Oct 26, 2021 12:30:00

Summary of overseas reviews of 'MacBook Pro' equipped with next-generation Apple Silicon, what is the power of the M1 Pro chip?

On October 26, 2021, Apple launched the 2021 model MacBook Pro . Along with this release, overseas IT news sites have posted reviews saying 'I tried using MacBook Pro', so I summarized the evaluation.

MacBook Pro with M1 Pro and M1 Max impressions: giving the people what they want --The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/22744023/macbook-pro-2021-m1-pro-m1-max-impressions

MacBook Pro 2021 (14-inch) review: Finally | Tom's Guide
https://www.tomsguide.com/reviews/macbook-pro-2021-14-inch

14-inch MacBook Pro (M1 Pro) review: Life just keeps getting better for Mac users | Macworld
https://www.macworld.com/article/546363/14-inch-macbook-pro-m1-pro-review.html

Although it is similar in appearance to the conventional MacBook Pro, it has a more linear design overall and is thicker. Very thin rubber soles are arranged in four places on the bottom, and the 'MacBook Pro' is engraved in the center.

As for the often controversial ports, this MacBook Pro has an SD card slot and an HDMI port. However, in terms of standards, the SD card slot is UHS-II instead of UHS-III, and HDMI is 2.0 instead of 2.1, which is one generation behind the latest standard. Other than that, not only are three Thunderbolt 4 ports continued to be cast as in the previous model, but the charging port 'MagSafe' that sticks with a magnet has been revived.

Among the external design changes, the most notable point is that the

Touch Bar, which has a liquid crystal touch display around the function keys, has been abolished and the physical function keys have been revived. The companies said that the Touch Bar was 'almost useless' and 'it would have been applauded if the moment when the Touch Bar was turned off was distributed to the general public,' and praised this physical function key that works simply and as expected. increase. As for the keyboard as a whole, a question mark has been cast on the point that Apple said 'texture like a mechanical keyboard', and it is actually the keyboard level of a normal notebook PC.

The display has also been greatly modified, and the 'Liquid Retina XDR display' that uses the mini LED that is also used in the iPad Pro has a continuous brightness of up to 1000 nits, a peak brightness of 1600 nits, and a contrast of 1 million to 1. Achieve the ratio. It is also equipped with 'Extreme Dynamic Range' that expresses dark areas in detail and bright areas that reflect light areas, and 'ProMotion' that supports variable refresh rates of up to 120Hz.

Of particular note is the thinner bezel and the addition of a notch. The image below shows the 2021 14-inch model MacBook Pro (left side) and the 2020 13-inch model MacBook Pro side by side, and the bezel has been considerably reduced in comparison, but the 2021 version MacBook Pro has You can see that there is a notch in the center of the upper part.

The notch is equipped with a 1080p camera, which enables finer selfies than the 2020 model 720p camera. Below is a selfie taken by each camera taken by Tom's Guide, with the 2021 model on the left and the 2020 model on the right. Regarding each image quality difference, Tom's Guide describes, 'It goes without saying which is the 2021 model and which is the 2020 model.'

On the other hand, The Verge said, 'This 1080p camera has made progress compared to the traditional disastrous quality, but the speaker is far from the iPhone's in-camera in terms of laptop cameras,' he said in a slightly negative tone. However, in contrast to this denial, he praised, 'It has six speakers, is compatible with spatial audio, and has excellent sound quality and volume.'

In terms of performance, the fact that it is equipped with the newly introduced next-generation Apple Sillicon ' M1 Pro & M1 Max' is attracting attention. Below are the results of the Geekbench 5 benchmark posted by Macworld. Compared to the M1 chip, the M1 Pro chip has been shown to achieve a 65% performance improvement, close to Apple's '70% performance improvement' claim.

On the other hand, the benchmark results for GPU are as follows. ' Rise of the Tomb Raider ' and ' Civilization VI ' have been tuned for Intel, so the Core i9 with 8GB AMD Radeon Pro 5500M as a discrete GPU The on-board model has a better score than the M1-equipped model, but the M1 Pro chip-equipped model has produced even more results, and it can be seen that the performance is much improved compared to the M1 chip.