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I find the cinebench benchmarks meh, every YouTuber and every publisher uses it, few YouTubers do more of a practical test which is quite more useful. I would like to see a comparison with older models as most people that have an m3 are not considering an upgrade.

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Same. For me, I took a program I wrote / am writing that’s extremely CPU and disk intensive, and compared the execution time. It’s 2x faster on an M4 Pro compared to an M1. That’s worth it to me.

It's a fair point, but Apple's also taken a lot of heat for comparing their new models to ancient ones rather than the previous one, so that they can show an even bigger performance jump.

Counterpoint: I see a lot of people in discussion threads talking about if they should upgrade from their M1 purchase. (And I count myself in their number.) It's highly likely Apple knows this, and not too much of a stretch to think they're communicating the number that they think it's important to this customer - how much better it would be if you upgraded today.

It's very predictable at this point that nearly everyone has the same videos, it feels like me trying to not plagiarize Wikipedia in middle school; "I'll change a word here, rephrase a sentence there, done!". Also true in many other content categories, everyone uses the same source material, same review units, same benchmarks, often the same editing style. I'd say it's a negative, but I've been watching less and less of it since noticing the pattern.

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