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The New MacBook Pro is a Marvel.

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HoratioPerdu

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It's early days, but my new 16" M1Pro with just 16GB of ram and a 2TB drive literally mops the floor with my similarly spec'd 2019 Intel 16" MBP.

The screen is stunning; the battery life is actually insane; and the damn thing just ploughs through everything coolly, quickly and quietly - from Parallels to Final Cut Pro.

This is as close to a no-compromises personal computer as I've ever used; from someone who's been fiddling with hardware since the days of SVGA 333mhz basement-builds.
 
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It's a beautiful laptop isn't it? I absolutely love mine. That screen is just amazing - I'm moving all leisure my reading to it. Then to hook it up to a 4k monitor and run several VMs on it at once and have all my applications opened while having the CPU feel completely free is amazing. I've got a very fast work i7 MBP 13 but this thing is just amazing. Then to be able to play all the games I want without hooking up an eGPU is even greater. All the while never hearing a fan!

Enjoy it. I sure do mine.
 
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BigMcGuire said:
It's nice being able to use a laptop on my lap again without overheating or burning things.
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Quite a sweet machine indeed. Unfortunately I don't experience the awesome screen that much since it's mostly used in clamshell mode connected to external monitors. However they are both Pro XDRs so it's a great experience nonetheless. I'm switching to Mac Studio Ultra though, and can't wait for it to arrive.

I'm needing to decide on keeping the maxed out MBP 16 or selling and picking up a base 14 for when I need something portable, which isn't often.
 
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tskwara said:
Quite a sweet machine indeed. Unfortunately I don't experience the awesome screen that much since it's mostly used in clamshell mode connected to external monitors. However they are both Pro XDRs so it's a great experience nonetheless. I'm switching to Mac Studio Ultra though, and can't wait for it to arrive.

I'm needing to decide on keeping the maxed out MBP 16 or selling and picking up a base 14 for when I need something portable, which isn't often.
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I’ve had 13” MBPs for the last four years. I use my 16” MBP on my lap to read a lot these days. It’s a nice change. That and my eyes are starting to go south I think. But yeah before this laptop I was all about portability.
 
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I love my 14” M1 Max, and it truly is a marvel.

The only complaint I have is from 3rd party apps like Citrix Workspace that haven’t yet released a native Apple Silicon app. Sometimes the machine warms up more from Citrix Workspace in Rosetta than it does editing 4K video in FCP, which is absurd but true.
 
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HoratioPerdu said:
It's early days, but my new 16" M1Pro with just 16GB of ram and a 2TB drive literally mops the floor with my similarly spec'd 2019 Intel 16" MBP.

The screen is stunning; the battery life is actually insane; and the damn thing just ploughs through...
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I've had mine for six months or so now (replacing my faltering, tiny 2010 MBAir), and have appreciated it a lot. It wasn't until about two weeks ago or so, that I saw possibly my first HDR video on it:


That bright sunlight! At first it looked unnatural to me, but I eventually realized how much more LIFE-like it was.
Originally I felt I'd paid too much for this thing, as its my "surfing-in-the-living-room" 'pooter, on my actual lap (and I wanted the wider screen, more for lap-fit than for my eyes), but I now realize how much easier it is just to look at, both with text and with video. I don't regret the cost, even if a 16" MBAir appears this fall.
 
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Yeah, the machine is that good. I was skeptical to give up my mid-2015 MBP 15. I wondered if I made an error as I drove home from the Apple Store. It didn't take long to realize just how much better my M1Pro 16 is compared to the 2015, which I had long considered the best MBP given the blunders that Apple was releasing from 2016 on for a few years. All I can say to those on the fence is get the machine. Apple nailed it.
 
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I have no idea how long my MacBook Air 2019 would stand
The cpu is a i5-8210Y, and the thermal sucks. (One small fan blowing cool air in and cool air out)
 
HoratioPerdu said:
It's early days, but my new 16" M1Pro with just 16GB of ram and a 2TB drive literally mops the floor with my similarly spec'd 2019 Intel 16" MBP.

The screen is stunning; the battery life is actually insane; and the damn thing just ploughs through everything coolly, quickly and quietly - from Parallels to Final Cut Pro.

This is as close to a no-compromises personal computer as I've ever used; from someone who's been fiddling with hardware since the days of SVGA 333mhz basement-builds.
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Totally agree.

I got a 14” just a few weeks ago as a family shared device. Upgrading from two very old long lasting devices (MacBook unibody from 2008, MacBook Air from 2011).
My pattern is that I seem to replace a laptop whenever Apple replaces their current architecture. ?
Before that intel-based unibody MacBook I had a PowerPC-based 15” PowerBook (pro?). Looking back at OS Panther/Tiger things looked more simple though. No App Store, no Notification Center, no privacy settings. Feels like macOS/Mac OS X has exponentially become a complexity beast over the years. I mean I come from a C64 … ?

Cheers all happy MacBook Pro owners
 
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HoratioPerdu said:
It's early days, but my new 16" M1Pro with just 16GB of ram and a 2TB drive literally mops the floor with my similarly spec'd 2019 Intel 16" MBP.

The screen is stunning; the battery life is actually insane; and the damn thing just ploughs through everything coolly, quickly and quietly - from Parallels to Final Cut Pro.

This is as close to a no-compromises personal computer as I've ever used; from someone who's been fiddling with hardware since the days of SVGA 333mhz basement-builds.
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I believe it but hope apple retains the Touch Bar in the 2022 entry level model.
 
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ian87w said:
This is one of my main reason if I would buy an M1 Macbook. I'm just sick and tired with intel laptops (no matter the OS) that heat up just form doing basic things like simple web browsing and Windows updating itself.
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My fan runs sometimes but not nearly that much.
 
I agree. It is expensive, but you are getting what you pay for. It is by far the best laptop I have ever used. I just hope some day the amazing mini-LED HDR display is available on other Macs (doesn’t look like it will happen any time soon). In either case I’m planning on holding onto my M1 Max MBP for a while.
 
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Fact is: apple currently can build mobile machines the competition couldn’t if they wanted. And considering up until two years ago apple machines were just a beautified, but hot, loud and often slower version of much cheaper machines…. That says a lot. I know Apple Silicon has its drawbacks, but it was probably the best move they made in…. Pretty much forever.
 
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I got a 14" because I don't really need the 16" and the price difference and physical size both count against it.

Previous laptops, from my first one (an Olivetti!), through Samsung, HP, Dell, etc., have all been far from satisfactory in one or all of: battery run time, heat (whether from charging, from running, or both), noise, screen quality, charging time, size and weight of charger, bad locations of ports, physical size - thickness and big bezel, processor power, amount of memory, lack of keyboard backlight, etc.

This machine just works. (Despite me having had a fault and it needing repair.) Virtually no heat, never yet heard a fan, almost invariably barely above cold, acceptable weight, the ports I need/want, barely a couple of millimetres larger than the screen. It connects to wifi and bluetooth extremely quickly.
 
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It is a marvel indeed! I can confidently say the new MacBook Pro is the best computer I have ever used, going back to the IBM Personal System/2. It is the first laptop that hasn't felt like I am compromising performance for portability. My development process is faster than it has ever been.
 
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