Macworld
While most of Apple’s “Scary Fast” event was predictable, there were a couple of surprises. The first was Space Black, which is easily Apple’s best laptop color in years. The new 14-inch MacBook Pro, priced at $1,599 to replace the 13″ M2 MacBook Pro, was also introduced.
At first glance, this seems like an amazing deal. The new design comes with a larger ProMotion Display, an HDMI port 2.1, and an SD reader. All for $100 more than before, but with the same amount of storage. It gets more confusing when you look at the whole picture. The 15-inch MacBook Air with 512GB of storage costs $1,499 but you don’t get ProMotion or the extra ports. The M2 chip is slower at the moment but it should be upgraded in a few months.
That’s a tricky decision (and that’s before you get into the debate over a Pro machine having 8GB of RAM). The Air has a bigger screen, but the Pro’s 14-inch display has HDR and ProMotion. The Pro has an HDMI port that the Air doesn’t, but the base M chip limits both laptops to a single external display with up to 6K resolution at 60Hz. The Air is smaller but bigger all around, and they are both…
