- 14.2 Versus 16.2 inches
3.5 versus 4.7 pounds, six versus eight performance cores, 14 verses 32 graphics cores single versus double video accelerators 16 versus 64 gigabytes of unified memory, 512 gigabytes versus
eight terabytes of SSD, 17 hours versus 21 hours of battery life, and a difference of $500
to over 5,000 or more. So, are the extra size and
features worth the extra cash? I'm Rene Ritchie, thanks
to Ting for sponsoring. And this is MacBook Pro
versus MacBook Pro, let's go. One of the absolute best things
about the new MacBook Pro is that both sizes 14 inch and 16 inch are almost identical, almost. That includes the high dynamic
range HDR mini led displays with up to 120 Hertz adaptive
refresh rate on both sizes. The only thing left for you to do is to pick between those sizes between 14.2 inches and 16.2 inches. Now on paper, that difference
may look like $500, 2000 versus 2,500. But that 2000 is for a lower spec 14 inch, which I'll get to in a minute. If you wanna compare apples
to apples, other apples, once you put the system in parody, the actual difference is
just $200, 2300 versus 2,500. Now bigger might always
just sound like better, especially if you really do
wanna have the most content in front of you as possible for photo or video editing,
music making, 3D rendering, coding, whatever, just all
the canvas, all the layers, all the texts, all the pallets,
all the pixels all the time. But with that extra size
does come extra bulk and yes, extra weight, obviously
the bigger one is bigger, which will affect how easily
it will fit onto your desk and in your bag. But it's also heavier, 3.5
pounds versus 4.7 pounds heavier, half a kilo heavier. And that might not matter
to you like at all, if you're just leaving it on your desk, but if you're carrying it
around all day, every day, that may matter to you quite a lot. So if portability really is the
most important thing to you, you're gonna wanna stick with the 14 inch. But if screen real estate
is everything that matters, you're gonna go all the
way up to the 16 inch. So real talk, unlike Deadpool, not everyone needs maximum
effort from a MacBook Pro if what you really want
is that mini LED display or those HDMI SD card MagSafe
and Thunderbolt four ports. Then the 14 inch MacBook Pro offers you an option of a bend down M1 Pro with only six performance
cores instead of eight and 14 graphics cores instead of 16, same two efficiency cores
and 16 year-old engine cores, just minus two P cores and
G course starting at $2,000 or a $300 less than the full-on M1 Pro and that lower core lower price option just isn't available on the 16 inch model. It's 14 inch only, so if
you absolutely positively have to have a 2021 MacBook Pro but you don't wanna spend
dime or dollar more for it then you absolutely have to, the 14 inch is your nifty thrifty option. But on the other hand, if
maximum effort is your mantra, well for this MacBook Pro you
can actually go either way, both the 14 and 16 inch
models can be escalated from the M1 Pro to the M1 Max, which means really, truly
maxed out with 32 GPU cores, 64 gigabytes of RAM and
eight terabytes of SSD. And they also both have
exactly identical ports, but the 16 inch does have
a bigger thermal envelope. So it'll be able to run hotter for longer. So if you are literally
intent on lighting up all of that Silicon all the time, or at least for a long time, the 16 inch M1 Max and
only the 16 inch M1 Max has a high power mode as well that'll let you goose those
fans and that temperature to let those cores be
absolutely everything that they can be. So if you just want a MacBook Pro and performance isn't your
prime concern get the 14 inch, maybe even the eight core four
GPU version of the 14 inch. But if you really truly
want the MacBook Pro get the 16 inch M1 Max
10 core 32 GPU version. Now you can get the M1 Pro or the M1 Max in either the 14 inch
or 16 inch MacBook Pro both have the same two ice
storm high efficiency cores, eight firestorm high-performance cores and 16 neural engine cores. That is with the exception
of the 14 inches, eight core, M1 Pro variant that I just mentioned. But when it comes to just pure CPU and machine learning performance, you're getting the exact same capability, no matter which way you go. With the M1 max though,
you can get 24 GPU cores for an extra $200 or 32 GPU
cores for an extra $400. What the versions with more cores give you is literally exactly that more, better multi-core performance. So if you're doing
anything that's GPU bound, for example, like heavy 3D
modeling or a ton of effects work or driving a bunch of high rise displays, that's where you're
gonna see the difference. M1 Max also offers extra
accelerator blocks for media two video encode and ProRes
encode and decode engines instead of just one of each on the M1 Pro. So if you're working on multiple
streams of 8K ProRes video or just exporting
outputting a ton of video, for example, you're gonna
wanna go with the M1 Max and for more on all of that, I'll drop a link to my
review in the description right below the light button. The other big difference is of course RAM. M1 Pro supports up to 32
gigabytes of unified memory. M1 MAC supports up to 64 gigabytes. Now, unlike traditional PCs, which have separate CPU's with
RAM and GPU's with video RAM V RAM, all laid out on a giant board, apple Silicon uses a much
smaller system on a chip design or SOC that puts the CPU
and GPU on the same dye and the Ram on the same package. That means they all have access to that same big pool of memory, and don't have to waste time
copying data back and forth. And that pool of memory at 16 gigabytes is already big for a laptop GPU and at 32 nevermind 64
gigabytes is just enormous. Now, most people won't need
more than 16 gigabytes, of course, but if you really
are pushing the limits of your existing machine, if you're doing tons of pro
work in multiple pro apps across multiple pro displays
all at the same time, now you can feed all those cores, all those apps and all those
screens with up to 64 gigabytes of RAM at the same time. So if you're more than fine with your existing MacBook or laptop, you'll almost certainly
be fine with 16 gigabytes. But if you've been frustrated
with 16 gigabytes in the past, if you've already been
feeling memory pressure with exactly those kinds of workloads, then now you can get 32 gigabytes. And if you've always wanted
the equivalent of a Mac Pro in a Book, you can now get
all the way up to 64 gigabytes in your MacPro MacBook
Pro, yeah, it's ridiculous. For SSD the basic rule of thumb
is to take what you have now and just double it for
whatever you're getting next. That way you buy yourself
some breathing room against storage creep. So that pretty much puts one
terabyte at the bottom end of the sweet spot and two
terabytes at the top end any less and you'll likely be
living the external drive life which can be even more
annoying than that dongle life and any more and you're
just paying a premium to store bigger files and projects locally and tempting the backup gods
that the extra convenience doesn't just make you extra sloppy. So if you don't currently
feel any storage pressure, go for one or two terabytes
and then just offload old work when, and if it's necessary,
but if you are feeling it, especially if you travel a
lot and it's just really hard to go external, then look
at more four terabytes or if you just never wanna
look at a drive again, except for backup eight terabytes. Now, if you want the longest
battery life possible, it might seem simple, just get the biggest MacBook
Pro possible the 16 inch, and that's true, but only partially true because the 16 inch absolutely
has the biggest battery bigger than the 14 inch. But the other thing you'll
wanna consider is the chip set, everything else being equal.
If you care about battery life, more than performance, you'll care about the M1
Pro more than the M1 Max, because less Silicon just
means less power draw. But if you put those two things together, the 16 inch with the bigger battery and the smaller M1 Pro chip set will merge combine like Vultron to give you the absolute
longest battery life possible on the MacBook Pro. In other words, maximum performance, the 16 inch MacBook Pro with
M1 Max maximum battery life, 16 inch MacBook Pro with M1 Pro, which also might help
you get maximum value depending on your specific
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