With a new chip and a handful of quality of life improvements, the M4 MacBook Pro has reached new heights.
Apple Mac Book Pro M4 MSRP $3,649.00 Score Details “With the M4, the Mac Book Pro has never been better.” Pros Cons The M4 chip comes at an important time. The competition from Qualcomm, Intel, and AMD has never been stronger on the Windows side, coming to disrupt Apple’s comfortable lead in the past few years.
While the starting prices of the MacBook Pro are reasonable, adding storage gets out of hand quickly. It costs $600 to get 2TB of storage, and the prices get astronomical from there on out. It’s another $600 for 4TB, and at that point, you’re paying over $4,000 for your laptop. Just to put things in perspective, you can buy the Asus ProArt P16 with an RTX 4070 with 32GB of RAM and 2TB of storage for $2,300.
It goes without saying that regardless of which size you choose, you’re getting a keyboard that’s large, comfortable, and precise. It’s among the best laptop keyboards you’ll type on — and that goes for the trackpad too. I continue to appreciate the full-size function keys and the smooth glass surface of the trackpad. Double-clicks are smooth and not too loud, something some other haptic feedback trackpads struggle with.
There are no upgrades to wireless connectivity with the M4. For future-proofing purposes, it’s too bad we didn’t get the bump to Wi-Fi 7, but Wi-Fi 6E here is certainly still current, as is Bluetooth 5.3. Like the iPad Pro, however, the MacBook Pro screen does now go up to 1,000 nits of brightness in SDR. The catch is that you’ll need to turn on adaptive brightness in settings to reach that maximum. When tested with that setting off, I measured max brightness of 585 nits, which is still brighter than many OLED laptop screens.
It’s not only about more pixels though. Apple has two tricks up its sleeve when it comes to the camera: Desk View and Center Stage. Both are neat additions, if a little gimmicky. Center Stage keeps you centered in the frame, which can be helpful during presentations. The 14-core part has eight Performance cores and six Efficiency cores, but that arrangement hasn’t changed in this generation. Instead, it’s all about pushing those cores as hard as they can go, resulting in the fastest single-core score in Cinebench R24 and Geekbench 6 I’ve ever seen. And it’s not even close. Its score of 179 is 18% higher than the the M3 Max and 29% higher than the fastest Core Ultra 7 258V in our database, the Asus Zenbook S 14.
Part of the story with the M4 is also the AI performance. Apple Intelligence launches in earnest on these laptops, and Apple says its new Neural Engine is twice as fast as in the previous generation. As tested in Geekbench AI, that’s exactly what I saw. So, what’s all that GPU performance good for? Well, certainly not web browsing and word processing. But as it turns out, the M4 Pro MacBook Pro is a pretty great gaming device, so long as you can find something to play. I loaded up Baldur’s Gate 3, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Rocket League, and Myst.
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