Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and this is the 14-inch macbook pro the all-new macbook pro
and this is not the top of the line model like i unboxed the other day with the m1 max version
this is the m1 pro so if we flip it over you can see this is the 16 gigabyte of unified memory
version with a one terabyte ssd and this one is a little bit different in that it's not the base
model but it's the model that i think most people should probably step up to and what i mean by that
is what you get with this is an m1 pro with a 10 core cpu a 16 core gpu and a 16 core neural engine
so like i said it's not the top of the line again 16 gigabyte of unified memory
and this comes in at and ninety nine 2499 now the good thing about this is it's available now
so you can go into a store and pick up this exact model at least in my local store it's available
now let's go ahead and open it up so here's a pull tab on the top let's open this up
and it's sort of worked so i got to get out my unboxing knife give me just a moment
here's my unboxing knife and let's cut right here there we go
and let's open up the package here
there we go now we'll compare this to the size of some other macbooks the previous generation and
my first editing macbook in a moment but let's go ahead and open this up
and here you can see the macbook pro now this is the size i think most people will go with
because there's not really a compromise between the 14 and the 16 other than the
display size so let's go ahead and remove this for now and let's take a look at what's in the
box so we've got the normal paperwork and just like the other video i did we've got
black apple stickers so mac pro apple stickers are included in the box and then of course
your quick start guide and your warranty guide but that's something that i always appreciated
were the black stickers now inside we have a power adapter let's go ahead and open this up
and this one that comes with it i can't get it out of this paper wrapper here there we go this one
is a 96 watt adapter so this is a usbc adapter and of course again we don't get the extender like you
did years ago you can buy one of those if you want an extension off the end of that i always liked
that but unfortunately this doesn't come with it but this is your typical 96 watt power adapter
and then we have of course the new magsafe cable so this is magsafe to usbc so as you can see here
you've got usbc on one end here and then magsafe on the other and you can see it's a little bit
thinner than previous generation magsafe and then the other thing is this is a braided
cable so it's really nice and braided so let's set this aside and look at the macbook itself
so here's the macbook and let's take the paper wrapper off here
and it looks very familiar although now it's squared off and of course it has macbook pro
pressed into the aluminum of the outside or aluminium depending on where you live and then
it looks like we have pentalobe screws all the way around and then of course the rubber feet
we also have vents on either side now along the right side edge or left side edge you have magsafe
you have two thunderbolt 4 slash usbc ports and a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack that also has
high impedance support now so that could sound a lot better on the front it looks pretty typical
and then on the right hand side you have hdmi another thunderbolt 4 port and an sd card slot
so just like the 16 inch only a little bit smaller so let's set this down and let me show you
compared to the last couple generations so here is a 2016 macbook pro so if i place it on top you can
see the size difference the m1 is the same sort of size but it's a little bit bigger width-wise and
sort of depth-wise is here and then also thickness you can see the difference as well so
it's definitely a little bit thicker so i'm okay with the extra thickness since it reminds me of
the previous generation now like i said i have my original editing macbook and this is a 2008
macbook and so this is when you could actually you'll see it's pretty scratched
up this is when you can actually open the bottom and replace things yourself
so that's what this version is we'll close that up and to give you an idea of thickness
it's very similar to this one although a little bit thinner so this had a cd or super drive slot
and it gives you an idea of thickness so it's not as thick as the older one with the drive
slot in it but it is pretty thick in general so again if i spin this around you can see we had a
ton of ports back then and again it gives you an idea of thickness now this is definitely a step
in the right direction in my opinion bringing back ports for pros that want different sort of
connectivity that sd card slot and more although we do have cf express and things like that now
now this comes in at 3.5 pounds or 1.6 kilograms and it's pretty heavy but not
really too much and you'll get used to that pretty quickly let's go ahead and open it up
it's booting up and the first thing you can see of course is that notch and it's saying hello
and the notch doesn't really bother me and i showed in the 16 inch version that the
cursor goes behind the notch so it's kind of something you wouldn't really expect maybe i
thought it'd follow around the outside or maybe we'll see a different behavior in the future
but it goes around the notch now let me go ahead and get this set up in just a moment but as you
can see it has the black keyboard with the black background and full size keys so i love that it
has full size keys we have our our power button or pretty much just our touch id button and then our
volume keys one thing we do not have is keyboard brightness they've left that in the control center
so i went to press that yesterday on the 16 inch and realized it wasn't there so that's something
i wish they'd have instead of the microphone and sort of do not disturb button but at least we
have full size keys and a full size escape key so we'll go ahead and set this up select my language
once you select your language we'll select our region it's switched to the united states
we'll click continue then we have accessibility options so vision motor hearing and cognitive
talked about that before we'll hit not now and then i'll connect to wi-fi now we've got data and
privacy we'll click continue and then it's asking if i want to migrate from a different machine i'll
just click not now and now we need to put in the apple id we'll agree to the terms and click agree
now we need to set a password for the computer it's setting up icloud now
after going into your account and clicking past find my now we have make this your new mac you can
turn on or off options so if you don't want device analytics on you can customize that and change it
and go back one by one or just leave everything as default we'll just go ahead and click continue
for now we'll set up touch id we'll put our finger on here and this is always
really nice to have no face id on this though even though we have a notch and again we'll do
that again set this up touch id is set up and then we'll click continue now it's asking if i want to
set up apple pay i'll set that up later and now we're at the home screen it's asking if it wants
to use or can use my current location now some people have asked me to show screen brightness
and because this video is not in hdr and you need a screen that can go this bright it's very hard
to show now it goes up to a thousand nits of brightness when you're just using it regularly
however if you're in hdr content it can go up to 1600 nits of brightness so it goes really really
bright very similar to what you have on an iphone and also this is a 14.2 inch liquid retina xdr
display it's 3024 by 1964 with 254 pixels per inch it looks really really good it's hard to explain
what it looks like let me put it next to maybe the 13 inch macbook pro m1 so you can see that
on the left i have the 13 inch macbook pro the m1 version and on the right is the new 14 inch
and so the screens you can see the screen size difference you have a little bit more room for the
menu bar and it looks pretty good overall now as far as the screen brightness like i said i can't
really show it because if i go full brightness you're just not going to be able to see that on
camera the new screen is definitely sharper looks really good and has great viewing angles as well
the old one's not bad but the new one definitely looks a little bit nicer has better contrast
and i can't wait to use it for maybe hdr video now i could show this in an hdr video if you want
to see that if you have a recent iphone you'll be able to see this screen brightness so if you want
me to show that in a different video let me know in the comments below now as far as the keyboard
you can see the difference here you have the full size keys and they are basically the same just
with a black background so they look the same they feel the same when you're pressing them they're
almost identical as far as that goes but you just have that nice keyboard row at the top
now i know some people prefer the touch bar i actually don't i really like the physical keys
i find that the touch bar was annoying and got in the way i often hit it when i was typing
or i had to take my eyes off of my work and look down to do what i needed to do on the
touch bar and then look back i think the idea is great for some people but not for everyone
now as far as benchmarks we'll take a look at that in a moment but let's first take a look at
the camera here so we'll go into quicktime and go to file then we'll go to new movie recording
give it just a moment here and let's select maximum for the quality it's a 1080p webcam
and let's go ahead and hit record now we're recording from the webcam
now like i said it's only 1080p it will be good for conference calls and after looking at the
footage from the 16-inch it's just not that good it's fine for conference calls and things but
the speakers and the audio are great as well as the microphones these are new studio mics
and they really sound quite good they sound very close to this actual studio mic and i was very
surprised how good they've actually got them to sound they have a better noise floor this time so
less interference and it sounds very impressive for just small microphones inside a laptop
so we'll go ahead and stop that and i'll export it so we'll go to file export as 1080p
and let's go ahead and just export that to the desktop see how fast this is and m1 pro export
we'll give it just a moment to export
saving and about five seconds left and we're done so we'll delete that now we've got that
file and we're good to go so this is super fast now i'm not sure how it is compared to an m1 max
we'll check that with benchmarks in just a moment but let's also take a quick listen to
the speakers i've downloaded some royalty-free music so we can listen to the speakers just a
little bit let's go ahead and i'll move the microphone so you can hear it the same as me
so there's a surprising amount of bass and i hit 88 decibels on the speakers when they were
turned all the way up so they're plenty loud and they're very clear maybe you heard that
or maybe you didn't with the microphone as you're only going to hear as good as the microphone can
pick up but they sound really good i'm surprised at the amount the amount of bass they have as well
let's go ahead and check this keyboard out it should be the same as the other but i'll just
type on it quickly and let's do that i'll move the microphone so you can hear what it sounds like
the sound of the keyboard is nice and quiet it feels very good
now my daughter did try the 16-inch macbook pro and said she didn't think it felt as good as
the m1 macbook air however i think they're pretty much the same so i guess it just depends on
what you like but it feels nice and clicky it has good feedback and it's what you would expect from
the most recent version of macbooks now before we look at some of the benchmarks the battery life
on this is up to 17 hours so where the 16 inch is up to 21 hours because of its larger size it
can have a larger battery this has a 70 watt hour lithium polymer battery that can charge
about 50 in 30 minutes but you need that 96 watt compatible charger that comes with it otherwise if
you've got the lower end one that comes with the base model it doesn't have the same fast charging
it still will charge okay but i'm not sure why they didn't include the same adapter for both
now let's go ahead and run a couple benchmarks now let's go into blackmagic disk speed test we'll
select the one gigabyte stress test option and click start you'll see we've got six thousand six
hundred and forty point eight megabytes a second for write speed and up to about four thousand five
hundred and sixty four megabytes per second for read speed so it's almost 5000 for read speed
incredibly fast drives in these new macbooks now as far as geekbench let's go into that and we'll
go to geekbench 5 as you can see i have three different macbooks here so on the far left i have
the m1 macbook pro 13 inch the top of the line version of that then in the middle i have the m1
pro 14 inch and then the m1 max 16 inch on the far right i used the latest version of geekbench 5 and
ran the benchmarks and i ran them multiple times to confirm the findings so on the far left we
have the m1 version and for single core it scored 1748. on the m1 pro 1751 and on the m1 max 1700
not a huge difference between those but when we get to multi-core we see a difference so on the
m1 7629 on the m1 pro 10 946 and on the m1 max 12 thirty four now let's also run a metal test so
we'll go to compute and run the metal test for the graphics the geekbench metal test completed and on
the m1 we have twenty one thousand seven hundred and twenty eight on the m1 pro 38 838 and on the
m1 max 65 715. now we'll run one more test we'll use cinebench and just see what it does there
and on cinebench we'll run the multi-core test now i move the macbooks apart as they're running
this test as i heard the fans start to turn on on the m1 pro so far nothing from the m1 max
now cinebench completed and you can see that the devices are fairly hot right under the keyboard
about 98 degrees fahrenheit under the m1 pro the m1 max is about the same as you can see here with
the thermals and they did both kick on their fans if we look at the m1 the regular m1 it's
a little bit cooler and i didn't hear the fans so there's definitely a difference between them
but they were getting better scores on the m1 pro and m1 max so as far as the scores you can
see the m1 scored 7806 the m1 pro was 12 192 and the m1 max was 12 351. now this does not indicate
that they're slow or anything like that since they're below a rise in thread ripper that's quite
an achievement quite above a core i9 cpu and i think they're plenty fast of course you've got to
consider that they have different encoders on them so the m1 max has double prores encoders the m1
pro has a separate encoder for that so similar to an afterburner card so that's all built into the
chipset on the m1 pro and m1 max so overall pretty impressive as far as the way it feels as far as
heat it's not too hot on the bottom here at all so it wouldn't burn your lap it seems it seems to be
staying nice and cool now finally just to show you side by side the 16 versus the 14 inch just wanted
to show you the difference in overall size so definitely a difference there thickness wise the
16 inches only maybe a millimeter or two thicker probably a millimeter and you can see the overall
size here so definitely a much bigger laptop 14 inch is nice because it has all of the same specs
if you get the top of the line version so you can get an m1 max in the 14 inch and have all
of the same processing power but let me know if there's any specific questions you have about the
m1 pro version of the macbook the 14 inch and if you want to see either a comparison or a final
review between which one and if you're picking one up i'd love to hear from you in the comments
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