The MacBook Pro 13-inch is the first device to pack Apple’s brand-new M2 chip. While the company was careful to make it clear that the M1 Pro and M1 Max chips will still have the performance advantage, mainly down to their additional cores, the M2 represents a decent bump over the standard M1.
In our tests, the M2 achieved better performance in both single and multi-core CPU tests, offering a noticeable uplift when it came to multitasking, with various applications open at once.as much as the Surface Laptop 4 running with Intel’s high-end, and still relatively recent, Intel Core i7-1185G7.
The video processing chops of the new MacBook Pro 13-inch remain impressive, with it easily handling multiple 8K video streams at once. The previous model was also adept at this, and unless you’re doing very intensive workloads, you may not see a huge difference if you’re upgrading from the M1 model.
While big name games supporting these features, such as No Man’s Sky and Resident Evil Village, won’t be coming until later, there’s still a growing number of games that run on macOS. We did try out a few games on it, however. Shadow of the Tomb Raider remains a graphically-impressive title, but at the highest settings, the MacBook Pro 13-inch managed an average of 29fps . This is perfectly playable, and offers a similar level of performance than the last-gen Xbox One and PS4 consoles.
The MacBook Pro 13-inch we were given to review came with 16GB of memory, so we weren't able to test out how much of an impact 24GB makes, but it should be noticeable for intensive projects. For most people, 16GB should be plenty, while the 8GB configuration feels a little too low these days. MacBooks remain impossible for a user to upgrade the components themselves, so you’re stuck with the configuration you buy.
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