Hey friends, Andrew here, hope you're well! So, it has always been a month and I spent roughly 200+
hours with this lunatic and...Apple has outdone themselves again. I've used this 14 inch macbook
pro with the m1 pro chip over the last month and here is now my one month review from the
perspective of a creative business owner and just a guy that loves tech and hint this this is the
macbook we've truly been waiting for but there are trade-offs and by the way if you enjoyed the short
b-roll intro drop a like on this video and sub if you also love tech and business so the macbook i
have here is the 14 inch very specifically 14.2 inch in space gray with 10 core cpu
16 core gpu 16 gigabytes memory and one terabyte ssd i typically custom build the macbooks i order
but the demand for these on launch day were insane and i was a little impatient so i opted
for the standard build i was also tempted by the 16 inch simply for the additional real estate
but having spent the time with the 14 inch i have zero regrets with my choice in fact i feel it's
the sweet spot in form factor and portability and if you too regularly travel i'm confident the 14
inch will suit you perfect speaking of its design these new laptops feature the first visual design
changes to the macbook pro line since 2016. it's boxier chunkier and overall rather retro
looking and look i'm going to throw away the apple bias here and let's be serious it's pretty ugly
and i know this is subjective but the new chunky look just hasn't grown on me in the last month
and the larger size becomes rather apparent when we stack this up against the 13 inch
m1 it's also significantly heavier 0.5 pounds to be exact it's interesting to note
currently the apple website lists the 13 inch to be .01 centimeters thicker than the 14 inch but
can we get a remeasure here because i'm pretty sure it's visibly thicker but as we know beauty
can be a performance bottleneck so to be fair we do get practicality as a trade-off
in return we can finally throw out all our adapters now that we have a hdmi port three usb
c ports and even an sd card slot the convenience these ports have brought into my daily life
cannot be understated even when it's docked the quick access to an sd card slot is appreciated
rather than jumping under the desk to fiddle around with the cal digit ts3 plus hub
the next evident design change is apple's decision to give the macbook screen a notch the reason for
the notch is simply the fact we now get an ultra thin bezel which looks amazing in person and also
gives us more space to work with this notch houses various sensors and the new 1080p facetime webcam
which i'll review in a moment so i personally don't mind the notch and hardly notice it but
it is worth mentioning some users have seen issues with the notch because the notch blocks the screen
rather than wrap around the dead space as you can see right now apparently it has caused issues like
blocking menu items i personally haven't found any issues with it but either way any issues should be
resolved soon enough with a software update but it is odd that apple overlooked these issues in
the first place on a brighter note pun unintended the all-new slimmer display is drop dead gorgeous
it's worth spending more time focusing on this display so let's go over the stellar display
upgrade you'll get for your hard earned cash first off the rank we have the very welcome edition
of apple's promotion which is a variable refresh rate system that goes all the way up to 120 hertz
this is great on paper but here is the big caveat an issue that isn't mentioned often
enough the smooth scrolling that you'd expect from promotion is nowhere to be visibly seen
at the moment reason being promotion is not being utilized in many applications because apple hasn't
provided documentation on what developers need to do to take advantage of promotion heck safari is
yet to even take advantage of promotion from what i believe we now also get an xdr display the same
display seen in apple's insane a five thousand dollar pro xtr monitor this means it can now reach
a peak brightness of 1600 nits and for comparison the 13 inch m1 reaches only 500 nits there is a
caveat though the peak brightness is specifically limited to hdr content so just don't expect to see
any major brightness difference day to day lastly and maybe most importantly is the switch to mini
led technology so the screen is now composed of thousands of mini leds each separately adjusted
so this results in an insanely high contrast ratio and blacks look like true blacks similar
to an oled display the combination of all these elements equals quite possibly the best screen you
can get on a laptop as of right now so we know the display absolutely hits the ball out of the park
but now let's dive into the elephant in the room and that's new m1 pro chip this is specifically
the m1 pro and not the m1 max i'm sure most will be using the m1 pro chip anyway i'll start with
this apple has out invented themselves i'm still in disbelief how apple has managed to break away
from intel and build something so incredibly powerful in-house on their first attempt
these chips hold their own against the current mac pro line and so there's good reason why the
new m1 macbooks have been replacing full desktop setups for many including myself
i've been using this laptop over the last month for creative work digital marketing and running a
company so on my to-do list are things like video editing and photoshop work through to pdf document
creation and having many many many browser tabs open the m1 pro is able to slice through all these
tasks without breaking a single sweat how well we all know the m1 chip architecture is a leap beyond
the old x86 architecture but both the pro and max chips take this up another level remember the m1
is not a cpu the m1 is a package consisting of three processor cores gpu cpu and unified memory
these have all received upgrades in terms of both quality and quantity the biggest reason
that m1 has been setting industry benchmarks as a trailblazer boils down to the fact that the cpu
and gpu work in harmony and compute tasks far more efficiently through a unified memory architecture
by far the most evident boost of all from the 13 inch to 14 inch is the increase from an 8 core gpu
to a 16 core gpu while all these additional calls translate to neat instantaneous app launchers fast
power on start to free browsing it truly shines when it comes to creative work with large raw
files or 4 and 8k footage this is particularly the case if you're using the apple creative suite such
as final cut pro exporting a 14 minute 4k video took 17 minutes and 5 seconds on the 13 inch m1
and significantly faster 15 minute and 40 seconds on the new 14 inch m1 pro i expected a bigger
leap than this though to be fair i did see even more dramatic export time differences on other
video projects i was working on over the last month up to five minute differences in one case
this is a lot of minutes we could reap back into our day but the 13 inch m1 is absolutely no slouch
even previewing large raw files is instantaneous whereas there's a few second delay on the 13-inch
m1 seconds that all add up at the end of the day navigating large files on photoshop or even large
pdf documents is evidently smoother on the 14-inch m1 pro 2. with all this insane power behind the
hood it begs the question how has the battery held up over the last month amazing as expected
i got about 12 hours of continuous usage on a single charge and yes that's pretty heavy
usage with demanding apps running surprisingly or not surprisingly it falls short when we compare
it to the older 13 inch m1 where i'd get about 15 to 20 more battery life on a single charge
this is likely due to the power hungry m1 pro chip but the 14 inch redeems itself with access
to fast charging which grants you a 50 charge from zero in 30 minutes fast charging works on
both usbc and the new magsafe 3 but just note for those of you buying the base model 14 inch
it comes with a 67 watt power adapter so you need to fork out 20 for the 96 watt power adapter
upgrade for fast charging a cheeky apple upsell for the higher spec 14 inch models you're golden
for the 16 inch however your only option is magsafe when it comes to fast charging beyond all
of this the new magsafe 3 is braided sleeker and just an overall welcome return when it comes to
the new keyboard apple has completely removed the touch bar i can hear some of you cheering right
now but honestly i never understood the dislike towards the touch bar but i wasn't attached to
it either so to me the keyboard is as nice as ever and my favorite laptop keyboard to type on
we now get dedicated keys for things like the volume escape button and an updated touch id
button face id is still missing however but i wonder if it could come via a future software
update the tactical feedback is great and guys this blacked out keyboard with a black anodized
aluminium inset is so super clean big fan when you think things cannot get better in comes
the hot new speakers and the webcam the first time the speakers came on during setup i was
truly impressed it is an upgrade almost any ear can pick up on it's not surprising considering
the inbuilt speakers now support spatial audio with two tweeters four forced cancelling woofers
and a three microphone array this equals eighty percent more bass and reaches half an octave
lower than the previous macbook pro line although most of us will be using dedicated speakers either
docked or via bluetooth it's peace of mind knowing that we have complete access to tremendous inbuilt
speakers when on the move going back to the controversial notch it houses a frankly overdue
upgraded webcam it's now finally full hd up from 720p a larger sensor and also
better low light performance i can confirm the webcam looks a whole load better in tests in
all sorts of lighting conditions a very welcome upgrade considering how often we now use webcams
the webcam is comparable to the webcam used in the 24 inch imac in my opinion and for
the record that's a great thing for true pro performance you'll be paying a pro price the most
affordable setup will set you back two thousand dollars and thousands more for more powerful
configurations and there's no denying this design is a whole lot chunkier and heavier but it can be
forgiven purely based on what we receive in return absurd performance much needed ports
best in class display improved speakers webcam and great battery life to tie it all together
guys and girls this macbook here it's well and truly a beast of a machine yes it is a little
rough in its design and yes you do pay for it but dang it is so good i constantly have the urge to
undock it and just work remotely to appreciate the xdr pro motion display and keyboard honestly
i didn't expect to say this it's a no-brainer upgrade so long as you know how the added power
will benefit you and you're able to afford its price tag it can be argued it's overkill for
regular users but it's undoubtedly the best laptop right now for video editors programmers audio
specialists photographers or even just business owners this is a future proof laptop you can keep
and hold on for a long time to come thanks to the m1 pro and max chips which should age
relatively well as more software and apps better leverage it over time i still do however highly
recommend the more affordable 13-inch m1 for the majority of users out there looking to upgrade
and that don't have an m1 macbook yet so i'll leave a link to my long-term one-year review on
that laptop after this video for those who are interested so if you made it this far into the
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