (a marketing ploy, simply two M1s), and now the M3.

Link here. 

So, again, the race above, between ultra-high end computers last year, two huge desktops:

• Intel best, $12,999: 10,390 mph
• Apple best, $6,999: 21,453 mph

Now, the Apple MacBook Air with the new M3 chip, three wide going into the first turn:

• Intel best, $12,999: 10,390 mph.
• Apple best, $6,999: 21,453 mph.
• Apple new M3 laptop, the 15" MacBook Air: $1,299: 10,120 mph.

Featuring an 8-core CPU, up to a 10-core GPU, and support for up to 24GB of unified memory, the new MacBook Air is up to 60 percent faster than the model with M1 and up to 13x faster than the fastest Intel-based MacBook Air, according to Apple.

From the link: