My Favorite Amazon Deal of the Day: This Memory-Boosted M3 MacBook Pro
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The latest MacBook Pro M3 lineup is one of the best Apple laptops your money can buy right now, and people certainly knew that, with the 8GB RAM MacBook Pro Laptop M3 selling out within hours of going on sale for $1,099 (originally $1,599) this Monday morning (but you can still get it from Best Buy). But what most people don’t know is that the same MacBook Pro Laptop M3 chip laptop with 16GB RAM and 1TB SSD storage is also on sale for $1,399 (originally $1,999), and it’s actually a much better deal. At its current price, it’s at the lowest price it has been since its release, according to price-tracking tools.
The cheaper M3 chip MacBook Pro that sold out starts with the same 8‑core CPU and 10‑core GPU, but more importantly, an 8 GB RAM that will be outdated pretty quickly, as tech writer Pranay Parab pointed out (it honestly already feels outdated). For the extra $300, you can double the memory to 16 GB and double the storage to 1TB SSD. Here are the specs:
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8-core CPU
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10-core GPU
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16GB of RAM
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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 demanding task. As Pranay says, if you don’t plan to swap out your laptop every few years, bumping up the RAM is a great way to future-proof your Mac.
As Mashable points out in their review of the M3 chip MacBook Pro, this laptop has an impressive battery life of nearly 17 hours on a single charge, a familiar design compared to previous models with much faster performance, and it has great speakers.
