Apple MacBook Pro 14-inch (2021) review
Our Verdict
The MacBook Pro 2021 (14-inch) is the long-lasting super-fast laptop many have waited for.
For
- Blisteringly-fast operation
- Gorgeous mini-LED display
- Epic bombardment life
- HDMI, SD memory and MagSafe return
- Comfortable Magic Keyboard
- 1080p webcam
Against
- No USB-A port
- No update to $1,299 model
Tom's Guide Verdict
The MacBook Pro 2021 (fourteen-inch) is the long-lasting super-fast laptop many take waited for.
Pros
- +
Blisteringly-fast performance
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Gorgeous mini-LED display
- +
Epic battery life
- +
HDMI, SD memory and MagSafe return
- +
Comfy Magic Keyboard
- +
1080p webcam
Cons
- -
No USB-A port
- -
No update to $1,299 model
The Apple MacBook Pro 2021 (fourteen-inch) is an important laptop. And that's not but because of what it has, just besides for what it erases. The marquee features start with the new M1 Pro scrap, a seriously super-charged upgrade over the M1 chips that upped speeds and battery life last yr.
And then, there'south the new Liquid Retina XDR displays, which offer improved contrast and refresh rates. Apple's too brought MagSafe charging — a safer way to refuel — back to the MacBook Pro.
Equally for what we're happy to encounter gone? Apple tree'southward shrunk the MacBook Pro display bezels downwards significantly (though information technology establish a notch that caused trouble underneath) and thrown out the Touch on Bar. Both of these changes would accept been adulation lines had Apple had revealed this laptop to the public and not on a live stream.
On top of that, nosotros've got an HDMI port and an SD memory reader, 2 ports that the MacBook Pro hasn't had since 2015. So, this MacBook Pro 2021 (xiv-inch) review will bear witness not just why this is ane of the best laptops around, but a true return to form for the MacBook Pro. If yous're looking for a bigger screen, check out our 16-inch MacBook Pro review. And whichever yous determine to buy, take a look at our list of 9 MacBook Pro tips everyone needs to know.
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MacBook Pro 2021 (fourteen-inch) review: Price and release date
- Pricey out the gate at $i,999
- The xiii-inch MacBook Pro didn't get updated
This stings: the fourteen-inch MacBook Pro 2021 starts at $1,999. That's $200 more than the $one,799 MacBook Pro it replaces, though it adds a whole lot and so it's not a huge result.
That said, it's also $700 more than the xiii-inch MacBook Pro with M1, which went without an update this year. For your two Gs you lot get the M1 Pro arrangement-on-chip with an viii-core CPU (vi performance cores, 2 efficiency cores) and a 14-core GPU, 512GB of storage and 16GB of RAM.
The 14-inch MacBook Pro ships the week of October 25, 2021, alongside the MacBook Pro 16-inch (2021). Delays, though, are already piling upwards as need skyrockets.
We actually wish the lower-end thirteen-inch MacBook Pro had been updated along with these new models. That MacBook Pro is very like to the MacBook Air, and at that place is a $ane,000 gap betwixt the MacBook Air and the new 14-inch MacBook Pro.
Maybe the updated 13-inch MacBook Pro's M1 Pro bit wouldn't be as powerful. Or Apple could accept establish another concession. Either fashion, its USB-C-only ports situation, thicker bezels and other similarities to the MacBook Air with M1 make that xiii-inch model wait like less of a MacBook Pro and more like a thicker MacBook Air.
MacBook Pro 2021 (14-inch) review: Specs
| xiv-inch MacBook Pro 2021 | |
|---|---|
| Starting price | $1,999 |
| Screen | 14.two-inch Liquid Retina XDR display (3024x1964 pixels, 254ppi) |
| Processor | M1 Pro (8-core CPU, 14-core GPU or x-core CPU, xvi-core GPU), with optional M1 Max with up to ten-cadre CPU and 32-cadre GPU |
| Bombardment size | 70Wh |
| Battery life (claimed) | Upward to eleven hours of web surfing over Wi-Fi |
| Storage | 512GB to 8TB |
| Memory | 16GB to 64GB |
| Ports | Thunderbolt four (x3), HDMI, MagSafe 3, headphone jack, SD memory menu slot |
| Webcam | 1080p FaceTime HD photographic camera |
| Wi-Fi | 802.11ax Wi-Fi 6 |
| Bluetooth | Bluetooth 5.0 |
| Dimensions | 12.3 x 8.7 x 0.half dozen inches |
| Weight | 3.5 pounds |
The big story here is that the xiv-inch MacBook Pro tin can still be customized with the M1 Max bit also seen in the MacBook Pro 2021 (16-inch). Plus, you lot can upgrade to a super-high 64GB of RAM and up to 8TB of internal storage. Of class, it gets more expensive if you lot do.
MacBook Pro 2021 (14-inch) review: Design
- Thinner bezels go far with a notch in tow
- Lighter than Razer Blade 14 and heavier than XPS 13 OLED
The 14-inch MacBook Pro 2021 isn't simply a new size for Apple's high-end laptops, it's also a part of a new era. For years, the MacBook Pro got very small, and pretty ho-hum updates. This year? Nearly everything's different, as Apple'south thrown out the tapered lid for a flat summit, and even engraved "MacBook Pro" on the bottom.
More chiefly, though, Apple's shrunk (most) of the MacBook Pro'south bezels. Now, they measure a little more than 0.1 inches, downwards from the 0.five-inch (top) and 0.iii-inch (side) bezels of the terminal three years. The Dell XPS 13 with OLED has similarly small bezels, and for longer, equally its computers have had InfinityEdge display panels for years.
There is 1 exception, though: Apple gave the MacBook Pro a notch. Yes, the lilliputian blackness rectangular space for cameras in the iPhone made information technology to the top-heart of the MacBook Pro display. Information technology's 0.four inches tall, and it'due south impossible to miss, at first sight that is. I've already gotten used to information technology, and I'thousand more than accepting of information technology. The thinner bezels allow Apple tree to motility the Menu Bar to the freed up space, and the notch just drops down far enough to be in that card bar.
Unfortunately, the MacBook Pro notch had go a trouble for some. Tech enthusiast Quinn Nelson explained that he had bug with the iStat Menus utility when the Menu Bar options on the left and the icons on the right hitting a breaking point. Thankfully, the MacBook Pro 2021 notch fail could finally be getting stock-still via an Os update that will be bachelor to all customers soon.
The only other "new" alter is that the left and correct vents, for heat and sound, are larger than before. It's something I bet I'll get used to.
Look at the 14-inch MacBook Pro side by side with the 13-inch 2020 MacBook Pro, and tell me you'd have the latter, with its smaller screen and thicker bezels. Certain, no notch would be better, only information technology's a decent compromise.
Measuring 12.3 ten viii.vii x 0.half-dozen inches and weighing three.5 pounds, the 14.2-inch MacBook Pro is slightly larger and heavier than the 13-inch MacBook Pro with M1 (12 x 8.4 x 0.6 inches, 3 pounds). Interestingly, though, the fourteen-inch MacBook Pro is thinner, if you drill down to centimeters, where information technology's 1.55cm thick vs the one.56cm 13-inch MacBook Pro. But whose optics are going to perceive that?
The 13.four-inch Dell XPS xiii with OLED (eleven.6 10 7.8 x 0.5 inches, ii.8 pounds) is smaller and lighter, while the xiv-inch Razer Blade 14 (12.6 x 8.7 x 0.7 inches, 3.nine pounds) is larger and heavier. Unsurprisingly, the new MacBook Pro 2021 (16-inch) (14 x 9.viii ten 0.seven inches, four.7 pounds) is larger and heavier.
You may besides be considering the larger and heavier xiv.4-inch Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio (12.7 x 8.9 ten 0.7 inches, 3.viii - 4.0 pounds) and the Dell XPS 15 OLED 2021 (thirteen.half-dozen x 9.1 x 0.7 inches, 4.2 pounds), which have a little more than power.
We'll excuse the Surface Laptop Studio'south larger pattern, notwithstanding, as information technology's got an easel-like touchscreen brandish that you can pull towards you lot. Information technology'south the kind of feature that we'd beloved to come across Apple tree play with, though they'd need to have touchscreen laptops into their hearts first.
Apple sells the MacBook Pro 2021 in the aforementioned two colors they've sold MacBook Pros in for years: argent and Space Grayness. I'm picking the latter when I buy mine, though I'll merely run across that colour on the bottom one-half of the car, as I'1000 covering the lid in stickers I've nerveless while waiting for the final five years.
MacBook Pro 2021 (14-inch) review: Ports
- The return of the MagSafe charging port, HDMI and SD retentivity reader
- Still no USB-A port
This is more like it. The 14-inch MacBook Pro 2021 trades Apple tree's previous philosophy — essentially "USB-C dongles are good enough" — for well-nigh of the ports that people need. One, though, is still in absentia.
On the left side of the MacBook Pro, y'all find arguably the most welcome port to return to the MacBook Pro: the MagSafe charging port. Apple tree (and its fans) spent years extolling the laptop-saving virtues of this magnetically-attaching power jack, which simply pops out whenever a more-than-pocket-size corporeality of tension is applied. Previously, y'all could only charge the MacBook Pro via a USB-C cable, and those puppers could pull your laptop articulate off your table — and where/how they'd land, who knows?
Aslope that, you've got two Thunderbolt 4/USB4 reversible USB-C ports, and a headphone jack that's been upgraded to support high‑impedance headphones that demand more power.
On the correct side, you accept a third Thunderbolt 4 port and two more ports that pros basically demanded return to the Mac: HDMI-out and an SD card reader. These are crucial for anyone who extends their display or plugs in a camera memory card (respectively). I've long used a USB-C hub dongle for this on my work-issued MacBook Pro, and I've long wished I didn't have to.
The SD reader supports the UHS-II format, which is basically "OK." It's faster than UHS-I and slower than the height-of-the-line UHS-3. Though to become that difference y'all need to buy SD cards that support UHS-II or UHS-Three.
The xvi-inch MacBook Pro has the same ports, while the 13-inch MacBook Pro but has two Thunderbolt / USB iv ports and a headphone jack, making it a prime case of the input/output situation that pros were drastic to leave behind.
Both the Razer Blade fourteen and XPS 13 come close to the new MacBook Pro port assortment. Both have dual USB-C ports and a headphone jack, while the XPS 13 has a microSD reader and the Razer Bract 14 has a USB-A port and HDMI. Dell throws in a USB-C to USB-A adapter, which Apple tree should exist doing.
The XPS fifteen has 3 USB-C ports and a microSD reader (it also chucks in a USB-A adapter), while the Surface Laptop Studio has dual Thunderbolt 4/USB-C ports, a headphone jack and Surface Connect port.
A USB-A port would exist a welcome addition, especially as virtually people have at least one device that requires USB-A. I've got multiple: my Blue Yeti microphone, plus my wireless mouse and keyboard. Using these accessories on the go shouldn't require conveying an adapter with you.
Nevertheless not enough ports? Check out this new Plugable docking station that'due south great for multi-monitor setups.
MacBook Pro 2021 (14-inch) review: Brandish
- Plenty bright, with amazing contrast for HDR content
- ProMotion 120Hz refresh rate makes everything smoother
Everything just looks and so much brighter and better on the mini-LED Liquid Retina XDR display in the 14-inch MacBook Pro 2021. Watching my 4K HDR copies of Scott Pilgrim vs. the Globe, Mission: Impossible - Fallout and Jordan Peele'southward Us, I repeatedly felt like I was seeing things better than I had in a while. I noted stunning contrast betwixt the reds, blacks and whites in the final fight of Scott Pilgrim, too as in lighting and shadows of the bath ball in Mission: Incommunicable - Fallout and perfect beach tones in Us.
The other big feature in the MacBook Pro 2021 is its ProMotion 120Hz refresh-rate, which makes everything look smoother. This was seen non only in Tom Cruise and Henry Cavill'south fist-fight in Fallout, but also when text merely looked meliorate equally I scrolled in the Apple News app and Chrome. Non every app works properly with it even so though, simply 120Hz back up for Safari and other apps are on the way.
The 14-inch MacBook Pro'southward brandish produces 109.6% of the sRGB gamut (according to our colorimeter), which is within the margin of error of the score from the 16-inch MacBook Pro (109.3%). The Surface Laptop Studio (105.half-dozen%) hit a similar charge per unit, the 13-inch MacBook Pro (111.8%) got a pilus higher, as did the Razer Blade fourteen (111.three%). The 3.5K OLED panel in the Dell XPS 13 (117.three%) hit a slightly greater number, while the three.5K OLED XPS 15 panel (120.1%) is a notch higher up that.
The new MacBook Pros are super bright, with the 14-inch model emitting up to 487.8 nits according to our light gun (the 16-inch version reached a piffling college, to 500.6 nits). The Surface Laptop Studio (487.two nits) is similarly bright, while the 389-nit XPS 15, 439.iv-nit MacBook Pro 2020, the 357.v-nit XPS thirteen and the 332.4-nit Razer Blade 14 are dimmer.
Apple rates the new MacBooks as hitting peak brightnesses of up to 1,600 nits, but the highest nosotros could get it, when using tricks to endeavor and amp up the brightness, was 520 nits. All the same, this screen is amazing.
Be sure to read our guide on how to clean a MacBook screen to keep it looking its best.
MacBook Pro (14-inch, 2021) review: Performance
- M1 Pro arrangement-on-flake is blazing fast
- SSD storage is speedier than ever
"How much faster could the M1 Pro get, really?" I thought to myself. And then nosotros did the testing, and the fourteen-inch MacBook Pro (M1 Pro w/ 10-cadre CPU, 32GB RAM) blew the roof off the damn tests, like the Avengers lighting up Thanos from all angles. I've not even heard the fans ramp up equally I've opened dozens of tabs in Chrome (also while splitting the screen with the 1080p trailer for Spider-Man: No Mode Dwelling).
On the Geekbench 5 general operation criterion's multi-core test, the 14-inch MacBook Pro earned a whopping 12,477. The M1 Max-based 16-inch MacBook Pro (a 10-cadre CPU configuration, with 64GB of RAM) did a little ameliorate, at 12,683. Those scores practically walk right up to the 7,571 score from the M1 MacBook Pro 2020 (Apple M1, 8GB RAM) and shake it down for its lunch money.
Similarly, the scores of 7,471 from the Razer Blade xiv (AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX, 16GB RAM), 7,477 from the XPS 15 (Intel Core i7-11800H, 16GB RAM), 5,820 from the Surface Laptop Studio (Intel Core i7-11370H, 32GB RAM) and five,420 from the Dell XPS 13 with OLED (Intel Core i7-1185G7, 16GB RAM) now alive under the tall shadow of the M1 Pro and M1 Max scores.
Absolutely, these new Macs have a leg up on some of these, with more RAM.
The M1 Pro-based MacBook Pro 2021 similarly super-charged scores on our Handbrake video encoding examination, taking but 4 minutes and 51 seconds to transcode a 4K video to 1080p (the 16-inch MacBook Pro with M1 Max took iii seconds less time, at 4:48). Nosotros got closer times of vii:46 from the thirteen-inch 2020 MacBook Pro, vii:20 from the Razer Blade 14 and viii:10 from the Dell XPS 15, while nosotros saw much worse times of 11:24 from the Surface Laptop Studio and 18:12 from the XPS xiii.
Apple continues to find wins on storage, with its SSD blazing incredible read (5,322 MBps) and write (v,377 MBps) times on the Blackmagic Disk Speed Test. The sixteen-inch MacBook Pro (read: five,315 MBps, write: v,565 MBps) wasn't much faster.
These times (again) beat the 2020 MacBook Pro with M1 (read: 2,768 MBps, write: 2,406 MBps) and the one,051 MBps transfer charge per unit from the Surface Laptop Studio, while the transfer rates from the SSDs in the Razer Bract xiv (909 MBps), XPS 15 (826 MBps), XPS 13 (742 MBps) are stuck in triple digits.
And then in that location'south the affair of the PugetBench Photoshop test, where the M1 Pro turned in a score of 806 and a time of 4:54 (the 16-inch MacBook Pro edged it out at 877 and 4:44). Those times and scores (yous guessed it) beat out those of the 2020 MacBook Pro (577, 7:03) handily.
Looking for even more comparisons between the new MacBook Pros and the height PC workstations? We've compiled the MacBook Pro 2021 benchmarks, and pitted them confronting the likes of the Asus ProArt StudioBook 16 and HP ZBook Fury G8, too — for Geekbench 5.4, our Handbrake video transcoding test, PugetBench Photoshop, Sid Meier's Civilization VI and fifty-fifty on battery life. The new MacBooks accept 2 out of 3 rounds, can you guess which?
MacBook Pro (14-inch, 2021) review: Graphics and gaming
- M1 Max sits in M1 Pro's shadow
- Loftier-resolution gaming still leaves y'all wanting more
The 14-inch MacBook Pro nosotros tested features a sixteen-cadre GPU augmenting Apple'south new M1 Pro system-on-chip. And it'southward proving to be a animal, every bit I saw when I played Rise of the Tomb Raider, equally the wintry opening scene ran smoothly while snow and wind plagued Lara on a cliff.
Testing this out with a benchmark, the 14-inch MacBook Pro hit 39fps on Ascent of the Tomb Raider (at 1920 x 1200), while the xvi-inch model soared to a super-shine 73.87 fps. When we increased the resolution, the 14-inch (at 3024 x 1964) hit a choppy 17 fps while the 16-inch (at 3456 x 2234) still failed to get higher up 30 fps, at 27 fps.
The 14-inch MacBook Pro ran Sid Meier's Civilization Half-dozen: Gathering Tempest (at 1512x982) at 46 frames per second, a smoother rate than the 22 fps rate the XPS 13 (with Intel Iris Xe Graphics) had, though that ran at 1080p. The 16-inch MacBook Pro ran it (set to 1728 10 1080) at 46 fps. For context, 30 frames per second is playable, though we ever dearest to run across a college mark. The Nvidia RTX 3050 Ti GPUs in the Surface Laptop Studio (66 fps) and Dell XPS fifteen (67 fps) enabled smoothness that kicked everyone'south butt here.
The M1 Pro deficiencies confronting the M1 Max showed upwardly in the 3DMark Wild Life Extreme Unlimited test. There the M1 Pro'southward 16-cadre GPU earned a score of 10,386 at 62.17 frames per second, while the sixteen-inch MacBook Pro (32-core GPU M1 Max) earned a 20,220 score at 121 frames per second.
MacBook Pro 2021 (14-inch) review: Battery life
- fourteen-inch MacBook Pro lasts over fourteen hours on our test
- 6+ Hours longer than OLED XPS 13
The Apple Silicon era has been largely corking for the MacBook Pro, delivering much longer endurance than in years past. That continues here.
The 14-inch MacBook Pro delivered all-day performance, lasting 14 hours and ix minutes on the Tom's Guide web browsing-based battery test (set to 150 nits). For comparisons' sake, the Intel-based MacBook Pros — the 13-inch (x:21), fifteen-inch (also 10:21) and xvi-inch (x:55) — all came in at shorter times.
The first MacBook Pro with M1 (16:25) and the M1 Max 16-inch MacBook Pro (15:32) both lasted longer, while the Intel-based Dell XPS 13 with OLED (7:59), Dell XPS 15 with OLED (6:58) and AMD-based Razer Bract 14 (6:02) fared much worse. The Surface Laptop Studio (10:42) did ameliorate, just still didn't come up shut.
MacBook Pro (14-inch, 2021) review: Webcam
- Improved clarity in 1080p webcam
- Nigh competitors withal take 720p webcams
Unfortunately, online video conferencing is a new normal, and Apple's recognized that here. The fourteen-inch MacBook Pro (and its 16-inch sibling) have 1080 webcams, a spring up from the grainy 720p cams in the Dell XPS 13 and XPS fifteen, 2020 MacBook Pro and Razer Blade 14 (kudos to Microsoft for putting a 1080p webcam in the Surface Laptop Studio).
You'll run into video I shot on both cameras in my review video above, and here's a comparing betwixt selfies shot on the new 14-inch MacBook Pro's webcam and the 720p camera in the Intel-based 2020 MacBook Pro.
I don't fifty-fifty need to tell y'all which is which. The left selfie is then much brighter and clearer, with more than of my hair visible for starters (on the right, a lot of detail is lost in black sections). My pare is also much clearer on the left, as are my articulate glasses.
It's great that Apple decided to make this change, every bit we still alive in a world filled with remote-work experiences, where calls on Google Run across, Zoom, Skype and Teams have replaced meetings.
MacBook Pro (fourteen-inch, 2021) review: Keyboard and touchpad
- Splendid and comfy typing experience
- The Touch Bar is gone, and we're set up to throw a party
The Magic Keyboard in the 14-inch MacBook Pro 2021 is comfortable and enables speedy typing. Its keys provide a decent corporeality of concrete feedback, and testing it out on the 10fastfingers typing test, I click-clacked my way to 77 words per minute (with a 96% accurateness charge per unit), near my 80 wpm external keyboard average. I also noted that its 5.one 10 iii.1-inch glass Strength Touch trackpad is accurate and provides smooth scrolling.
There's more to the new MacBook Pro'southward keyboard than simply the typing experience, though. Apple's made other meaning changes that have us exclaiming "out with the new and in with the old!" Yes, in 2021, we're jubilant physical keys on a keyboard. Not just has Apple stuck with the Magic Keyboard mechanism pattern it introduced in 2019 and 2020 (which replaced the notoriously unreliable and course activeness-lawsuit inspiring Butterfly keyboard), but they too threw out some other relatively-recent 'innovation.'
The Touch Bar, a thin OLED touchscreen (the but kind Apple'south put in a laptop), was introduced in 2016. It had 'software buttons' that would announced in tandem with specific apps. Getting a phone call? You could start or hang up with the Affect Bar. Desire to ship an emoji? The Touch Bar had you covered.
Merely the Touch Bar never truly justified its existence, and Apple replaced it in these new MacBook Pros. In its place, we have a row of full-height Function keys (F1-F12, the effulgence, multimedia and other shortcut keys), an escape fundamental and a power push button that features Touch on ID biometric security for confirming your identity in gild to unlock the system, open a countersign manager or use ApplePay.
This alter is more than welcome if you ask me, as I frequently constitute my fingers accidentally actuating the Touch Bar by just grazing its surface.
MacBook Pro 2021 (14-inch) review: Audio
- Vi-speaker setup impresses
- Improved sound quality in microphones
Apple's sound engineers go along to practice marvelous piece of work, at present packing a strong and sweet-sounding six-speaker array into the fourteen-inch MacBook Pro 2021. When I turned on Frank Body of water's moody unmarried "Swim Good," I couldn't stop myself from bobbing along to the thumping bass.
The trio of congenital-in microphones accept been improved for college audio quality, something I saw for myself when recording videos in Quicktime.
MacBook Pro 2021 (14-inch) review: Heat
- Gets slightly warm
- But doesn't become also hot
Equally I've tested the new MacBook Pro, I've noticed it get a fiddling warm at most, goose egg to even remark nigh. Afterward nosotros streamed 15 minutes of Full Hd video on it, our heat gun picked up temperatures below 95 degrees Fahrenheit on its touchpad (85 degrees), keyboard and underside (both 89.v degrees).
MacBook Pro 2021 (xiv-inch) review: Software and apps
- macOS 12 is stable, simply appear features have been delayed
- Live Text is the coolest software characteristic Apple'due south fabricated in years
macOS Monterey, aka macOS 12, is the latest version of Apple's desktop operating system, and as someone who's been testing it on an M1 MacBook Air and a 2020 Intel MacBook Pro since the betas came out, I can say I'one thousand fairly enamored with information technology. Apple's had to delay ii marquee features — SharePlay and Universal Control — by the full final launch of Monterey, but it's still good.
Get-go off, I've frequently had to remind myself that this is, in fact, a beta. That'south how stable this release is (though your mileage may vary, depending on your favorite apps). Without those two major features, Apple's admittedly got fewer big reasons to make y'all download it. Just, that said, LiveText — which lets you select and copy text in images — is truly amazing, and something that I truly believe would make people desire to download it ASAP. Every bit you can meet with this set-list I got from a recent concert, Live Text makes information technology easy for me to consign that text on that sheet, saving me the time of typing information technology out myself.
Equally much as I love macOS, though, you may exist forced to spend $99 on this app if you desire to live stream on your Mac. And of class, downloading some of the other best Mac apps will further enhance your feel.
MacBook Pro 2021 (14-inch) review: Verdict
I've been waiting for this MacBook Pro 2021 (14-inch) review for a very long time. I concluding bought a Mac in 2012, when the first Retina Display MacBook Pro arrived. And and then I didn't need a MacBook until around 2016 and 2017, correct when Apple switched to a controversial keyboard that felt as well shallow, took away MagSafe and those valuable ports.
So, I made my 2012 MacBook Pro stretch. But it's barely been able to hold much of a battery charge, the performance has slowed significantly, and Apple's new Bone updates oasis't supported it. I started to wonder what operating organisation my next estimator would run, even considering Windows machines. But then the Butterfly keyboard switch went extinct, news of the returning ports leaked and rumors of the Bear upon Bar's demise spread. And I got very excited, even moreso as Apple delivered the goods. Seemingly, Apple listened to years of pro user complaints, because this is the laptop that we've been asking for.
On top of that, the fourteen-inch MacBook Pro 2021 features astonishing functioning from the super-fast M1 Pro (or the faster M1 Max if you pay more), a gorgeous Liquid Retina XDR display that'south both vivid and speedy, and the thinner bezels it's long needed.
You could take similarly thin bezels with the Dell XPS xiii with OLED, and they'd cost you a lot less. An XPS 13 with similar specs as the MacBook Pro we tested is more than $800 less (at $two,069), but its battery life is far shorter, it isn't as fast and its display isn't as brilliant; check out our MacBook Pro 14-inch vs Dell XPS 13 face-off for a full comparison betwixt the two.
Want the great graphics performance for gaming? The Surface Laptop Studio is similarly priced, but yous'll lose battery life and general functioning when compared to the xiv-inch MacBook Pro, while the XPS fifteen we tested is near $400 less, but a scrap heavier and has much less endurance on a single accuse.
Y'all could stay in the Mac world, and save $700 and get longer bombardment life with the 13-inch MacBook Pro, but yous probably won't want to if you ever run across the thinner bezels of the 2021 MacBook Pros.
We'd love to see a MacBook Pro with these ports at a more affordable cost, but that's not in the cards correct now. Perchance in 2022, Apple will update that spot in its lineup. The MacBook Air 2022, for example, is expected to get MagSafe. All that said, the new 14-inch MacBook Pro is pretty much exactly the laptop that many have waited for, and even dreamed of. With a notch on superlative.
Source: https://www.tomsguide.com/reviews/macbook-pro-2021-14-inch
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