you're professional and you need a
laptop that can keep up with your
fast-paced lifestyle however laptops
never measure up to their desktop
counterparts so you're always
compromising on power speed and battery
life in the name of portability you're
used to dealing with spinning wheels and
freezing screens and you've grown
accustomed to constantly searching for a
power outlet you've even started to
bring your desktop computer with you on
business trips I'm looking at you
Marquez you've tried every laptop out
there and you're tired of having to make
compromise after compromise then
something changes a new laptop is
released that promises to be different
and you keep hearing that it actually
lives up to the hype you try it and
discover that it is in fact the best
laptop for pros ever made that computer
is the MacBook Pro and what's crazy is
that it was released back in 2021 and
apple just made it even better let's
talk about out last week Apple announced
the availability of updated 14 and 16
inch MacBook Pros packing new M2 Pro and
M2 Max chips making them even more
powerful than they already were Apple
sent over this 16 inch M2 Max model that
I've been testing inside the box you'll
basically find three things obviously
there's the MacBook Pro itself the 140
watt charging adapter which can fast
charge this laptop more on that later
and the braided magsafe charging cable
oh and if you love Apple stickers of
course there's one in here too now
there's a lot to these new machines
which I'll get to in the full review so
be sure you're subscribed for that but
in the meantime if you're interested I
will have links to these down in the
description below if you want to check
them out for yourself that said let's
start by talking about the features you
need to know about starting with the
design if you didn't pick up the 2021
model then you'll want to be aware that
the ports have been brought back to the
MacBook Pro I'm talking about the return
of the SD card slot which is something
every creative professional who I know
uses the return of HDMI which is
something I rarely use but in corporate
environments is a must-have for
presentations and this new model can
connect to TVs and displays at up to 4K
with a 240 hertz refresh rate and even
8K TVs at 60 hertz there's also the
return of magsafe which supports fast
charging the MacBook Pro giving you 50
charge in just 30 minutes there's even a
3.5 millimeter headphone jack that
includes Advanced support for high
impedance headphones and three USBC
ports that are now Thunderbolt 4. the
magic keyboard saw changes too with the
removal of the touch bar which has been
replaced with full size function keys
including a key for quick toggling do
not disturb there's also a 1080p
FaceTime camera now which I'm mentioning
in the design portion of the video
because it's in this display cutout this
is how Apple made the borders at the top
thinner by wrapping it around the camera
module but speaking of that display
let's talk about it there are two sizes
of the new Macbook Pro 14.2 inches with
a resolution of 30 24 by 1964 and 16.2
inches at a 3456 by 2234 resolution both
sizes use the same mini LED technology
that Apple ships on the 12.9 inch iPad
Pro offering much better local dimming
when compared to previous LED displays
and these are also Pro motion displays
which allow for adaptive refresh rates
at up to 120 hertz they'll automatically
adjust based on what you're doing so if
you're scrolling or playing a game you
can expect the refresh rate to increase
but if you're reading a static document
the refresh rate will imperceptibly drop
which is a bonus for your battery life
it'll also offer the option for users to
set locked in refresh rates which is
important for video editing and other
use cases that rely on specific screen
settings now these mini LED screens can
put out a thousand nits of sustained
brightness with 1600 nits Peak
brightness for HDR content for reference
the last Intel MacBook Pro topped out at
500 nits the display is so good that
it's hard not to call it the most
impressive feature but then there's the
performance on The Reel Apple silicon is
out here shining Apple introduced the
two most powerful chips it's ever
created for its laptops in the M2 Pro
and M2 Max these are more powerful
versions of the M2 Chip that we saw
launch in the entry level 13 inch
MacBook Pro and redesigned MacBook Air
last summer and those were already
impressive while the M2 Pro is the
Baseline chip for the MacBook Pro you
can upgrade to the M2 Max for even more
performance and that's the version I've
been testing here so let's talk about
that chip the M2 Max takes the already
impressive m2r architecture to an even
higher level it supports up to 400
gigabytes per second of memory bandwidth
and up to 96 gigabytes of RAM yes apple
is about to have you out here walking
around town with a laptop with 96
gigabytes of RAM in it that's the most
ever in a laptop chip this is Unified
memory which allows the CPU and GPU to
share a single pool of memory which
means your GPU has access to way more
than the typical 16 gigabytes you'd find
on a dedicated laptop Graphics chip for
those who work with video the
industry-leading media engine and prores
acceleration means you can play back up
to 43 streams of 4K prores or 10 streams
of 8K prores video while preserving CPU
and GPU power the M2 Max Sports a 12
core CPU with eight high performance
cores and four efficiency cores and you
can get the GPU with up to 38 cores
giving you 30 percent faster GPU
performance than the M1 Max from the
previous model which brings me to gaming
and I know it's weird to talk about
gaming in a Mac video but I played
Resident Evil Village on the M2 Max
MacBook Pro and as you can see here in
the metal performance HUD the game ran
perfectly the metal performance part by
the way is an on-screen overlay that
allows you to monitor gameplay
performance with real-time stats and
logging memory usage resolution CPU and
GPU render time and frame presentation
deadlines just Google it and you can see
how you can turn it on for yourself I
wanted to get a feel for what the M2 Max
can do so I bumped all the settings to
maximum at a resolution of 1440p with
metal FX upscaling quality mode enabled
and as you can see the game was hitting
about 140 to 175 frames per second again
at Max settings then I decided to really
tax the system by changing the
resolution of the game to 3456 by 2234
that's the full resolution of the
MacBook Pro's display now without metal
effects upscaling enabled it hovered
around 80 to 90 frames per second in
this mode which was surprising but even
more so re-enabling metal effects
upscaling quality mode brought it to 110
frames per second that's maximum
resolution at maximum settings and the
MacBook Pro handled it like a beast one
other bump in performance this year
Apple has upgraded the latest MacBook
Pros to Wi-Fi 6E like they did with the
latest M2 based iPad Pros you'll need a
Wi-Fi 6E router to take advantage of the
new speeds which are up to twice as fast
when compared to the previous generation
up next let's talk about one of the most
impressive stats about the new Macbook
Pro battery life the dream is to be able
to carry around your laptop without
having to worry about also bringing the
charger with you everywhere you go and
that dream was achieved when Apple
released its M1 laptops but the 2023 60
teenage MacBook Pros take it to another
level giving users up to 22 hours of
video playback which is the longest
battery life ever on a Mac and 15 hours
of wireless web browsing which is a
three hour increase from the fastest
Intel based MacBook Pro the power
efficient design of Apple silicon allows
for the same level of performance
whether you're plugging in or running on
batteries and when it comes to charging
the 140 watt power adapter for the
16-inch model will charge the battery
again to 50 percent in just 30 minutes
next we need to talk about sound the
MacBook Pro includes a high fidelity six
speaker sound system with a force
canceling woofer and Wide Stereo Sound
along with a studio quality 3 microphone
array with a high signal to noise ratio
and directional beam forming now Apple
has been at the top of the computational
audio game in my opinion as we've seen
the company do some amazing things with
the sounds coming from airpods and the
iPhone and iPad's built-in speakers and
the previous generation MacBook Pro the
speaker array also supports spatial
audio audio when playing music or video
with Dolby Atmos creating a
three-dimensional Sound Stage that
sounds incredible there are no better
speakers on a laptop than what you'll
find on the 16 inch MacBook Pro in
particular MacBook Pro gives you
performance and battery life like never
before you can configure your 14 or 16
inch with the latest M2 Pro or M2 Max
chip for ultimate power efficiency and
long lasting battery life so whether
you're a developer photographer
filmmaker 3D artist scientist music
producer or anything in between this is
the laptop that will take your
creativity to the next level thanks for
watching as always guys I appreciate
your support I'm andru Edwards and I
will catch you in the next video