The laptop feels hefty and substantial-this is not an ultraportable laptop, by any means. If you’re upgrading, you probably won’t notice the difference during occasional trips from your desk to the conference room or between rooms of your home.
That’s up slightly from the 0.64-inch thickness and 4.3-pound weight of its predecessor, but this isn’t a machine that’s intended to be carried around all day with you wherever you go. The 16-inch MacBook Pro measures 0.66 by 14 by 9.8 inches (HWD) and weighs 4.8 pounds. If you’re still interested in the 16-inch model, let’s continue the review by taking a closer look at the few differences that do exist between it and its little sibling, starting with the obvious one: size. Everyone else should head over to our analysis of the 14-inch MacBook Pro to see why we think it’s a better option. Some of you may find the opposite to be true, in which case you’re in the right place. That’s why we’re giving the 14-inch model an Editors’ Choice award, but not the 16-inch version reviewed here. But if you’re like many pros looking for a blend of portability and power, we suspect that these compromises might turn you off, especially if you’ve already got an external monitor at home or the office to do most of your multitasking and other tasks that require big screens. If you can stomach spending a lot of extra dough and carrying around a significantly bulkier and heavier chassis for two additional inches of screen real estate, the 16-incher is a no-brainer. So your choice really comes down to size, weight, and price. What’s more, nearly all of the standard and optional features of the 16-inch MacBook Pro are also available on the smaller 14-inch model at lower prices. The base-configuration 16-inch MacBook Pro is $100 more expensive than its predecessor, and prices increase steeply when you add the M1 Max processor option along with the extraordinary amounts of memory (up to 64GB!) and storage (up to 8TB!) that Apple offers. This model is all about the specialized usage cases of macOS-bound content pros for whom processing times are money, writ large.
But the latest 16-inch MacBook Pro (starts at $2,499 $4,299 as tested) isn’t so much more powerful or capable than its competitors-or its new 14-inch little sibling-in conventional CPU metrics that every pro user will be able to justify its high cost.
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Just as its predecessor did, the new laptop holds its own against Windows mobile workstations. In addition to ditching Intel processors for Cupertino’s own M1 Pro and M1 Max, the biggest of the MacBook Pros gains more input/output ports and a gorgeous new XDR display. It’s been a long wait, but this fall Apple’s flagship 16-inch MacBook Pro finally gets the Apple M1 silicon treatment.
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