While a laptop like the MacBook Air can get away with this on account of its super-thin portability, a MacBook 'Pro' should place greater emphasis on usability and practicality - factors which simply can't be satisfied by just two Type-C ports, one of which is required for the charger. Its selection of physical ports is, frankly, appalling. However unlike some previous MacBook Pros, the 13-inch M2 Pro isn't something we can unreservedly recommend. Even the Touch Bar is a welcome inclusion for us, though likely not for everyone. It's also an exquisite item in its own right, with top-notch build quality, a sublime screen and surprisingly decent sound quality. It's got impressive reserves of raw performance, but also offers a wonderfully smooth, effortless computing experience when you're not demanding every ounce of firepower. If you're after an ultra-portable, yet high-performing laptop that can take on pretty much any image or video editing task you could throw at it, the M2 MacBook Pro is well worth considering.
Of course there's no getting around the fact that the speaker drivers are inevitably small and therefore cannot produce any real bass, but listening to music on the 'Pro's built-in speakers is still a surprisingly pleasing experience. The M2 Pro's sound processing produces a particularly expansive effect that results in a sound stage far larger than you'd expect from such a compact laptop. Realistically a separate dongle will therefore be required, at a hefty extra expense if you go for Apple's own USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter, and carrying this around will somewhat negate the slim form factor of the laptop itself.Īnother laptop performance metric that often receives little attention is audio quality. Given that one of these is required to connect the charger, this leaves you with just a single port for connecting peripherals. However, while the slimness may be great news for portability, it does result in pathetic physical connectivity: just two Thunderbolt/USB 4 Type-C ports. Despite being so slim, Apple's build quality is sublime as usual, with no discernible flex or creaks in the device.
At 1.4kg light and 1.56cm in thickness, it's barely more than the 1.24kg/1.13cm M2 MacBook Air.
Build and HandlingĪs we've come to expect from modern MacBook Pro's, this is an exceptionally svelte and portable machine. The only potential drawback is the relatively small 13.3 inch size, which regardless of the high resolution could still prove uncomfortably small for longer image/video editing sessions. This is an IPS LCD panel capable of a high 500-nit maximum brightness and extensive DCI-P3 color space coverage.
Storage ranges between 256GB and 2TB, but most impressive for photographers is the gorgeous 13.3-inch 2560 x 1600 Retina display. (Image credit: Future) (opens in new tab)
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