With three MacBook models to choose from, which should you buy? Our guide examines the performance, battery life, design, and more to find your answer.
In 2020, Apple’s M1 chip in the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro 13 became the biggest improvement to the MacBook range in years, making them top laptops for 2021. Now, Apple has topped the M1 with its brand-new M1 Pro and M1 Max chips, which can be found inside the MacBook Pro 14 and MacBook Pro 16 that were launched at Apple’s Unleashed event in October. These chips are some of the most powerful on the market, but there’s no doubting they’re very expensive.
Buying a MacBook is about more than just the chip powering it, though. The good news here is that the MacBook Pro 14 offers a lot more than just blistering performance. Its external chassis is a little thicker than the MacBook Pro 13, but that allows it to fit a chunky HDMI port into the side of the machine. You’ll also find an SD card slot and an old favorite in the form of MagSafe, in addition to three Thunderbolt 4 ports.
Not everything is great, though. For one thing, the MacBook Pro 14 is a pricey machine. It starts at $1,999 and scales all the way up to $5,899 if you max out every option . You get a laptop that will absolutely steamroll almost any task in return, but this device is expensive. What is even more remarkable is that the MacBook Air does all this without a fan. The M1 chip is so power-efficient that Apple has been able to cool this Mac entirely passively, while still enabling it to post some truly beefy performance numbers. If you love your laptops to be absolutely silent, this is a major draw. All that extra power efficiency means the Air lasted 18.5 hours in our video-playback test and 15.5 hours with light web usage. That is incredible longevity.
Now that the MacBook Pro 14 is out, the MacBook Air can’t hope to top the Mac performance charts. But its M1 chip is still brilliant for all but the most heavy-duty work, and for most people, it’s more than enough. The problem with the MacBook Pro 16 is the cost. It starts at $2,499, which is $100 more than the 2019 model began at. It’s also $500 more than the MacBook Pro 14, yet probably the most noticeable difference is just the size. You’ll get comparable performance in the MacBook Pro 14 because you can equip it with exactly the same chip, memory configuration, SSD storage, and more. That makes the MacBook Pro 16 quite a niche machine, and definitely more than what most consumers need.
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