Apple’s 1st little Scary Fast trick worked perfectly!
One week ago we were getting ready to find out what Apple had in store for us…and it’s only now it’s starting to make some sense!
On the face of it, last Monday’s Scary Fast from Apple was just another event — or to be even more precise, it was just another Mac event.
As it turns out, the event’s name had as much to do with the speed with which Apple cracked through the event as it did with the more obvious link to the speeds on the new Macs.
There were a couple of firsts last Monday — it was the first nighttime event from Apple and the first time that they had launched a complete family of new silicon at a single event. We got it all M3, M3 Pro and M3 Max — the Ultra was the only silicon member missing, but as that is essentially two Max chips bonded together, the boffins out there can work out what we can expect when it does come along.
Apple playing a fast one
The range of Macs that benefited from the new silicon confused me a bit though — in fact, the release schedule this year has been odd. In January, normally a month where the tumbleweed blows through, we got M2 Pro & Max silicon in the Mac mini and MacBook Pros — both 14-inch and 16-inch.
