There’s a lot to love about the new 13–inch MacBook Pro. It’s the first laptop of the Apple silicon era to come with the new M2 chip (our in–depth review of the M2 MacBook Air will follow next issue) while retaining the same long battery life as before (up to 20 hours) thanks in part to the M2’s incredible energy efficiency. And yet…
Let’s get the good stuff out of the way. Firstly, the MacBook Pro 13–inch is the latest in a long line of laptop Macs that successfully teams powerhouse features with ultimate portability that started with the 12–inch PowerBook G4 in 2003 (see the “Evolution of the MacBook” feature on p28) and continues today. Almost everything you could want in an ultra–portable Mac is here: a 13.3–inch LED–backlit Retina display offering True Tone (for ambient backlight colour adjustment) and 500 nits brightness, up to 2TB of SSD storage, and the M2 —
