Apple MacBook Pro 16 In (2023)

The M3 chips give the already brilliant MacBook Pro series a boost in games with no sacrifices elsewhere, so power users who are happy with Apple must grapple with the big decisions:

It’s fair to say that the roll-out of Apple Silicon has gone better than Apple could have anticipated. But while the M1 and its more powerful brethren, the M1 Pro, M1 Max, and M1 Ultra, each raised the bar in its own way, showing just how far Apple was willing to push the ARM-based SOC paradigm, we’ve now settled into the usual upgrade cycle. Each subsequent release for the foreseeable future will likely be more of an evolution than a revolution, with the occasional jump along the way whenever Apple employs a new process node.

The M2 series of chips fall squarely into that “evolutionary” category. As Ben showed in his review of the MacBook Pro 14 with M2 Pro, you can expect modest performance jumps across the board, a nice little I/O bump, HDMI 2.1, and the same unrivaled efficiency that we saw with the 2021 models.

However, the MacBook Pro 16 with M2 Max that we’re testing today is different in one important way: it’s the most powerful (and expensive) laptop that Apple sells, with more GPU cores and more RAM than any MacBook we’ve ever tested.

The latest MacBook Pro 16 is more of an evolution than a revolution, but the option for a 38-core GPU and 96GB of unified memory makes it a seriously powerful machine.