APPLE MACBOOK PRO (2021) 14.2" APPLE M1 PRO 10-CORE / 16GB RAM / 1TB SSD

Devin Johns

25.05.2022

Amazing performance and battery life

I was hesitant to upgrade from the 2019 MacBook Pro 16" because I loved that model so much, but I was given a stiped to buy a new laptop for my new job and thought this would be an awesome choice. I wasn't disappointed! The battery life is phenomenal, most likely due to the M1 Pro chip being so efficient. I haven't done many graphics tests (or even CPU benchmarking), but it can multitask so efficiently with the Unified memory - I really thought I'd need 32GB because I always have 3 Chrome sessions open each with a dozen or more tabs, plus Firefox, Sonos, Spotify, Calendar, Slack, and sometimes Discord, but it's been able to handle all of that flawlessly. The only stuttering is when switching between full screen apps but I'm running a 4K and 1440p monitors externally, so it's probably pushing it pretty hard. Overall this laptop is a workhorse and I love the build quality and battery life the most. I miss the touch bar but the physical keys on top are nice to have.

Andrzej_K

02.12.2021

SDR brightness is not limited to 500 nits at all. You can create custom preset and limit it to any higher values (up to 1000 nits for full screen). Then you have a dedicated preset for eg. very bright environment and can always switch to it. Only downside is that brightness will be locked to chosen value. Eg. 800 nits makes screen crazy bright.

JackMiles

15.11.2021

In addition to selecting battery "low power mode" please set display profile to "500 nit" one, not "1600 default". Actually, this should make it consume the less possible power as it can. It would be very interesting to see how results differs. I wonder, can it reach same time as macbook air m1 for playing video / wifi browsing test or not.

JackMiles

14.11.2021

Is it possible to make battery runtime test again with "low power mode" battery option enabled?

papasmiles

14.11.2021

I appreciate the discussion around screen brightness and outdoor use. My primary reason to buy would be the ability to get to 1,000 nits on productivity software such as Word, PowerPoint, etc. Can anyone answer whether these applications would be at the higher brightness or limited to 500 nits. Thank you in advance.

Muhammad Anhar

10.11.2021

Quote from: Canbe on November 08, 2021, 12:30:10 Quote from: Canbe on November 08, 2021, 12:30:10 Most 15" and above Windows laptop has removable RAM and SSD. MacBook Pro from 2013 until now has always RAM soldered in.

_MT_

09.11.2021

Quote from: NikoB on November 07, 2021, 18:08:15 Quote from: NikoB on November 07, 2021, 18:08:15 USB 4 has DP 2.0 alternate mode. And the same should be true for TB 4. I have no use for it but I've assumed it's the case for all laptops with USB 4. AFAIK it's not optional for computers. Marketing it as USB 4 without supporting mandatory features would surely be in breach of licensing terms. I'm disappointed by the measured battery life. Relative to the M1 MBP 13. How is that possible? I struggle to believe it's the processor. It might be less frugal but by this much? I suspect it might be the display. Really, I would prefer a proper low-power display and none of this mini LED nonsense. It doesn't really benefit me in what I do and the way it works creates problems. If you have two zones with different levels of back light, then setting pixels to the same value will result in different outcomes. Because you're blocking a certain portion of the light and if the backlight differs, the outcome differs. You can try compensating for it but one thing you can't compensate is the black. That is if you want to be able to switch off black zones. The only thing that can help you there is a panel that has exceptional contrast even without these tricks. That can have a deep black even at full brightness. Then, zones could be used as a power-saving measure rather than contrast-enhancing one. The so called halo shows you the real contrast of the panel rather than the imaginary one (i.e. how well it blocks backlight). And the zoning makes it stick out like a sore thumb.

Canbe

08.11.2021

yes, 16gb laptop for 2021 is a toy for blonds. but let's not forget that there is version 64gb in macbook pro and most windows laptops sad to say have 16gb LP memory with not upgradable. Yes in 2021 it's really shame because almost the same am people can use in phones, tablets... Browsers can take minimum 10-50gb of memory. Standalone application chrome based like ssk, wwhatsa, sla, and a lot of others for one instance use ~ 1.2gb memory. ffigma sometimes can use 4gb on one tab. How it's possible to work with 8,16gb ram? How about emulators, VM, containers?

Canbe

08.11.2021

but when we come to win|lin analog we will not see a lot of options here. only x86 arch is good because common supported without any emulator. but ram 16gb, screens are terrible quality - they all  not like in macbook. What's alternative 64gb ram + mini-led screen glossy, color accurate in now days on win|lin laptops?