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MACBOOK PRO (2021)
From ₹1,94,900, apple.com
The novelty of Apple first designing and then building its own processors has worn off. It’s not simply a novelty any more: it’s a full-blown revolution. The MacBook Pro now firmly removes Macs from the ‘buy if you prefer macOS to Windows’ category and places them firmly in the ‘just plain better’ camp. The stats don’t lie. The chip at its heart – either the 10-CPU core, 16-GPU core M1 Pro or the 10/32 Max, depending on your spec – makes for a truly superior processor, firmly outclassing the already superb M1 and (though we can’t exactly compare apples-to-apples any more) seemingly flattening both AMD and Intel’s latest offerings.
It’s not all about the guts, though. Apple has marked the occasion of its silicon takeover with a seriously cool redesign of the MacBook Pro, which drops in some much needed quality-of-life features (the return of
