Apple MacBook Pro (16 Inch, 2024) Review: More Power

Then there's the show notch, wherever the webcam sits astatine the apical of the screen. It's inactive an eyesore—and during my testing, it covered up dialog boxes much than once. Also, the MacBook Pro instrumentality has ever been highly large nether load, and it’s conscionable arsenic noisy today, and the powerfulness ceramic is inactive white, adjacent if your laptop is Space Black.

These aren't caller concerns, and they're each insignificant complaints adjacent to a fresh, weightier concern: At 4.7 pounds, the MacBook Pro M4 feels precise heavy—and definite enough, it’s a afloat half-pound heavier than the M3 Max version I reviewed precisely a twelvemonth ago. However, inexplicably, it is inactive 19 millimeters thick. Where has that other fractional a lb gone? Must beryllium the tantalizing interior upgrades that are going to stroke our minds, right?

Power Boost

The evident upgrade is Apple’s caller M4 Pro CPU, which is the mid-level offering betwixt the modular M4 and M4 Max, not including a rumored M4 Ultra successful 2025. The caller features connected the M4 silicon are excessively galore and excessively nerdy to database here, but the abbreviated of it is that you’re getting much cores connected some CPU (14 connected this configuration) and GPU (20), and (also arsenic configured here) 48 GB of unified memory, which is designed to velocity up everything from video processing to DNA sequencing, if that happens to beryllium your hobby.

Naturally, there’s the amply hyped, upgraded Neural Engine, present astatine 16 cores, designed to powerfulness on-device AI workloads (and the caller Apple Intelligence) astatine 3 times the velocity of the M1. My tested configuration besides added a 2-terabyte solid-state drive, truthful this rig is astir arsenic loaded arsenic it gets.

Aside from the motherboard, determination are caller features that whitethorn beryllium much instantly visible—three to beryllium exact. First, the USB ports enactment Thunderbolt 5 (120 Gbps/sec) for faster information transportation speeds. A caller 12-MP webcam features “Desk View,” which lets you stock a livestream of your table portion you’re screen-sharing. Lastly, there’s a “nano-texture” surface upgrade option, which is Applespeak for its glare simplification exertion that debuted connected the Studio Display. I person the diagnostic connected my trial machine, and if thing other successful the MacBook Pro M4 gets you excited, this should. It makes the surface consciousness similar you’re looking astatine a photograph. (The upgrade volition outgo you $150.)