Apple 2024 MacBook Pro Laptop with M4 chip with 10‑core CPU and 10‑core GPU: Built for Apple Intelligence, 14.2-inch Liquid Retina XDR Display, 16GB Unified Memory, 512GB SSD Storage; Space Black

The Apple 2024 MacBook Pro with M4 Pro chip is a powerhouse laptop that combines cutting-edge performance with sleek design. Featuring a 14-core CPU, 20-core GPU, and 24GB of unified memory, it handles demanding workflows like video editing, 3D rendering, and coding with ease. The 14.2-inch Liquid Retina XDR display offers stunning visuals with vibrant colors and exceptional brightness, perfect for creative professionals. With up to 22 hours of battery life and a robust suite of ports, including Thunderbolt 5 and HDMI, it’s both versatile and efficient. The Space Black finish adds a premium touch to this already exceptional device. A top-tier choice for pros and enthusiasts alike!

Best macbook I've had yet, including four in the past for work. Just added a 15-in-1 adapter for a bunch of various USB, hard drives and monitors, etc. Apple really knows how to handle new computer setup, too. Open it up, sign in, a few options, and you're up and running in less than five minutes.Love the darker color. Super fast. Plows through video rendering that would frequently crash my aging PC in no time. Takes some serious extended processing to even trigger the fan, so it's almost always silent. And when the fan does go into high gear, it's still VERY quiet.

This Mac is the most incredible Mac I've ever owned. It's the most powerful, light weight, perfect tool for all of the video, audio, and graphic work that I do. I'm over-the-top excited about this Mac!

Very fast laptop, very long battery life. For the graphically interesting games natively compatible with it, very good graphics performance. The display is amazing and is capable of twice as many pixels as it shows you. It was a good value in a Black Friday sale (~$1400), but this (M4 Pro 12/16) chip is on par with or under performance of the prior generation M3 Max 14”, so if it can get one of those for a good deal refurbished or open box, there is no shame in it. As with all M1/2/3/4s, there are dedicated neural cores for Apple Intelligence to run, which allows for a personalized Siri who listens to you and watches you all the time, without sharing this information. You can disable Apple Intelligence and Siri, but after I got past the creepiness, I configured Siri as an Irish Female, and it makes everything lovely. There is a lot of integration with other Apple devices, like you can operate your iphone from a distance on your MacBook. You can also receive texts and Messages from your iPhone, and easily use it for tethering, as a substitute for your webcam (the webcam is pretty solid nonetheless). This model supports linking hearing aids and also supports airpods much in the same way the iPhone does. You can easily use your living room TV as a second monitor on the fly, and if you can plug in via HDMI, you can get the whole 4K@120hz. MacOSX is a great operating system, built on Unix, and with tons of room for customization for beginners to super users. Time Machine backups with your own plug-in hard drives and iCloud are incredibly convenient. Safari gets better and better, but the Mac versions of Chromium and Firefox also dazzle.For most programs that aren’t games, macOSX is widely supported, but if you just *need* it, parallels desktop and vmware can run windows for you.New users ought to pay close attention to Tips and go into settings and learn all the trackpad gestures. You won’t want to come back to a different trackpad, and until you want to game, you will not care to use a mouse.Anyway, I got this for my wife as a gift, partly because she needed a new computer and partly because I wanted to convert her. She seems pretty converted.

This computer is amazing on so many levels it’s crazy! The speed, display picture and detail are amazing. The 14inch monitor screen feels so much bigger than what you see while you’re working on it! The M4 chip is really amazing as it captures my stream

The media could not be loaded. Got this because I am doing a whole lot more of everything: editing pictures, writing music, rendering videos, recording audio, and studying.Appearance:The screen is SO MUCH better than the M1 13-inch, and that extra-inch difference makes a difference when I am split-screening windows. The ports are nice to have, especially the SD card slot. I always used to carry around 2 dongles or USB-C hubs with me. Now I don't have to (unless I have to somehow use a VGA port for presentations or USB-A to connect wired mouse/keyboard).Transition:If you have a Thunderbolt 3 or 4 cable, just connect that between your old MacBook to the new one and set the old one to Migration Assistant in Utilities. The process was so fast at about 1.7 GB/s, and I had 200GB out of the 256GB old storage.Storage:Having a 512GB base storage is so nice compared to juggling with 256GB the last 4 years. The M1 MacBook Air is/was an excellent budget laptop during grad school even with the base 256GB storage. However, I'd always struggle to offload and download files when I got more photography gigs, especially dealing with RAW files. I averaged 200GB on and off, so seeing that I am still less than half of the 512GB storage now is comforting.RAM:The 16GB of RAM flies through my workload with ease. No more "Swap Use" Memory from the former 8GB RAM I had, which is a plus. I throw all sorts of demanding tasks including Google Chrome, LightRoom, Ableton + Nexus, LogicPro, FruityLoops Studio, etc. Still under the 16GB usage.My thoughts:Typing this on the new M4 MacBook Pro, and it is noticeably a better experience for my productivity and day-to-day workloads. This isn't even the "M4 Pro" or the "M4 Max," and I am happy with it. Worth every penny.Overall, this is perfect for anyone who is a student, a creator, an artist, or anyone who just loves the efficiency and convenience of being in the macOS atmosphere. Worth.