So we had Refreshers to the MacBook Pros and also the Mac Mini and we also have the brand new M2 Pro
and M2 Max chipset and the M2 pro has been put inside the Mac Mini for the first time however
how does the M2 Pro perform in these new devices that apple have given us how do they compare to
the last generation well today I'm going to give you my first impressions of the M2 Pro Mac Mini
and also the M2 Pro 14 inch MacBook Pro 2. so the brand new M2 Pro chipset is an enhancement
of last year's M1 Pro chipset and this time we've actually got additional cores all around so the
M2 Pro chipset has enhancements over the M1 Pro chipset mainly in its cores whereas last year the
M2 Pro gave us up to 10 CPU cores and up to 16 GPU cores this time around we actually have up
to 12 CPU cores and we actually have up to 19 GPU cores and those cores him off in the CPU of four
efficiency cores up by two from last year and we also have eight performance cores and then
for the GPU we actually have an additional amount of cores where you can actually have three more
this time up from the 16 up to 19. now there is a binned version of the M2 Pro chipset that you
can buy and this will give you a 10 core CPU and in this one you get four efficiency cores and you
also get six performance cores you can also get a binned M2 Pro chipset 2 and this gives us 10
CPU cores up from the eight CPU cores we got in the M1 Pro last year and this consumes of
four efficiency cores and six performance cores then on top of this as well you can also get the
bin GPU but gives us 16 GPU cores instead of the 14 that we got last year with the M1 Pro
initial geekbench scores have shown that the M2 Pro is definitely faster for its CPU cores with
the additional cores even over the M1 Max but with the M2 Pro with only having 19 GPU cores
and the smallest M1 Max comes with 24 GPU cores even though the M3 Pro GPU cores are a little bit
more tweaked up for a bit more performance it still can't beat the M1 Max in GPU performance
and also in video decoding and encoding sort of bits and pieces like that there has also been a
few additional bits and pieces added to the Mac Mini mainly with the back ports as you can see
here we actually have a few more Thunderbolt ports this time round and also as you know with the M2
normal chipset the Mac Mini comes in at a far cheaper price but with the M2 Pro MacBook Pro
14 inch there are definitely a few other changes too and in fact I'm just going to run through a
summary of the review of specs of what the 14 inch MacBook Pro M2 pro has to offer us so here we are
then we have the brand new Macbook Pro 14-inch M2 Pro on the left side and the MacBook Pro 14 inch
M1 Pro from 2021. today I'm going to be reviewing the standard M2 Pro and the M1 Pro chipset not
the binned version so starting off then what we have is we have the display type so the display
technology in both of these MacBook Pros are identical the mini LED Pro motion display first
debuted on the 12.9 inch iPad Pro in 2021 and then later on that year it came to the 14 and to the 16
inch MacBook Pros so both of these models have the exact same screen inside them what is the mini LED
Pro motion display the screen size of this 14 inch isn't exactly 14 inches it's actually 14.2
inches and the main reason is it houses up that little Notch at the top and that's where that
extra 0.2 of an inch comes into play basically because of that notch in the middle what houses
the webcam or the Face Time camera well I'll talk a little bit further on into this video but the
actual screen resolutions on both of these MacBook Pros are identical and that resolution is 3024 by
1964. well it's a fantastic resolution for a Macbook or any laptop this size to be honest
then what that basically sort of converts to is pixels per ins and basically both of these MacBook
Pros have the exact same pixels per inch or PPI what is 254 and which coincidentally is also the
exact same with pixels per inch but you get on the 16 inch MacBook Pro 2 with the mini LED display so
they're exactly the same the pixels per inch 254 of them next of all we actually have the display
refresh rate so we have a 120 hertz refresh rate that's a pro motion display and that's on both of
these MacBook Pros so the display can go up to 120 hertz well it's really quite fantastic for
doing all sort of your editing and also maybe a little bit of gaming too if you wanted to do
that on the MacBook Pro the brightness as well is exactly the same on both of these MacBook Pros the
14 inch and it's a thousand nits so basically this means if you've got light coming in onto
your screen if you've got off your Outdoors for example and you've got bright light hitting onto
your screen the Thousand nits will help you definitely out there so yeah it's really good
to see that and also both of these displays also have true tone technology inside them moving on
to the processor and CPU and this is where the biggest change probably happens the most in the
14 inch MacBook Pros so right now we have the M1 Pros the first one to talk about and the 14 inch
model the M1 Pro the normal chipset has a 10 core CPU and in that 10 core CPU what we actually have
is actually we have two efficiency cores and eight performance cores and then we've also got the GPU
the graphics inside that and that goes up to 16 cores inside like that for the GPU but you can
also get the bin version of the M1 Pro and that comes with an 8 core CPU and that comes with two
efficiency cores six performance cores and also the GPU only has 14 GPU cores inside it but the
MacBook Pro 14 inch M2 Pro is a different story this time what you actually have got the standard
M2 Pro chipset is actually you have a 12 core CPU and this is two efficiency cores and then
also this is now 10 sort of performance cores inside was absolutely remarkable and then also
for the GPU you can go up to a 19 core GPU which also really really fantastic but you
can also pick the binned version of the M2 Pro and this comes with a 10 core CPU and again this
has two efficiency cores eight performance cores and then you also can pick a 16 core GPU with that
the binned version on this so you can see here then for either the binned version or the normal
version of the M2 Pro over the M1 Pro you're definitely begin getting more cores and you'll
see why this is important a bit more later on but next of all let's move on to the ram amounts
now Ram amounts for the M2 Pro and the M1 Pro the choices are exactly the same you can either pick
16 gigabytes or 32 gigabytes of RAM unfortunately you cannot pick any more RAM like 24 gigabytes of
RAM like what you can do with the MacBook Air or you can do that with the M2 MacBook Pro well it's
a little bit unusual in my opinion that that option isn't there but anyway those are the
choices that you have got for that then also we have the storage amounts now storage amounts are
exactly the same as last time with the M1 Pro 14 inch you can choose from 500 112 gigabytes all the
way to up to 8 terabytes with your M1 Pro or the M2 Pro chipset and just in case you're wondering
for geekbench 5 multi-core score and this is on the normal M1 Pro not the bin version and
also the normal M2 Pro again not the bin version the MacBook Pro M1 Pro with a 14 inch comes in at
12 037 but the new M2 Pro normal version comes in at 13 728 and remember Apple claiming up to
20 more performance on the M2 Pro over the M1 Pro then moving on we do have ports so the ports wise
they are very very similar we have three times USBC ports with our Thunderbolt 4 ports and USB 4
ports on that so it's really really cool we still have the magsafe 3 Port as well it's really really
good but HDMI is available on both these machines except for you can also get up to eight okay HDMI
on the M2 Pro what is really really fantastic to see we also do have the SDXC card slot as well so
the SD card so that's really good to have that and then moving on to operating system both of these
machines can run the latest Mac OS 13 Ventura and most likely the M2 Pro will probably be able to
support operating systems probably for the next say five to six years whereas probably the M1 Pro
probably about next four to five years instead so there is a bit of a difference there mainly
because obviously this version of the M2 pros come out in 2023 and the M1 Pro came out in 2021 the
end of that year moving on then to battery life so battery life has changed ever so slightly so with
the MacBook Pro 14 inch M1 Pro you could get up to 17 hours of battery life but now with the 14 inch
M2 Pro you can get up to 18 hours so this based is Apple have made their chipset a little bit
more efficient in the M2 Pro but if you were to do sort of hardcore video editing or photo editing
you probably wouldn't notice the difference really in sort of battery life this is literally pushing
the MacBooks out to the extreme with really low brightness and not pushing out the MacBooks to
do heavy tasks that you're probably actually gain this extra hour but that's about it really
for charging wattage it's up to 96 Watts on the M1 Pro and the M2 Pro it's exactly the
same it's a little less if you get the bin version I think it's 69 Watts on that one
but for the normal M1 Pro and the normal M2 Pro it is 96 watts and again it's a magsafe charger
to charge this up the actual weight of these MacBook Pros are exactly the same again they
both weigh 1.5 kilograms except for I would say that if you did have a number next to that five
of the 1.5 the M2 Pro is ever so slightly heavier in a couple of grams but you would not notice it
at all it's really really hard to actually tell the difference between both of these models but
obviously as it's a slightly bigger chipset the M2 Pro it's slightly more understanding why then
we also have got the stereo speakers both of these MacBook Pros have the exact same speaker
sets inside them and they're also spatial audio for their stereo speaker set then moving on to to
Wi-Fi things change ever so slightly here so the MacBook Pro 14 inch M2 Pro actually has Wi-Fi 6E
whereas the MacBook Pro 14 inch M1 Pro actually only has Wi-Fi six so yeah it has a slightly
newer technology inside it then let's talk about the price this is the most interesting thing so
basically the prices of both of these MacBooks are exactly the same price as of when they were
launched with the 16 inch MacBook Pros though if you got yourself the M1 Max chipset inside
it funny enough it does actually cost two hundred dollars more but here with the binned M1 Pro and
the bend M2 Pro they start out at 1999 US dollars what is exactly the same price so with the MacBook
Pro 14 inch M2 Pro it is a really really good deal because even if you pick the binned version of the
M2 Pro over the M1 Pro you will definitely get at least 2 more GPU cores and two more CPU cores and
plus those cores are also clocked even faster and also the MacBook Pro is even more efficient
as well as you've seen as I've talked about in this comparison so it's really good to actually
get that price so I'm really really happy with that that apple have done that and that is for
the 512 gigabyte model the colors are exactly the same again you get yourself a sort of a gray and
what is the space gray and there's also the silver color 2 and then finally what new Macbook are you
planning to buy this year will it be one of these new Macbook Pros with the M2 Pro or maybe you
might hunt down an M1 Pro so as you can see here we do actually have some adjustments to the M2 Pro
14 inch MacBook Pro we do have that new HDMI port with a 2.1 point in central display up to 8K video
and also we do have the M2 Pro and the M2 MacBook can go inside this MacBook Pro and the same with
the Mac Mini like I said the main difference is this time is the M3 pro has been introduced and
that is really really cool to be honest in my opinion I'm a big fan of the Mac Mini having
the M2 Pro inside it and a lot of you guys are wondering definitely to do with sort of an actual
sort of throttling issues and things like this and personally if anything I would actually say
being that the Mac Mini as you can see here does actually have a thicker sort of kasig than say the
MacBook Pro I actually say throttling issues are more likely going to be inside the MacBook than
they are inside the Mac Mini in my opinion because just look at that in thickness sorts of sizes
you can see there's definitely a difference there and I would personally say there's more space and
probably room to breathe inside this than there is inside the MacBook Pro but we will see very
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