Customer Ratings & Reviews

HDMI SDXC & Magsafe are back. M1 Pro is very snappy. No touchbar is perfectly fine with me. Touch ID is fast too.

I'm not a power user but I have owned Apple laptops since Powerbook days. I have always appreciated Apple products for their thoughtful and useful designs. When my 2015 MBP needed to be upgraded I bought a 2018 one port, (USB-C) Touch Bar, butterfly key MBP. While it was powerful and sleek I never cared for the Touch Bar, hated carrying a "dongle" to connect to it, and had to have the keyboard replaced twice. When the M1 came out last year that was a blessing but not a complete turn around. Yes, the crappy keyboard was fixed and it was very powerful, but it kept the USB-C only ports and still had that dang Touch Bar. Now, just a year later Apple finally listened and has produced the best laptop experience I have ever had. The screen is AMAZING. Great keyboard. NO Touch Bar! And useful ports so I can leave my "dongle" at home. Yes, benchmarks show it is much more powerful and capable but, quite honestly, the M1 13" was Powerful enough for most of the things we do on a laptop. Though I do appreciate knowing this laptop will be relevant for many years to come. Battery life has been excellent - the M1 13" is a little better. But you're still getting twice the battery life of the last Intel generation laptops. The cost is steep, If you already own an M1 MBP and do not need the ports, improved screen and increased horse power stick with your M1. If you can afford the cost you will be rewarded with smooth classy lines in a package that looks, feels, and operates like a premium laptop. This is by far the best laptop Apple has ever produced.

Finally, after over 11-years I've come back to a MacBook Pro once again. My last MacBook Pro was purchased in 2011, mainly purchased for school... but then sold it after 4-years since I had no use for it. At the time I really liked the machine, but overheating and battery was just horrible and mainly because I had Parallels installed with Windows 7 virtual machine, along with 4x other virtual machines. I made minor upgrades to the memory and installed an SSD (during a time when MacBooks were still upgradable), but still it was not efficient to use as I mainly used Windows for work purposes. I have been using a Surface Pro Tablet PC portable machine for the past 7-years. Ive always liked Microsoft Surface PC's, but the screen size has always been too small for my taste and I really never used the touchscreen at all. Fast forward to 2022 and now I still work mainly with Windows for work purposes, but now I have a side business too and decide that I need a powerful machine that can handle all my needs (My work and side business with out sacrificing battery time and speed). This MacBook is insane monster when handling multitasking. The machine works at its peak even when just on battery, something I don't think my Surface Pro could ever handle. The screen is just so beautiful almost OLED type of level colors/brightness, even though its just a 14.2" Mini LED screen. Trust me, I've owned two OLED TVs since 2016, currently have a Sony Bravia XR 65" A80J, so anything less would not satisfy me. I don't think I could ever go back to another Intel machine i5/i7 Laptop or Desktop PC, its like going back to legacy hardware from 2010. I mean, even the MacBook Air M1 2020 model is a beast compared to most intel laptops/PCs, and that's a two year old MacBook product. Apple removed the stupid Touch-bar, added better speakers, brought back useful HDMI/SD card ports, and finally brought back MagSafe connection port. In two short years, Apple has changed the game and I really hope Windows learns for this and steps up their game.

Very solid construction (as always) and fast performance. It's subtle redesign but it works. I miss the Touch Bar a little bit, but the tactile feeling of having the keys back on the top row works just fine as well.

Always a Mac fan! This thing is rock solid! Thought I'd miss the touch bar but I don't!

This is my 2nd MacBook Pro and you can notice the speed difference from my older one. I do miss the Touch Bar though. Great laptop.

The M1 chip is super fast and this version excludes the Touch Bar which I never really put much use to

I think this MacBook has taken the pros of the last few years and added back some features that I have missed. I appreciate having ports back. I think the elimination of the touch bar was a great choice. I did not enjoy accidentally touching it all the time. The speakers are phenomenal on this laptop.

So far, everything works as expected. It doesn’t have a Touch Bar, which my last MacBook Pro had, so if you want that, be aware that it’s not there. I personally don’t miss it.

My favorite apple MacBook pro so far. Love that finally apple got it right. Fans haven't ever turned on yet which is amazing. Love the keyboard feel and thickness. Glad they got rid of the touch bar which was useless.