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However, the trees don’t quite grow into the sky, because the old-fashioned USB-A ports haven’t returned, so you’ll still need to carry a few dongles in your bag if you want to use the most common USB sticks and various accessories with your MacBook Pro.

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Gone is the cursed Touch Bar above the keyboard (only one button with Touch ID remains), and in its place we’ve got the return of a series of full-height function keys.

Two steps forward and one step backĪnother great news that the 14-inch model has in common with its big brother is that Apple has listened to its fans. The result is completely seamless video playback without any choppiness. Add to that a 120Hz refresh rate that adapts the screen’s refresh to the content. all light up, creating a more realistic and compelling image than we’ve ever seen on any laptop. The high peak brightness means that sunlight, reflections in water surfaces, snow landscapes, etc. Everything is razor-sharp, and when watching high-resolution video (4K HDR), for example, both the contrast of the image and the richness of colour are simply stunning. In practice, the technology translates into the most beautiful screen and image quality I’ve seen on a MacBook to date. There’s also a 3.5mm minijack for headphones and three USB-C inputs with Thunderbolt 4, so you can connect up to two external 6K monitors, among other things. That includes HDMI 2.0 and the SDXC card reader. A number of ports that Apple eliminated a few years ago have also returned. Apple calls it Liquid Retina XDR, but in reality it’s a new Mini-LED design that uses over 10,000 LEDs across the entire back of the screen, delivering 1000 nit full-screen brightness (up to 1600 nit peak brightness) and 1:1 million contrast. The technology is the same as in the iPad Pro from 2020. Of course, my test specimen has most in common with the 16-inch MacBook Pro we’ve already tested. And all experience shows that it’s money well spent, because a MacBook Pro like this usually lasts for many years and needs replacing far less often than most Windows laptops. Because while the price tag of our test model with eight processor cores, 14 graphics processor cores and 16 gigabytes of RAM is certainly hefty, it’s still an amount that many people are both able and willing to pay for their most important work tool. That’s why there’s good reason to believe that the new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M1 Pro processor will be the best-selling of the many new configurations.

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The smallest MacBook Pro model has traditionally been popular with users who work intensively and frequently on their computer and therefore need high performance, but also prefer the more mobile and portable form factor offered by the smallest MacBook Pro compared to the significantly larger and heavier 16-inch model. (Photo: Peter Gotschalk) The more mobile solution As you can see in this photo, the new 14-inch MacBook Pro (left) has sharper colours, more depth and contrast than the older 13-inch MacBook Pro (right). The new 14-inch MacBook Pro features a Mini LED display with HDR and a wider colour gamut and smoother colour gradients.

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Because we’re many fans of Apple’s smallest 13-inch MacBook Pro to date who have been eagerly awaiting the upgrade to 14-inch, so there was great joy when it was finally launched last October. Still, there’s good reason to take a special look at the cheapest and smallest of the new models.

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