While the MacBook Air under Apple Silicon does tick all the boxes, there will always be a group who will want the “Pro” branding as part of the experience… Even if other options are superior, they’ll pay for the name. It’s clearly not a “professional’” MacBook Pro in the way the 14-inch and 16-inch models are, but it does put a MacBook Pro branded laptop within easier reach of consumers. MORE FOR YOU Google Issues Warning For 2 Billion Chrome Users Forget The MacBook Pro, Apple Has Bigger Plans Google Discounts Pixel 6, Nest & Pixel Buds In Limited-Time Sale Event The 13-inch MacBook Pro does have a space in terms of marketing, though. It should offer better value for money than the larger MacBook pro models, but it's the MacBook Air that carries the new design cues and modern touches, not the smaller MacBook Pro. It should deliver more performance than the MacBook Air thanks to the active cooling of the M2 chipset, but it still falls short of the M1 Pro and M1 Max in the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models from 2021. Yet Apple has kept this consumer-focused MacBook Pro around for at least another two years, sitting awkwardly between the consumers' MacBook Air and the professionals' MacBook Pro. There’s a feeling that Apple’s product team has done little more than move from Intel to Apple Silicon and said “that'll do” before focusing on the rest of the MacBook portfolio.
The M2 MacBook Pro remains a throwback to the Intel designs of 2016 you have a screen with expansive bezels, a lack of I/O ports, the technically impressive but almost dead-on-arrival Touch Bar, and more. With the broadly equivalent M2 MacBook Air models priced at $1199 and $1499, has Best Buy signalled where the 13-inch MacBook Pro belongs in the portfolio? It feels that way to me. The recently announced and time-limited offers at US retailer Best Buy take the entry-level 256 GB M2 MacBook Pro to $1099 and the 512 GB model to $1299. Does this mean the entry-level MacBook Pro is worth considering, even with its flaws? Izmir, Turkey - Half opened Apple Macbook Pro laptop computer with purple and blue colored lights getty As with almost every computer on the market, the M2 MacBook Pro is going to be able to deliver the basics a solid web browser to work with almost every online service you can think of, tools for reading, creating, and editing office documents, social network clients for the likes Slack and Discord, and so on. Got it! Jul 30, 2022, 06:30pm EDT | New! Click on the conversation bubble to join the conversation Got it! Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin A scant few weeks after the launch of Apple’s M2-powered MacBook Pro, retailers are offering discounts of up to $200 on the new macOS laptop. Storyteller exploring digital worlds, mobile, music and podcasting New! Follow this author to improve your content experience. Consumer Tech Forget The New MacBook Pro, Apple Has Something Better Ewan Spence Senior Contributor Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own.
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