The M1 MacBook Pro 13 has the same beautiful build as its Intel predecessor, but its new Apple Silicon processor grants it incredible speed and efficiency. This is hours ahead of our previous battery life records. However, the true miracle lies in its 14-hour battery life when using Google Chrome.
Apart from its blazing speeds in single and multi-core performance, its integrated graphics are actually a bit ahead of both AMD- and Intel-based machines (although the graphics performance is still a far cry from that seen from discrete GPUs like the AMD Radeon and Nvidia GeForce RTX cards). The M1 MacBook Pro 13 is undoubtedly the best MacBook Pro 13 we’ve seen in a long time.
For the stragglers still running on x86 architecture, Apple’s new Rosetta2 emulator does a fantastic job of providing a seamless experience for users-most people won’t even notice that apps like Steam aren’t running natively on the M1 Macs. We thankfully saw many companies (such as Google, Adobe, and Blizzard) rushing to release M1 versions of their software right at launch, and native support has only gotten better since.
When the new M1 Macs came out in November, we were impressed with their performance specs but also worried that the new ARM-based processors would have compatibility issues with many older, x86 based apps that users have come to love on MacOS. The new M1 MacBook Pro 13 might be the best laptop Apple has ever made.