Poll: *** The official 2021 14" and 16" Macbook Pro thread (it has an SD slot and everything!) ***

[GMac11]

I've never been more intrigued to see benchmark/performance reviews for a product. They normally bore the pants off me and I rarely find any of it useful, however, with this effectively being a completely new product (existing M1 chip aside) I really want to see where it all stacks up. Although I've plumped for the base 16" I'm really looking forward to seeing how the base 14" measures up with the 8/14 core solution.

 

[Rilot]

I think the 8/14 will still be very fast indeed. As I said earlier in the thread, the M1 13" is already extremely fast. The 8/14 has 50% more performance cores than the M1 and 75% more GPU cores. Add to that the increased memory bandwidth of the M1 Pro and I reckon it will still be a monster of a laptop.

 

[n111ck]

The EduStore offerings are up - very tempting prices for those that are eligible.

Yep £330 off the 14" - really don't need one but will probably be my last opportunity to get the discount so why not..

 

[GMac11]

Yep £330 off the 14" - really don't need one but will probably be my last opportunity to get the discount so why not..

I actually cancelled my 16” order with Apple and picked one up from them. A slightly longer wait time but I’ll take it for the near £200 savings.

 

[n111ck]

Given the power on offer there should really be no need for me to even think about upgrading for a good few years now..

 

[smokedog]

I actually cancelled my 16” order with Apple and picked one up from them. A slightly longer wait time but I’ll take it for the near £200 savings.

I miss the days when you could access the HE from a link. I don't have HE access so had to order from an Apple Reseller who are offering 5% off and TopCashBack so got around £150 off.

 

[Feek]

I miss the days when you could access the HE from a link. I don't have HE access so had to order from an Apple Reseller who are offering 5% off and TopCashBack so got around £150 off.

Unfortunately that’s why they stopped it, it was abused by far too many of us. I have access to an employee discount scheme via my wife but it’s a small discount and not all products are included. My M1 MBA was but I don’t think the new ones are.

 

[Jimbeam3678]

I remember having a discussion on here with someone years ago saying I was lying about those links I can still get 10% off but nothing like the 20%+ you used to get

 

[JGBR]

or you should not be getting discount as not in HE, to be honest the discount isn't that great.

 

[Rilot]

I still get the discount because I work in education. It’s not as good as it used to be but it’s still decent.

 

[Feek]

I still get the discount because I work in education. It’s not as good as it used to be but it’s still decent.

Does it still come with three years full Applecare included? That was one of the very nice touches.

 

[Dangerous Dave]

If you have access to an ac.uk address better to go through the edustore they are offering 20% off and a 4 year warranty.

 

[MacRS4]

Until about 18 months ago I used to be able to login to my business account with a small-ish discount, then verify via unidays to the Edu store and double discount whammy. That doesn't work any more.

 

[MacRS4]

Does it still come with three years full Applecare included? That was one of the very nice touches.

Mine hasn't, had to buy separately.

 

[silvagti]

Ordered the base 16 Pro, wanted 32GB, my current 2015 Mac has 16GB but that upgrade is a crazy £400 option, almost 25% cost of the 16 Pro.

That's my feeling. Would have been tempted to go for the 32gb option at £200 for future proofing but £400 is too much to consider IMO unless you absolutely need that much memory right now..

Likewise storage upgrades seem mostly unnecessary as well given we have the SD card slot back.

 

[Deleted member 209350]

M1 Max GPU performance around the level of the RTX 3060 mobile it seems, though not sure which variant of the max it is and how many cores its running (24 or 32core are the only options for m1 max gpu)

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Geek-...ending-on-considered-benchmarks.574178.0.html

 

[JGBR]

Note apple used 32GB unified ram in all the Pro's for GPU benchmarks and 64GB with Max's......

 

[silvagti]

Note apple used 32GB unified ram in all the Pro's for GPU benchmarks and 64GB with Max's......

Guess all will become clear in a couple of days when independent benchmarks are out from folk who have their hands on the device.

 

[Rilot]

Note apple used 32GB unified ram in all the Pro's for GPU benchmarks and 64GB with Max's......

That will be because memory bandwidth is doubled with the additional RAM.

 

[HACO]

That will be because memory bandwidth is doubled with the additional RAM.

Both 32 and 64GB configs of M1 Max are 8-channel 400GB/s. Both 16 and 32GB configs of M1 Pro are 4-channel 200GB/s.