MacBook Pro 14 & 16 (2021)
From $2,999 (14-inch), $3,749 (16-inch) | apple.com/au
The late 2020 Macbook Pro 13 and MacBook Air models introduced the revolutionary M1 processor, which fundamentally shifted the parameters of laptop efficiency. Many, however, predicted that the next iteration of Apple’s in-house SoC would test just how far Apple can push the M1’s performance envelope. Turns out the RISC processors that were almost exclusively found in smartphones and tablets before the M1, can actually be amazingly powerful, at least when Apple is building them.
On the handful of benchmarks where you can actually compare them, both the 10-core M1 Pro and M1 Max chips are capable of outpacing the most powerful laptop processors from either AMD or Intel. That’s a
