M2 air - consumer / light creativity laptop & THE Mac laptop to buy in this price range.

M3 base 8GB RAM MBP - corporate purchase computer for managers who are running MS office and keynote.

Expensive for what it is but they’ll claim back some of the sales tax.

No consumers and genuine pros should ever buy this machine - it’s not meant for you.

What about the plain 'ol 12? (Being selfish here as I might get one):

Not that bothered about:

The camera being bad compared to new phones, because ML upscaling etc. will be amazing in a few years time.

- Not too much RAM, as ‘Chat GPT Siri’ around the corner and we’ll all need to buy phones with more RAM and neural engines anyway (even iPhone 15 pro max users).

- Not too much storage (I’m considering the base 64GB version) - I don’t have many apps and no, I don’t need to carry my content around with me. That’s what iCloud and the cloud in general is for.

I like nothing a lot. But it seems that their desire to get publicity from this and prove a point really created a mess.

Suggest that they wait until Apple supports the encrypted rcs standard.