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PRICE M2 Pro, from £2,249 (£2,699 inc VAT); M2 Max, from £2,791 (£3,349 inc VAT) from apple.com/uk
The new 14in MacBook Pro is designed to be the fastest laptop you can take anywhere – with the battery life to back it up. And based on our tests, Apple has delivered an absolute beast for creative pros.
It comes with a choice of Apple’s latest high-end M2 Pro and M2 Max processors; there’s no option for the standard M2 chip, as found in the 13in and MacBook Air models. The entry-level specification, if you can call it that, includes an M2 Pro chip with ten CPU cores and 16 GPU cores, partnered with 16GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD for £2,149.
The next step up sees the processors boosted to 12 CPU cores and 19 GPU cores, with storage doubled to 1TB, pushing the price up to £2,699. The M2 Max version starts with 12 CPU cores, 30 GPU cores, 1TB of storage and 32GB of RAM for a juicy £3,349.
As always with Apple silicon, the RAM is integrated with the processor, so you can’t upgrade it after purchase – but you can choose a model that has more memory in the first place. The M2
