Here’s looking at you
As noted, these top-of-the-line models look just like other MacBook Pros, featuring beautiful slabs of rounded, milled aluminium with an Apple logo and a display to match. The screen is critical to the experience of using these Macs, and the Liquid Retina XDR screen offers exceptional, super-bright performance (1,600 nits peak brightness), with support for a billion colors.
The review unit in hand also had the nano-texture display, which noticeably reduces glare, reflections, and smudges. You can work effectively on your Mac in all kinds of lighting conditions, including when you work outside on bright, sunny days. And Apple promises up to 22 hours of battery life, though my real-world testing shows if you are handling huge files and demanding workflows you’ll certainly get less than that. How much less is hard to state. But I believe a typical Mac videographer working on video outdoors should have a full working day on the MacBook pro, with some left over for watching the world unravel on social media.
Buying advice
What you have in this box proves that everything in these Macs is about performance. That’s as true of the processor as it is to the internal components, the ports, the speedy SD 4.0 SDXC card slot, and even the inclusion of Wi-Fi 7, which supports speeds up to 2.4Gbps in the 6GHz band.