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Apple MacBook Pro (Apple Silicon Edition)

From the outside, it doesn’t look like much has changed. Apple’s 13.3in MacBook Pro is still an attractive piece of hardware. But what you’re looking at here is so much more than just a Pro. It’s the first Pro with Apple’s M1 processor inside. That’s a bigger deal than you’d expect, too, as Apple’s making its walled garden bear a little fruit. MacOS Big Sur has been built to work especially well with the company’s new computer hardware, offering both speed and battery boosts. The battery increase in particular is a little bonkers –up

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