I know this sounds like a weird statement coming from someone who makes a living point, but this is not a device where they matter so much because if you are the type of benchmark or the type of person in which reports The ratings are not relevant at all, I will tell you right at the top that you should not buy it. Let’s explore the current MacBook market. This MacBook Pro has exactly the same frame as the 13-inch M1 MacBook Pro released in 2020 (which used a design dating back to 2016). It’s the same 2560 x 1600 display, the same Magic Keyboard, the same two Thunderbolt ports, the same Touch Bar and the same slightly tapered sides. Remember all these impressive new (technically old) design features, such as the HDMI ports, SDXC jacks and MagSafe charging that Apple put into the MacBook Pro models released in late 2021? Yes, none of them are here. Neither the fancy Mini LED display nor the upgraded 1080p webcam. Basically, there has only been one change to the MacBook Pro since 2020: it has a new processor. (Okay, so Apple also added a 24 GB memory option, the speakers now support Spatial Audio, the slot has “advanced support for high-end headphones” and the adapter is six watts more powerful … but the processor is the main thing.) Like the M1, the M2 uses Apple’s custom silicon arm. It has more transistors than the M1, more memory bandwidth and an updated multimedia mechanism as well as additional GPU cores (10 in the M1’s eight). It’s a new chip in what is, at this point, an old framework. The 13-inch M2 MacBook Pro starts at $ 1,299. For this basic price, you have an eight-core CPU with a 10-core GPU, 8 GB of RAM and 256 GB of SSD storage. The cheapest model of the 14-inch MacBook Pro has an M1 Pro processor (eight-core CPU, 14-core GPU) but with 16 GB of integrated memory and 512 GB of storage. This model would cost $ 1,999. Now, Apple has sent me an M2 model that is one step above the base. This has 16 GB of integrated memory and 1 TB of storage. It costs $ 1,899 on the Apple website, while a 14-inch M1 Pro model with these RAM and storage specifications will be $ 2,199. Basically, the MacBook Pro with M2 moves steadily around several hundred dollars under its most powerful and modern 14-inch sibling. But these several hundred dollars buy you many benefits that will be of great benefit to business users, including a larger screen, MagSafe, more ports and all the extra cores. The M1 Pro CPU also has more performance-oriented cores, while the M2 has more performance cores aimed at extending battery life. Read more: Apple MacBook Pro 14 and 16 reviews and Apple MacBook Pro with M1 review
Good stuff
Still fast Excellent battery life Dominant performance of a kernel
Bad things
Just two USB-C ports The design is of 2016 The webcam is still bad
It’s an impressive chip in what is no longer the most impressive chassis.
We’ll talk about the benchmarks later, but I’ll spoil the surprise now: as everyone expected, the M1 Pro smokes the M2 in most cases. It is about to double its scores on some of our usual reference tests – it has more than double the performance on others. It’s easily $ 300 better for professional work. For this reason, the target audience for this M2 MacBook Pro is not people who will be exporting things to Premiere all day. The target audience is, as far as I can tell, people like me. I spend most of my day on Google Docs, spreadsheets and Slack – the 14-inch MacBook Pro is too much for what I need and it costs more than I want to spend. But occasionally I need to do things in Photoshop, Lightroom and Audition. I like (very) occasionally playing a game and I want something that can withstand these loads. Look, they are twins. This would be the perfect device for someone like me – if not for the new MacBook Air. This new MacBook Air, also powered by the M2, is coming very soon. It will be, as far as I can tell from the Apple website, the same price as the M2 MacBook Pro for the same specifications in most cases (flattened to the $ 1,499 limit). But unlike the MacBook Pro, the M2 MacBook Air has received a major redesign and includes all sorts of new features – including new colors, a wider screen, a 1080p webcam and, especially, MagSafe – that this device does not have. Everything that was great and innovative for the M1 is still great and innovative for the M2 Regardless of your views on the Touch Bar, it’s still here. Apple has not changed the hardware of the webcam. it is still 720p. Can you guess which is which? Apple has not yet shipped this device to us and it is not available for pre-order at this time. But it could very well be a much better choice for my use case. And that puts the MacBook Pro 2022 – and this review – in a bit of a weird spot. The question of whether you should buy this MacBook Pro, honestly, is not a question I can answer until we know exactly how good this upcoming MacBook Air is. What I can talk about right now is how well the M2 performs and what kind of gains it has over the M1. In short: the M2 is fast and efficient. The M1 was also fast and efficient. The MacBook Pro 2022 can withstand heavy loads for long periods of time. His score at Cinebench of 30 minutes was actually a bit higher than his score at Cinebench of 10 minutes, which we do not see constantly. The results were also the same regardless of whether the device was on power or battery, something we rarely see with Windows laptops. And although having an active cooling system (read: a fan) is what traditionally differentiates the MacBook Pro from the MacBook Air, I never heard the fan on this M2 device – not even when running games. We said all this about the M1 MacBook Pro. This is just to say that these qualities remain. How did this thing get to the benchmarks? In CPU results – Geekbench, Cinebench, Xcode reference point, etc. – the results we see are somewhat better than the M1. In GPU tests, including some games, the results are significantly better. This means that the game is much better, as I will discuss later. The M2 surpassed the more expensive M1 Pro in the mono-core benchmarks I ran. This in itself is impressive (shows that although the M1 Pro has more power cores than the M2, these cores are not as powerful as the individual M2 power cores). But it is also good for the M2 Pro, Max and Ultra variants that we will probably see later. they will likely show speeds of one kernel compared to their M1-based predecessors, rather than just loading more kernels.
MacBook Pro 13 (2022)
Benchmark Cinebench R23 Multi 8689 Cinebench R23 Single 1584 Cinebench R23 Multi looped for 30 minutes 8725 Geekbench 5.3 CPU Multi 8968 Geekbench 5.3 CPU Single 1937 1937 Geekdown 19370906 Geckdown 19370906 PugetBench for Premiere Pro 556 XcodeBenchmark 132,262 seconds 4K Export 0:07:09
MacBook Pro 13 (2020)
Benchmark Cinebench R23 Multi 7729 Cinebench R23 Single 1519 Cinebench R23 Multi looped for 30 minutes 7729 Geekbench 5.3 CPU Multi 7554 Geekbench 5.3 CPU Single 1730 Geekdown 1730 Geekdown 20101, Geekdown 1730, Geekdown 1730 Geekdown, 1730 Geekdown. PugetBench for Premiere Pro 435 XcodeBenchmark 150,125 seconds 4K Export 0:05:28
Apple MacBook Pro 14 (2021)
Benchmark Cinebench R23 Multi 12363 Cinebench R23 Single 1532 Cinebench R23 Multi looped for 30 minutes 12368 Geekbench 5.3 CPU Multi 12596 Geekbench 5.3 CPU Single 1775000, highest CPU number 1775175, with for Premiere Pro 1072 XcodeBenchmark 99,764 seconds 4K Export 0:02:50 Well, check mark: …
