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It's here, the new MacBook Pro.

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Unlike the previous generation, this MacBook Pro shows us the future of computing

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without forgetting about today. So you get the latest chip technology

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and nicest screen technology without missing some crucial ports or a useful keyboard.

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But which one should you get? This 14-inch model is the cheapest one you can buy

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with eight and 14 cores, 16 gigabytes of RAM

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and 512 gigabytes of storage. For $2,000.

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It's a lot of money, but is this base tier powerful enough

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to do everything you needed to or should you spend even more?

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I hate to admit this, but yes, the new MacBook Pro offers clout.

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It's got a whole new design that people will notice quite simply

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because the form is very different. It calls out directly to the old Titanium PowerBook G4,

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which was launched 20 years ago. That was a revolutionary design

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because it looked unlike any other laptop that came before.

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The base had rounded corners while the top was more squared off and flat.

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This laptop takes that form and boils it down to its essentials

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using aluminum instead of titanium.

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It's very minimal, almost to the point of being plain,

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but when you flip it open and these two sides separate,

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it really comes into its own. I particularly like the flat lid

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as it makes the laptop look more assertive on the desk from the back.

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I also think that the color for this generation is going to be silver. Space gray is so out.

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It's assertive enough to tell everyone around you that serious work is being done on this computer,

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even if you're writing your next spec screenplay or a YouTube video script,

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because that's who I imagine will be buying a MacBook Pro for Cloud.

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And if you are someone who bought this MacBook Pro to look good writing,

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let me encourage you to get producing because this can do so much more.

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The headline for this MacBook Pro is the addition of the M1 Pro

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and optional M1 Max processors. It's the latest installment in Apple's ARM transition

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and the future looks quite promising. Now, this base model gets a bin version of the M1 Pro,

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which features eight CPU cores and 14 GPU cores

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down from the full option of 10 and 16 respectively.

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But don't think that you're getting the same eight cores as a vanilla M1.

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There are six high performance cores and two efficiency cores in here

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versus four and four under a touch part. Plus, there's an awful lot more besides in this package,

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especially for video editors. The thing I'm most interested in is the media engine,

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which provides acceleration for decoding and encoding of a whole bunch of codecs

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from the commoner Gardner H.264 to the high demand HEVC

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and even professional ProRes. In a professional workflow,

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transcoding the ProRes is something that can help speed up editing, but it takes time.

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Yet with the media engine, it doesn't have to.

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To convert 44 clips to ProRes with compressor,

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a 2020 Intel Core i7 MacBook Pro took just under 25 minutes.

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A full 28 core Mac Pro took just over eight and a half minutes,

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30 seconds more than last year's M1 MacBook Pro, by the way.

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Yet this humble base MacBook Pro took less than three minutes

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and don't think a full 10, 16 M1 Pro was faster

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because they share the same media engine. It took the exact same amount of time,

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but you might be able to get away with skipping and coding to ProRes altogether.

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Even with what should be challenging H.264 footage on a premier timeline

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with some color correction, playback is smooth. You can totally get away with editing

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a relatively straightforward 4K video on this machine without having to think twice about what codec you're using.

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And that's really impressive. Also impressive is how cool the computer remains.

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Have this on your lap, which you shouldn't do, and it gets to a nice comfortable warmth.

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It's not a leg burner like the last Intel MacBook Pro.

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As for benchmarks, the 814 M1 Pro is slower

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than a full 10, 16 M1 Pro to a degree that tracks with the differing core counts.

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But the performance floor is still quite high thanks to the other engines that these processors get now.

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For example, NVIDIA editing, the massive performance acceleration

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we're seeing is thanks to the media engine. This is effectively an afterburner card, but better.

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And all M1 Pros get it. The Max gets even more.

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There's also the neural engine, which will accelerate difficult to process tasks

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like object tracking. These are things that would normally bog down

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but now they're being offloaded to hardware explicitly designed for the task.

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And the CPU can then focus on other things. Like all the stuff you can plug in now.

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Worrying about having the right dongle to get files off an SD card

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is not something anyone wants to deal with. So I'm pleased to report that the built-in reader is back.

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As is the HDMI port, which is perfect for plugging into a projector or TV screen

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should you wanna show off the finished product of your screenplay slash YouTube script.

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But the most notable return is that of MagSafe.

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Apple pioneered the charger plug that could survive the clumsiest of owners

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and then perplexingly abandon it. But it's here with the charging indicator light

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in everything. And it's a USB-C to MagSafe cable clad in fabric

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that's weirdly wonderful. Unlike these old charging cables

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that kind of feel and coil clumsily, this one just feels so free and easy.

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Like how it is to plug in. So the display.

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It's also a significant upgrade. It's an XDR display

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and because of the rounded corners, it's a liquid retina.

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At 14.2 inches in diagonal, it's sizeably bigger than the outgoing 13-inch models.

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You get a noticeable increase in vertical resolution and the pixel density has increased to 254 PPI up from 227.

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This should make for a more generous screen and default display scaling.

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This means that you get a more generous layout when running macOS at the screen's resolution

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divided by two, which is now the default scaling.

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Older MacBook's default scaling isn't actually divisible by the screen resolution.

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And when it is, everything's too big. One difference you will notice

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is the pro-motion smoothness, at least in apps that support it.

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It's really nice when moving Windows around the macOS desktop,

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but it doesn't really work everywhere. And I have encountered uncomfortable stutters here

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and there as it adjusts the refresh rate for what it's doing.

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It can be smooth, but it's just not all the time right now.

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And it makes me realize that there are a few places where it's worth adjusting expectations a bit,

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like the notch. I don't really care that the notch is there,

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even if it takes up a lot of space to fit the much-improved 1080p camera.

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In fact, I'm willing to bet that future MacBooks will get Face ID if they're making this so big now.

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What is annoying is how poorly the notch is implemented in Apple's software.

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As snazzy guy Quinn Nelson noticed, the menu bar options can inexplicably

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get pushed under the notch, while in other apps they don't.

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And developers aren't sure how to implement it. Now, if this is a problem for you,

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you can't try to fix it by setting the individual apps

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to scale to fit below the built-in camera.

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But that just makes the entire screen proportionally smaller.

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Look at these giant bezels the MacBook Pro has now.

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Now, in regards to full-screen mode, I'm delighted to report that Monterey now has the option

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to keep the menu bar visible permanently in full-screen mode.

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It's not on by default, but thank you.

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Though the problem of apps buttons getting blocked

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or pushed away for the red, yellow, green, closed buttons

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and header bar still persists. Stop doing this.

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But this is still progress. And the notch lets you get the best of both the menu bar

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and vertical real estate, well except for these six pixels.

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That's all our menu bar takes up under the notch. I don't think they should have done that.

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It's just a waste of space. Is that six pixels? What are we counting?

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It might be eight. Okay, so the notch is a bit of a wash.

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Kind of like the battery life. The battery will last you a full day,

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but over the course of 24 hours from a full charge to empty, I got about seven hours of screen on time,

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mostly installing apps all day. Apple claims up to 11 hours of web browsing

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in 17 hours of video playback. In fact, Anthony clocked 22 hours with this,

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but begin adding professional tasks and your battery life will suffer.

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That being said, macOS does not throttle the MacBook on battery at all.

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All the benchmark tests I did running on the juice spit out the same numbers as if it were plugged in.

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One thing you won't get with this base model though is fast charging.

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With the 96 watt charger, that's $20 extra

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or included with upgraded models, you can charge to 50% in just 30 minutes.

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Sounds great, but I did try to charge this base model

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from dead with the included 67 watt charger.

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And after half an hour, it was at 41%. So not a huge difference, unlike the price.

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This is $2,000 and any and all upgrades

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will increase the cost right quick. Just upgrading the RAM, which you might wanna do,

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will set you back $400. Simply upgrading to a one terabyte SSD is 200.

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It's 600 if you want two terabytes. And a full 1016 M1 Pro processor is $300.

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See what I mean? But compared to an eight eight M1 MacBook Pro

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with the same memory and storage, this one costs $300 more.

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And for that, you get a more capable chip, way better screen and less dongle life irritation.

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It's certainly worth that cost, even if it shows how expensive an upgraded eight eight M1 is.

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The story with this MacBook is that it's very powerful,

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almost too powerful for what I use a computer for. So the question becomes, which one should you get?

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If you're not a creative professional, but maybe thinking about getting into video editing

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or anything creative, or you just wanna look cool, just get the base model.

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If you're doing anything more intensive though, like music production, 3D animation,

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or 8K multi-cam video editing, it's worth venturing beyond from the base model,

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even if it's just a little. In some respects, it's important to remember

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we haven't completed the ARM transition journey. And the capabilities of these machines

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should expand even more as developers take advantage of all the different parts of the M1 Pro SOC.

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Right now, some are further behind than others. I'm predicting that as we explore

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the more powerful models on different workflows, we'll have a better idea of what's ready

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and just how much better these laptops are. So stick around for that.

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And they are better. These are much more practical than the Macs they replace.

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This inspires optimism for the future of the professional Mac lineup,

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something we've been missing for a long time.

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Thanks for intruding on this Mac Address.

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Now, if you like the video, give it a like. And if you wanna see more in the future,

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give us a subscribe. Now, I'm curious how many of you would go

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for this base MacBook Pro over, say, a MacBook Air

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or even last year's M1 MacBook Pro?

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It is quite a bit more money, but think of the cloud.

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That's gotta be enough, right?