Here’s why M4 MacBook Pro is one of the best upgrades you can make right now

Last October, Apple announced the M4 MacBook Pro. On the surface, it looks like yet another MacBook Pro spec bump. However, there are a number of key features that make it worth upgrading to, even if you already have an older 14″ MacBook Pro. Why M4? There’s recently been a pretty big flip in MacBook Pro pricing, which gradually took place over the past year or so: First, Apple introduced a new entry-level MacBook Pro at $1599 in 2023 with baseline M3 Then, it upped the base memory to 16GB and removed some of the biggest compromises with M4 Those two events, in short, mean that you can now buy a MacBook Pro with 512GB of storage and 16GB of memory for $1599 directly from Apple, which previously started at $1999. Sure, you won’t be buying a Pro chip at that price. In my opinion though, all of the upsides outweigh that one loss. Far better battery life Without having a Pro chip, you’re able to take a huge leap in battery life. Baseline Apple Silicon is a lot more power efficient. ... Read full article.