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My favorite Amazon offer of the day: this MacBook Pro M3 with boosted memory
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My favorite Amazon offer of the day: this MacBook Pro M3 with boosted memory

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The last MacBook Pro M3 range is one of the best Apple laptops your money can buy right now, and people certainly knew that, with the MacBook Pro M3 Laptop with 8GB RAM sold within hours of being put on sale for $1,099 (originally $1,599) this Monday morning (but you can still get it at Best Buy). But what most people don’t know is the same thing MacBook Pro laptop with M3 chip and 16 GB of RAM and 1TB SSD storage is also on sale for $1,399 (originally $1,999), and it’s actually a a lot best deal. At its current price, it’s at the lowest price since its release, according to price tracking tools.

The cheaper M3 chip MacBook Pro that’s sold out starts with the same 8-core CPU and 10-core GPU, but more importantly, 8GB RAM that will obsolete quite quickly, as tech writer Pranay Parab pointed out (honestly, it already seems outdated). For an extra $300, you can double the memory to 16GB and double the storage to 1TB SSD. Here are the specifications:

  • 8-core processor

  • 10-core GPU

  • 16 GB of RAM

  • 1TB SSD

A 16GB RAM laptop has unofficially become the standard for decent memory that will keep up with multitasking, graphic design, video editing, coding, or any other demanding task. As Pranay says, if you don’t plan to replace your laptop every few years, increasing RAM is a great way to future-proof your Mac.

As Mashable points out in its MacBook Pro M3 chip testThis laptop has an impressive battery life of almost 17 hours on a single charge, a familiar design compared to previous models with much faster performance and it has excellent speakers.