Apple MacBook Pro 16 2024 review - Enormous battery life and better performance of the M4 Pro

[winston95]

Ask Apple Intelligence to sum it up for you. Funny how you say it was ChatGPT but you claim you didn't read any of it. True iSheep at their finest.

It doesn't take a genius to recognize lazy prompt output from the world's most ubiquitous LLM. Five words is all it took. Not surprising someone so willfully ignorant wouldn't be able to, though.

[RobertJasiek]

Thanks ChatGPT. [...] output from the world's most ubiquitous LLM

Applefan (you) advertising for Apple by personally attacking others (me, by calling me a bot).

[YUKI93]

I'm definitely questioning the absurd power consumption. Previous M Pro chips never go beyond 105W of power consumption, even with the smaller MacBook Pro 14. This M4 Pro has almost the same power consumption as M Max chips, including the M4 Max. At this point, why bother getting an ARM laptop with questionable software compatibility when I can easily get any x86-powered Windows gaming laptop with far better performance and software compatibility.

[FanboyXTRM]

When it first came out the M1 ARM CPU was a qualitative change compared to X86 Macs and delivered much better performance per watt. But the performance gains Apple has been pushing since have outstripped improvements in the architecture and the process node which once again lead to increases in TDP. So I guess the question is would you rather have the extra performance on tap or not. The base M4 CPU will certainly draw a lot less power than an M4 Pro or M4 Max and give you more predictable battery life.

Both Intel and AMD have made up for some of the efficiency gap since the M1 and that is surely good for everyone. In my opinion Apple still maintains an edge here but it's not as pronounced as it used to be.

As for Toortle's comments: I'm not sure what you're trying to prove here. There are always people who are able and willing to pay more for a subjectively 'better' experience. And what 'better' means is up to them to decide, perceived value is in the eye of the beholder. I could do my job on a $1000 Windows laptop but I appreciate my $3000+ MacBook enough to justify the cost.