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When you put an app into full-screen mode, the content fills this perfectly rectangular, 16:10 screen space. If you ignore the menu bar for a moment, the rest of the display has a 16:10 aspect ratio and right-angled corners. Why the inconsistency? I think it has to do with how Apple approaches everything beneath the menu bar. Meanwhile, the bottom corners of the display are still right angles.

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The curve matches the curve of the laptop itself, as well as all the windows in macOS Monterey and macOS Big Sur. The display is curved at the top corners, like an iOS device. I was able to find a few Catalyst-based apps that have already been written to support 120Hz displays on iPad and iPhone, and they looked spectacular. I found that some apps scrolled text in the same buttery-smooth way that apps do on my iPhone and iPad, but others didn’t.

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It will probably take a little while for Mac apps to be updated to support the ProMotion display.

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Movies and TV shows made in HDR consistently surprise me with extra-bright peaks. HDR images that I’m used to viewing on my iPhone or iPad now display just as well on this screen.

In other words, this is a 120-hertz ProMotion display with a wide color gamut, backlit by mini-LED display technology that allows it to run bright and peak even brighter, while also maintaining black levels that contribute to a remarkably extended level of dynamic range. Apple has moved the MacBook Pro to the same technology it’s using in the 12.9-inch iPad Pro. In another laptop, the display would be the entire story.

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(Apple has even migrated the name of the product, previously labeled right below the screen, to an etched area on the bottom of the computer.) A gorgeous display, plus menu bar The notch lives in the menu bar, which gets it out of the way (of everything but menu bar items). The keyboard also reminds me of the Titanium PowerBook and other early Mac laptops, in that it’s got black keys placed in a black key well-in contrast to Apple’s previous design, in which the metal between the keys was the same color as the rest of the shell.Įven the screen reminds me of the Titanium PowerBook-it’s thin, but feels solid, and the borders around the screen are much smaller than on previous MacBook Pros. The result is that, when closed, the top of the MacBook Pro bears a striking resemblance to the Titanium PowerBook G4-it’s a flat expanse, without a leisurely curve at the edge of the shell. The result is a laptop that looks more like a stretched-out version of an app icon-a flat roundrect. The corners are noticeably curved, but the edges are much tighter, eliminating the feeling of gentle, gradual curves. At a glance, you can tell that this isn’t the same MacBook Pro 1 design that we’ve seen over the last decade or more. But just because function has won a round over form doesn’t mean Apple has abandoned its sense of design.

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With this revision, Apple has admitted that it’s okay to stick a few extra ports on a laptop to please professional users. A flatter look They’re separated by 20 years, but the MacBook Pro’s similarity to the Titanium PowerBook G4 is remarkable. Apple has undone its mistakes of the past few years and created a laptop that’s essentially a Mac Pro you can slide into a backpack. And I’m happy to report, it’s true-all of it. I’ve spent the last week with a 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M1 Max processor with 32 GPU cores and 64 GB of RAM.

There’s a different sort of elegance to be found in versatility. When you’re designing a tool for professionals to use-and make no mistake, these MacBook Pros are serious tools for serious jobs and priced accordingly-function should always win out over form. These new MacBook Pros are a success story not just because of Apple’s custom-built processors, but because Apple has admitted (in deeds, if not words) that the previous generation of laptops were a misstep. These are the first high-end Macs to be powered by Apple-designed processors, and that’s a big deal-but they also reject the minimalist design mid-2010s Apple, which achieved design simplicity by forcing complexity and frustration on users. The new 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro models usher in a new era in Apple laptops. 14-inch MacBook Pro review: A Mac Pro in your backpack