2023-07-16 10:30:00
From the €1,199 MacBook Air M1 to the €2,999 16″ MacBook Pro, Apple offers a very coherent family of laptops. This is all the more the case since the arrival of the 15″ MacBook Air. which fits naturally between the Air 13″ M2 and the Pro 14″. Finally, there is still an anomaly in this range: what is the MacBook Pro 13 “still doing here?
Still marketed from €1,599, the 13″ MacBook Pro costs as much as the new 15″ MacBook Air without having as large a screen or a modern design. The design of the 13″ Pro indeed dates back to 2016, a grim era when Apple believed the Touch Bar would revolutionize interactions and no one would miss the MagSafe plug.
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Admittedly, the crippling faults of the machine have been corrected over time: the butterfly keyboard flew away to everyone’s greatest relief and the sluggish Intel processors were replaced by the fabulous M1 and then M2 chips. The fact remains that the 13 “MacBook Pro is today the ugly duckling in the MacBook family.
Compared to the 13″ MacBook Air M2 with which it shares the same chip, the 13″ Pro is thicker and heavier, has a noticeably poorer webcam and less advanced speakers, lacks a MagSafe socket nor fast charging… and it costs 300 € more. Why keep this computer that has a foot in the past when the MacBook Air M2 is a real success?
There are a few arguments in its favour, but they don’t really hold water. If it has detractors – I include myself in it – it must be recognized that the Touch Bar also has its fans. However, the 13″ Pro is the last Mac to include it. But this is precisely where the problem is: developers no longer have any reason to adapt their applications for an increasingly minority feature. Apple itself- even has been uninterested in its Touch Bar for years.
MacBook Pro M2. Image Apple.
The second justification is the longer battery life of the 13″ Pro. So yes, it can stay on for two hours longer than the MacBook Air in video playback, but we’re talking regarding two hours out of a total of 20 hours! The MacBook Air’s 18 hours of battery life is already more than enough in many cases, and in a way that difference is nil if you take advantage of the Air’s 160g less battery life. accompanied by a small external battery.
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