Apple 2024 MacBook Pro Laptop with M4 Pro chip with 12-core CPU and 16-core GPU: Built for Apple Intelligence, 14.2-inch Liquid Retina XDR Display, 24GB Unified Memory; 512GB SSD Storage; Space Black

I abandoned Apple years ago, but the M1 chip convinced me to give it another chance. The M4 is even better. I upgraded from the 16-inch M1 to the M4, and while it’s more portable, the 16-inch has a better screen real estate and sound. As expected from an M SOC Mac, it’s great. The build quality is excellent, with every detail nicely crafted. The screen, though not OLED, is great and better than most laptops. Performance is excellent, with great memory management. I can run many applications and heavy software development tools without high memory pressure. It does all this while on battery, which is incredible. You won’t get this with heavy video editing, but it’s still great performance and more battery life than any other notebook. The keyboard is comfortable to type with good key travel, and the touchpad is one of the few in the industry that’s usable. However, it’s an expensive laptop, and there’s no competition that offers the same at a lower price.

Good battery life, performance and overall good product

A grand machine. The acoustics are simply incredible, I am still stunned when I hear the sound coming out from it. Anything, even EastEnders I dare say will sound fabulous. ...and then there's the rest of it. A polished design with obviously a lot of thought gone into it. I have yet to explore it's further reaches, but it is first class for post processing photography. Mac users say they are machines that are worth the investment, keeping you good for 10 years.

I use MacBooks for professional and important work. I got this Mac to replace my i7 32GB 16 inch 512GB 2019 Mac. I’m summary I’m 100% pleased with the M4 Pro after using it for a while. It feels 75% faster. Which is a lot and I feel a clear sense of speed enhancement as I work fast and feel minimal drag. It’s fast, sleek, responsive, secure, and very capable to handle big demands. details: I use it for frontend, backend, and AI software development as well as project management to name a few. Xcode is known for being a hungry beast - it needs huge performance especially now with hot loading (instantly showing your work). As an iOS engineer I don’t have much choice but to use macOS. But I’m fine with that as each iteration of MacBooks has given a better experience of creating software. macOS gives me confidence in data security, privacy, fast and long lasting technology. It looks and feels great. The finger swipes make developing much easier allowing multiple screens that you navigate by a simple swipe. I also feel the keys are positioned fluidly for quick typing. It’s quite, the weight feels good, like you’re money is well spent. There’s no noise despite high demanding apps running. The colour is sleek as is the design. I like large screens but the 14 inch feels good. My only gripe is the text is so small. While I was able to increase text through settings and apps - the os text remained tiny so I had to keep the resolution on the default size. That’s not great as the real estate really helps with side by side work. But it’s far from a deal breaker. Again I use macs only for professional or private security conscious work. Entertainment is not the forte - there are cheaper and better performing machines.

Very expensive but very, very good. I've had Macbooks for many many years, they all last a good 10 years before the software makes them obsolete (but my 20 years old MB Pro still works perfectly as a stand alone device) which for a computer is just outstanding. I fell out with Bill's rubbish years ago as I always spent the first 20 minutes of using a PC, fixing it and downloading 3000 updates before I could actually do any work. The Mac is so much more reliable and productive. Yes Apple can be restrictive and over monetise everything to death and prematurely get rid of features and hardware you desperately need far too soon but at least if you pay through the nose or 'use their solution' it does actually work and you don't spend all day fighting the kin thing. They just need to remember some if us live in backwaters with dreadful internet and use a pile of legacy hardware because we're not filthy rich and we don't live in Cupertino. High quality, ruthless profit organisation but you'll buy three Windows machines to one Apple so it gets my vote.

Absolutely love it. Been using MACs and Macbooks for years and this one is the best yet. The build quality, screen, battery life and keyboard are impeccable and it chews through all the stuff I want to do - Final Cut, Lightroom, Affinity Suite, Logic Pro and Xcode - without breaking a sweat. Why only four stars then you may say? I am knocking a star off because, let's face it, the cost is completely outrageous. I got the 14" version with M4 with the Pro chip, 24G of RAM and a 512G hard disk. Apple charge £1749 for that in the UK which is utterly insane. Worse still, I'd have loved the 1TB version but that is a colossal £380 more. Seriously Apple, £380 for an extra 512TB????!!!!!!! I get it that it's a captive audience if you are buying a Macbook anyway but that price is completely mental. So a great computer. But boy do you pay through the nose for it.