Professionals should buy Apple’s cheapest M3 MacBook Pro for one reason, and one reason only

Apple today unveiled three new Mac computers, the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros and the 24-inch iMac, all of which are powered by the company’s latest silicon advancement: the M3 chip. If you followed along with the “Scary Fast” keynote — which, fittingly, took just a fraction of the time these events typically require — then you may share the same takeaways as me.

1. Apple has a way with colors.
2. The M3 chipset is a beast for performance and efficiency.
3. There’s now a cheaper 14-inch MacBook Pro that starts at just $1,599.

Also: Everything Apple announced at its October ‘Scary Fast’ event (and what wasn’t unveiled)

That last point is probably the most interesting of the three, with Apple officially shuttering its 13-inch MacBook Pro model in favor of a new 14-inch MacBook Pro base configuration, which fields a relatively accessible price tag, a mere 8GB of RAM, 8-core CPU, and 10-core GPU. There are also just two Thunderbolt USB-C ports versus the three on the M3 Pro and M3…