It is not possible to upgrade the RAM or storage after purchase.įor comparison, the MacBook Air M2 starts at £1,249, while Windows laptops roughly equivalent to the new machines, such as the Dell XPS 15, cost about £1,950, the Razer Blade 14 is about £2,100 and Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Studio costs from £1,449. Models with the 12-core CPU/19-core GPU M2 Pro cost from £2,499, while M2 Max models start at £3,149. The 14in MacBook Pro starts at £2,149 ( $1,999/ A$3,199) for an M2 Pro chip with 10-core CPU and 16-core GPU, 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. Apple offers trade-in and free recycling schemes, including for non-Apple products. Repair specialists iFixit praised the machine’s more repairable design but criticised Apple’s use of software locks on replacement parts. The computer is generally repairable and has repair manuals available, and the battery can be replaced for £245 by Apple. Apple breaks down the computer’s environmental impact in its report. The MacBook Pro is made of 30% recycled materials, including aluminium, rare earth elements, tin, gold and plastic. The body of the laptop is made from recycled aluminium and comes in silver (pictured) or dark grey. The battery reaches a full charge in just under 90 minutes, hitting 50% in about 30 minutes using Apple’s included 96W USB-C charger and MagSafe cable, but it can also charge via any of the USB ports. That’s thoroughly impressive, outlasting all rivals by some margin. The M2 Max chip is also available for those who need more graphics or power for specialist applications.įitted with the M2 Pro, the laptop lasted about 10% longer on battery than its predecessor in my testing, managing more than 15 hours of light work such as word processing or browsing and about 12 hours of more demanding tasks such as editing batches of large images in Affinity Photo. That puts it alongside some of the best Intel and AMD laptop chips, but at considerably lower power consumption. The new M2 Pro chip offers decent performance gains on the already very fast M1 Pro chips, with up to 14% improvement in CPU speed and up to 22% faster graphics in tests.

The laptop has three Thunderbolt 4/USB 4 ports, HDMI 2.1 and headphone ports, SD card reader and a MagSafe power cable. Screen: 14.2in mini LED (3024x1964 254 ppi) ProMotion (120Hz)Ĭonnectivity: wifi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3, 3x USB 4/Thunderbolt 4, HDMI 2.1, SD card, headphones You can use an iPhone as a wireless webcam, which works really well but is less necessary because the FaceTime HD camera on the MacBook Pro is pretty good already. It generally runs similarly to previous versions and not too different to Windows, but has useful screen-sharing and proximity features, allowing you to use a recent iPad as a second screen or control it remotely. It runs macOS 13.2 Ventura like all recent Macs, including its desktop stablemate, the Mac mini. The keyboard and huge trackpad are best in class, while the power button in the top right doubles as a Touch ID sensor for logging in.

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