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    Apple MacBook Pro14in (2021)

    Dec 09, 2021 7 minutes
    MATT HANSON

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    PRICE As reviewed, £2,166 (£2,599 inc VAT) from apple.com/uk

    The new 14in MacBook Pro is an ambitious laptop both in terms of hardware and design. It’s aimed at creative professionals who need power on the move, and that means it’s also an expensive laptop. Potentially, very expensive.

    The cheapest model features Apple’s new M1 Pro with an 8-core CPU and 14-core GPU, 16GB of unified memory and a 512GB SSD for £1,899. Specify it to the maximum – with an M1 Max chip complete with a 10-core CPU and 32-core GPU, plus the maximum 64GB of memory and 8TB of SSD storage – and £5,799 will soon be leaving your bank.

    For this review, Apple sent us the more modest 10-core CPU/16-core GPU version of the M1 Pro with 32GB of memory and a 512GB SSD, which costs a comparatively trim £2,599.

    Pro performance

    The M1 Pro in our device includes eight high-performance cores and two high-efficiency cores, switching between them to optimise performance. As a result, macOS Monterey is very responsive; we’ll touch upon the display’s 120Hz refresh rate later, but scrolling up and down is incredibly smooth. You can see from the graphs opposite how powerful this machine is.

    While such benchmarks

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