A space black Macbook Pro
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Is Apple Trying to Kill The MacBook Pro?

Andrew Zuo
Mac O’Clock
Published in
5 min readMar 6, 2024

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I recently went to a coworking spot and the person sitting next to me had a MacBook Pro. The fancy new one in space black.

The space black MacBook Pro was recently released with the M3 chip although it was only available if you got the M3 Pro chip or M3 Max chip, not the base M3 chip. So it’s obvious what Apple is doing here. They want you to buy the more expensive model…

And it totally worked! That space black MacBook Pro looked really nice. I have a rose gold MacBook Air and I like it but it just doesn’t seem as nice as the space black Pro. So I was looking into buying a space black Pro. But then I saw this video.

And in it Brian Tong compares the space black Pro to other MacBooks. First starlight, then silver, then space grey, and then finally midnight. And that midnight MacBook Air looks… just as good as the space black. Midnight looks almost the same as space black but with a blue tint.

Although the video goes on to point out that midnight does not have the same anodization as the space black MacBook Pro. Until now. Introducing the…

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Andrew Zuo
Mac O’Clock

Andrew Zuo is an independent app developer and blogger. He mostly blogs about interesting controversies around the internet and programming topics.