The Evolution of MacBook Pros: A New Era of Power and Innovation

One of the most significant changes in the new MacBook Pro lineup is the upgrade to 1080 camera technology, which provides a much improved image quality compared to the standard laptop webcam. The higher resolution cameras on certain models, such as the Surface Pro and some Mac devices like the 24-inch and 27-inch iMacs, are a notable feature that sets them apart from previous MacBook Pros. This advancement is likely to be one of the favorite features among users who value high-quality video conferencing experiences.

The new MacBook Pro also boasts a stunning mini LED screen, similar to the technology used in the latest iPad Pro models. This significant improvement in display quality will undoubtedly enhance the overall user experience and provide a more immersive environment for creative professionals. In contrast to previous MacBook Pros, which may not have looked as impressive on this screen, the updated model will showcase its capabilities with greater clarity.

The new MacBook Pro lineup is built around two powerful chips: the M1 Pro and the M1 Max. The M1 Pro and M1 Max differ in terms of graphics processing power, with the M1 Max having 32 graphics cores compared to the 16 graphics cores found in the M1 Pro. For users who require high-end graphics capabilities for tasks such as video editing, 3D modeling, and game development, these new chips are a significant improvement over previous models. However, it's essential to note that Apple did not explicitly mention gaming as a feature of the new MacBook Pro, suggesting that its primary focus is on professional applications.

Despite initial concerns about software compatibility and emulation issues, users who have transitioned from earlier M1-based systems report a seamless experience. The switchover to the M1 Pro and M1 Max has been transparent, allowing professionals to continue using their existing workflows without significant disruption. While there are still some programs that may require optimization for optimal performance on these new chips, many popular applications like Adobe Creative Cloud and Apple's own Logic Pro and Final Cut Pro are well-suited for the M1 Pro and M1 Max.

The M1 series is also highlighted as a power-efficient option, with the M1 Air and Pro models delivering impressive battery life. Apple promises up to 21 hours of usage on the 16-inch model and 17 hours on the 14-inch model, which surpasses previous estimates. The larger 16-inch model will benefit from this increased battery capacity due to its size, allowing it to last longer during typical user sessions.

The new MacBook Pro lineup is now available for pre-order, with shipping scheduled to begin on October 26th. The base price of the 14-inch model starts at $1,299, while the 16-inch model begins at $1,599. These prices position the new MacBook Pro as a premium offering, aligning with the expectations of professional users who require high-performance hardware for their demanding workloads.

Overall, the new MacBook Pro lineup represents a significant leap forward in terms of power, innovation, and user experience. With its improved cameras, stunning mini LED screens, powerful M1 Pro and M1 Max chips, and impressive battery life, these laptops are poised to meet the demands of creative professionals and other heavy users who require top-notch performance from their devices.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: ennow we've got new macbook pros and 14-inch and 16-inch models new chips inside the real question is are these new macbook pros pro enough there is a ton that is new about these new macbook pros but it took us a long time to get here what we've got now is a 14-inch macbook pro and a 16-inch macbook pro we've had a 16-inch size for a couple years now that came up from the 15-inch size now we have a 14 that is basically replacing the traditional 13 inch macbook pro although you can still get the more entry-level 13-inch macbook pro and that takes us back to the last year when apple first introduced the m1 chips in a bunch of macs they did the 13-inch macbook air they did the 13-inch macbook pro and they did the mac mini now the problem was the chip in these systems was so similar there were there were a couple of tiny differences the pro and had 8gb cores versus seven for the base air but other than that they were the same whether you were buying a mac mini for seven hundred dollars a macbook air for 9.99 or a macbook pro for 12.99 and there was not a ton of performance difference between them it was kind of hard to justify getting that 13 inch macbook pro when the 999a was great and frankly had the fingerprint reader that they took out of the touch bar and it also gave you regular function keys instead of again that touch bar which has been in macbook pros for many years now well that's one thing you're not going to see in the new 14 inch and 16 inch macbook pros without a lot of fanfare that has been removed and frankly a lot of people have said if apple loses the touch bar nobody's gonna mind and i think that's probably true there were a couple of good things about it i always liked adjusting my volume and brightness just using a sliding scale to do that rather than pressing the brightness up and down and the volume up and down buttons and of course the fingerprint reader was fantastic but apple has now broken that out and on things like the macbook air and the new 24 inch imac keyboards you just get the fingerprint reader you don't have to deal with the rest of the touch bar so i don't think anyone is going to shed a tier for the end of the touch bar era but if you really do miss the touch bar you can still get that 13-inch macbook pro that has the touch bar it's a bit of a throwback frankly feels much less pro than these new models also interestingly looking at the specs on paper the 14 inch macbook pro weighs a full half pound more than the 13 inch it's not a lot but it's not peanuts either when you talk about mac updates sometimes you're talking about external updates and sometimes you're talking about internal updates some years the internal updates are so extensive you basically have a brand new machine on the inside but no change on the outside that frankly was the case for many many years with a lot of apple products this case with the new 14 inch pro and 16 inch pro you have internal changes and you have external changes for regular mainstream consumer types like you and i frankly those external changes are what you're going to see first and may be more practical and more important to you i think the number one thing is apple is adding back some of the ports that we've lost over the years now macbooks used to have an hdmi port although before that they didn't have an hdmi port and we thought they would never add it and i would write story saying it would be great if apple added this and they did and then they took it out again well now it's back again the same thing about the sd card slot and i've been using sd cards a lot more lately just because the nintendo switch uses them and some of the 3d printers i test use them so uh suddenly i'm i'm up to my elbows and sd cards and micro sd cards so nice to have that reader back there and of course you get a mag safe power connection which again is something that the macbooks used to have then took away and now they're adding back it's almost as if apple is doing kind of the greatest hits run down memory lane and cherry picking the things that people like the most about previous maps and cramming them all into these new systems now i have said a couple of times that bringing back magsafe has advantages but also has disadvantages and some people have said i'm just being too cranky about it but i'll tell you why because having usb-c is the main charging port on your macbook makes it so universal because you can use the same charger on your macbook air on your 13-inch macbook pro i think on your ipad pro on your nintendo switch on just about any dell xps 13 or lenovo yoga laptop you're likely to run to anything short of a gaming laptop these days basically has that universal usbc power connection so when somebody is in a coffee shop or an office or anywhere and goes does anybody have a macbook cable you know they're talking about a usbc cable and you can use an apple one you can use another branded one it's pretty universal and pretty interchangeable with the new macbook pros you can still charge through usbc but now you've got magsafe as well so when somebody says you know hey can i borrow your cable maybe they have a usbc one maybe they have a mac safe one it's just not gonna be as universal it's not the end of the world uh but i i like non-proprietary connections versus proprietary ones all things being equal another thing you're going to notice the screens take up more of that top panel so thinner bezels in fact now they have the notch cut out for the webcam whereas before it was just you know built into the top of the lid the notch of course we've seen it before on the iphone now it's coming to the macbook but it does not add face id which you might think if you saw it however it's gone up from a 720 resolution camera to a 1080 which frankly is the probably the single most important thing here we spend a lot of our time in web meetings and zoom meetings and other kinds of video conferences and macbook webcams generally look terrible most laptop webcams look terrible a few of them have moved up to 1080 cameras like the surface pro some mac devices have 1080 webcams like the 24 inch and 27 inch imac and using them compared to the regular macbook cameras it's a huge difference so the 1080 camera is going to be one of your favorite features about these new products and of course that's coupled with the mini led screen which is the same screen technology that's in that really awesome ipad pro macbook screens before this did not look terrible but they're going to look even better now inside that's where they're really selling the pro part of the macbook pro you've got new versions of the m1 chip they didn't call the m2 they didn't call the m1x it's the m1 pro and the m1 max now the max is higher than the pro and the pro is higher than the regular m1 for a lot of people the main difference is going to be the number of graphics cores available basically how much it can do in terms of graphics processing what you would usually have a discrete gpu for something from nvidia or something from amd and previous imacs and macbook pros and mac pros had a variety of amd discrete graphics options now it's all bundled in with the m1 pro and the m1 max it's hard to compare them apples to apples until we actually get some of these and run some tests on them but generally the m1 pro has 16 graphics cores the m1 max is 32 the regular m1 has either seven or eight graphics cords depending on which specific model of laptop you get and that is really what has kept a lot of the really pro pro users people do a lot of high-end photoshop and video editing and 3d model creation and game programming that's kept them away from the original m1 macbook pro from last year because it just didn't have the graphics horsepower they needed and some people felt you know apple was not taking care of that audience yet so this is the attempt to take care of that audience and to get people who would easily spend three thousand four thousand five thousand ten thousand dollars on a system to feel like they can buy one of these new macbook pros uh and they can they can use it professionally now are these gonna make macbook pros into gaming machines probably not apple literally did not mention gaming once i think in their macbook pro presentation they just did i'm talking to a couple of game developers and game publishers about whether they feel the new graphics power built into these pros will help them move more into mac gaming but it remains a pretty dead platform for gaming over the past year since we first started using m1 max the macbook air the macbook pro the mac mini the initial concern was that there was going to be uh issues with software compatibility software emulation things not working right i found that using an air and a pro almost daily for just about a year now the switchover was actually very very transparent which is really the best thing that you can say to someone in a situation like this you don't want to really notice the new operating system you don't want to really notice the new cpu you just want it to work so i had no problem doing photoshop premiere all kinds of stuff on regular m1 systems and i'm sure the same thing is going to be true the m1 pro and the m1 max systems which again i have not seen or used in person yet there are a handful of programs that that audience really needs and needs to work well a lot of the adobe stuff some of apple's own stuff like logic pro and like final cut some 3d programs you know once you get those nailed down i think the pro audience is going to come along apple of course also pushes the idea that the m1 series is very power efficient uh the m1 air and pro had very good battery life apple is promising 21 hours on the 16 inch i think 17 hours on the 14 inch that compares to about 20 hours they promised on the 13 inch m1 pro from last year obviously in our everyday use it doesn't run quite that long i think about 10 11 12 hours usually depending on what you're doing but that's still a lot more than they were even a couple of years ago and the 16 inch is going to be able to run longer just because it's a bigger body and has room for a bigger battery the new macbook pro models are available to pre-order now they're going to start shipping october 26th the 14-inch starts at 19.99 the 16-inch starts at 24.99now we've got new macbook pros and 14-inch and 16-inch models new chips inside the real question is are these new macbook pros pro enough there is a ton that is new about these new macbook pros but it took us a long time to get here what we've got now is a 14-inch macbook pro and a 16-inch macbook pro we've had a 16-inch size for a couple years now that came up from the 15-inch size now we have a 14 that is basically replacing the traditional 13 inch macbook pro although you can still get the more entry-level 13-inch macbook pro and that takes us back to the last year when apple first introduced the m1 chips in a bunch of macs they did the 13-inch macbook air they did the 13-inch macbook pro and they did the mac mini now the problem was the chip in these systems was so similar there were there were a couple of tiny differences the pro and had 8gb cores versus seven for the base air but other than that they were the same whether you were buying a mac mini for seven hundred dollars a macbook air for 9.99 or a macbook pro for 12.99 and there was not a ton of performance difference between them it was kind of hard to justify getting that 13 inch macbook pro when the 999a was great and frankly had the fingerprint reader that they took out of the touch bar and it also gave you regular function keys instead of again that touch bar which has been in macbook pros for many years now well that's one thing you're not going to see in the new 14 inch and 16 inch macbook pros without a lot of fanfare that has been removed and frankly a lot of people have said if apple loses the touch bar nobody's gonna mind and i think that's probably true there were a couple of good things about it i always liked adjusting my volume and brightness just using a sliding scale to do that rather than pressing the brightness up and down and the volume up and down buttons and of course the fingerprint reader was fantastic but apple has now broken that out and on things like the macbook air and the new 24 inch imac keyboards you just get the fingerprint reader you don't have to deal with the rest of the touch bar so i don't think anyone is going to shed a tier for the end of the touch bar era but if you really do miss the touch bar you can still get that 13-inch macbook pro that has the touch bar it's a bit of a throwback frankly feels much less pro than these new models also interestingly looking at the specs on paper the 14 inch macbook pro weighs a full half pound more than the 13 inch it's not a lot but it's not peanuts either when you talk about mac updates sometimes you're talking about external updates and sometimes you're talking about internal updates some years the internal updates are so extensive you basically have a brand new machine on the inside but no change on the outside that frankly was the case for many many years with a lot of apple products this case with the new 14 inch pro and 16 inch pro you have internal changes and you have external changes for regular mainstream consumer types like you and i frankly those external changes are what you're going to see first and may be more practical and more important to you i think the number one thing is apple is adding back some of the ports that we've lost over the years now macbooks used to have an hdmi port although before that they didn't have an hdmi port and we thought they would never add it and i would write story saying it would be great if apple added this and they did and then they took it out again well now it's back again the same thing about the sd card slot and i've been using sd cards a lot more lately just because the nintendo switch uses them and some of the 3d printers i test use them so uh suddenly i'm i'm up to my elbows and sd cards and micro sd cards so nice to have that reader back there and of course you get a mag safe power connection which again is something that the macbooks used to have then took away and now they're adding back it's almost as if apple is doing kind of the greatest hits run down memory lane and cherry picking the things that people like the most about previous maps and cramming them all into these new systems now i have said a couple of times that bringing back magsafe has advantages but also has disadvantages and some people have said i'm just being too cranky about it but i'll tell you why because having usb-c is the main charging port on your macbook makes it so universal because you can use the same charger on your macbook air on your 13-inch macbook pro i think on your ipad pro on your nintendo switch on just about any dell xps 13 or lenovo yoga laptop you're likely to run to anything short of a gaming laptop these days basically has that universal usbc power connection so when somebody is in a coffee shop or an office or anywhere and goes does anybody have a macbook cable you know they're talking about a usbc cable and you can use an apple one you can use another branded one it's pretty universal and pretty interchangeable with the new macbook pros you can still charge through usbc but now you've got magsafe as well so when somebody says you know hey can i borrow your cable maybe they have a usbc one maybe they have a mac safe one it's just not gonna be as universal it's not the end of the world uh but i i like non-proprietary connections versus proprietary ones all things being equal another thing you're going to notice the screens take up more of that top panel so thinner bezels in fact now they have the notch cut out for the webcam whereas before it was just you know built into the top of the lid the notch of course we've seen it before on the iphone now it's coming to the macbook but it does not add face id which you might think if you saw it however it's gone up from a 720 resolution camera to a 1080 which frankly is the probably the single most important thing here we spend a lot of our time in web meetings and zoom meetings and other kinds of video conferences and macbook webcams generally look terrible most laptop webcams look terrible a few of them have moved up to 1080 cameras like the surface pro some mac devices have 1080 webcams like the 24 inch and 27 inch imac and using them compared to the regular macbook cameras it's a huge difference so the 1080 camera is going to be one of your favorite features about these new products and of course that's coupled with the mini led screen which is the same screen technology that's in that really awesome ipad pro macbook screens before this did not look terrible but they're going to look even better now inside that's where they're really selling the pro part of the macbook pro you've got new versions of the m1 chip they didn't call the m2 they didn't call the m1x it's the m1 pro and the m1 max now the max is higher than the pro and the pro is higher than the regular m1 for a lot of people the main difference is going to be the number of graphics cores available basically how much it can do in terms of graphics processing what you would usually have a discrete gpu for something from nvidia or something from amd and previous imacs and macbook pros and mac pros had a variety of amd discrete graphics options now it's all bundled in with the m1 pro and the m1 max it's hard to compare them apples to apples until we actually get some of these and run some tests on them but generally the m1 pro has 16 graphics cores the m1 max is 32 the regular m1 has either seven or eight graphics cords depending on which specific model of laptop you get and that is really what has kept a lot of the really pro pro users people do a lot of high-end photoshop and video editing and 3d model creation and game programming that's kept them away from the original m1 macbook pro from last year because it just didn't have the graphics horsepower they needed and some people felt you know apple was not taking care of that audience yet so this is the attempt to take care of that audience and to get people who would easily spend three thousand four thousand five thousand ten thousand dollars on a system to feel like they can buy one of these new macbook pros uh and they can they can use it professionally now are these gonna make macbook pros into gaming machines probably not apple literally did not mention gaming once i think in their macbook pro presentation they just did i'm talking to a couple of game developers and game publishers about whether they feel the new graphics power built into these pros will help them move more into mac gaming but it remains a pretty dead platform for gaming over the past year since we first started using m1 max the macbook air the macbook pro the mac mini the initial concern was that there was going to be uh issues with software compatibility software emulation things not working right i found that using an air and a pro almost daily for just about a year now the switchover was actually very very transparent which is really the best thing that you can say to someone in a situation like this you don't want to really notice the new operating system you don't want to really notice the new cpu you just want it to work so i had no problem doing photoshop premiere all kinds of stuff on regular m1 systems and i'm sure the same thing is going to be true the m1 pro and the m1 max systems which again i have not seen or used in person yet there are a handful of programs that that audience really needs and needs to work well a lot of the adobe stuff some of apple's own stuff like logic pro and like final cut some 3d programs you know once you get those nailed down i think the pro audience is going to come along apple of course also pushes the idea that the m1 series is very power efficient uh the m1 air and pro had very good battery life apple is promising 21 hours on the 16 inch i think 17 hours on the 14 inch that compares to about 20 hours they promised on the 13 inch m1 pro from last year obviously in our everyday use it doesn't run quite that long i think about 10 11 12 hours usually depending on what you're doing but that's still a lot more than they were even a couple of years ago and the 16 inch is going to be able to run longer just because it's a bigger body and has room for a bigger battery the new macbook pro models are available to pre-order now they're going to start shipping october 26th the 14-inch starts at 19.99 the 16-inch starts at 24.99\n"