The latest 14-inch MacBook Pro is here and is awesome, and I've found a MacBook deal that's hard to beat.
The MacBook Pro 14-inch (M2 Pro/512GB) is $1,799 at Amazon right now. This is the lowest price I've ever seen for the 2023 MacBook Pro with the M2 Pro chip, and it makes the new MacBook Pro a seriously tempting purchase for power users. You can also get this deal at B&H Photo.
To put it simply, the MacBook Pro M2 Pro offers incredibly fast performance and makes our list of the best laptops for this reason.
The 12-core CPU, 38-core GPU MacBook Pro M2 Pro model we tested blazed through tough tasks like transcoding 4K video. If you're a professional photo or video editor, the MacBook Pro M2 Pro could seriously boost your output. The display on the MacBook Pro M2 Pro looks impressive too — it has a 120Hz ProMotion refresh rate and up to 1,447 nits of brightness when viewing HDR content.
Even though it packs so much power, this laptop's battery life isn't compromised. We got 14 hours of life out of our review unit.
While Apple laptops aren't known for their gaming performance, we had a great time gaming on the MacBook Pro M2 Pro. We wouldn't recommend the MacBook Pro M2 Pro solely as a gaming machine, but if you want to play titles optimized for Apple hardware, you can't go wrong.
The MacBook Pro M2 Pro is definitely faster than the previous MacBook Pro with M1. But in practice, we didn't find the difference in performance between the M1 Pro and the M2 Pro chips to be huge. M1 Pro users might want to wait a year or so before splurging on the latest MacBook. For everyone else, the MacBook Pro M2 Pro is the high-end Apple laptop to get.
Now that the MacBook Pro M2 Pro has hit its lowest price ever, it's a great time to pick one up.
