Apple mac which one to buy

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Which Mac is
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MacBook Air

8-core

Up to 16GB
unified memory

Maximum configurable storage 1

Up to 18 hours battery life 3

720p FaceTime HD camera

1.29kg

MacBook Pro 13”

8-core

Up to 16GB
unified memory

Maximum configurable storage 1

Up to 20 hours battery life 4

720p FaceTime HD camera

Touch Bar and Touch ID

MacBook Pro 14” and 16”

Apple M1 Pro chip or
Apple M1 Max chip

10-core

32-core

Up to 64GB
unified memory

Maximum configurable storage 1

14.2” or 16.2”

Liquid Retina XDR display 2

Up to 21 hours battery life 5

1080p FaceTime HD camera

1.6kg or 2.1kg

iMac 24”

8-core

Up to 16GB unified memory

Maximum configurable storage 1

1080p FaceTime HD camera

Configurable with Magic Keyboard with Touch ID and Numeric Keypad

iMac 27”

Up to Intel Core i9

10-core

Radeon Pro 5700 XT GPU

Up to 128GB memory

Maximum configurable storage 1

1080p FaceTime HD camera

Configurable with Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad

Mac Pro

Intel Xeon W processor

28-core

Radeon Pro W6800X Duo GPU

Up to 1.5TB memory

Maximum configurable storage 1

Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad

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Also available with Intel Core i5 or i7 processor

8-core

Up to 16GB unified memory 8

Maximum configurable storage 1

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Built-in Apps

Powerful creativity and productivity tools live inside every Mac — apps that help you explore, connect and work more efficiently.

Safari has innovative features that let you enjoy more of the web. In even more ways. Built-in privacy features help protect your information and keep your Mac secure. An updated start page helps you easily and quickly save, find and share your favourite sites. And Siri suggestions indicate bookmarks, links from your reading list, iCloud Tabs, links you receive in Messages and more.

Keep your growing library organised and accessible. Perfect your images and create beautiful gifts for sharing. And with iCloud Photos, you can store a lifetime’s worth of photos and videos in the cloud.

Tell stories like never before. A simple design and intuitive editing features make it easy to create beautiful 4K movies and Hollywood-style trailers.

The easiest way to create great-sounding songs on your Mac. With an intuitive interface and access to a complete sound library, it’s never been easier to learn, play, record and share music like a pro.

This powerful word processor gives you everything you need to create documents that look beautiful. And read beautifully. It lets you work seamlessly across Mac, iOS and iPadOS devices. And work effortlessly with people who use Microsoft Word.

Create sophisticated spreadsheets with dramatic interactive charts, tables and images that paint a revealing picture of your data. Work seamlessly across Mac, iOS and iPadOS devices. And work effortlessly with people who use Microsoft Excel.

Bring your ideas to life with beautiful presentations. Employ powerful tools and dazzling effects that keep your audience engaged. Work seamlessly across Mac, iOS and iPadOS devices. And work effortlessly with people who use Microsoft PowerPoint.

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For professionals ready to push their creativity, these industry-leading apps offer maximum control over editing, processing and output of music and film.

Logic Pro puts a complete recording and MIDI production studio on your Mac, with everything you need to write, record, edit and mix like never before. And with a huge collection of fully featured plug-ins along with thousands of sounds and loops, you’ll have everything you need to go from first inspiration to final master, no matter what kind of music you want to create.

Take your Mac to the stage with a full-screen interface optimised for live performance, flexible hardware control, and a massive collection of plug-ins and sounds that are fully compatible with Logic Pro.

Built to meet the needs of today’s creative editors, Final Cut Pro offers revolutionary video editing, powerful media organisation and incredible performance, optimised for Mac computers and macOS Monterey.

Motion is a powerful motion graphics tool that makes it easy to create cinematic 2D and 3D titles, fluid transitions and realistic effects in real time.

Add power and flexibility for exporting projects from Final Cut Pro. Customise output settings, work faster with distributed encoding, and easily package your film for the iTunes Store.

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The Best MacBooks

We’ve removed our MacBook upgrade pick, the 16-inch 2019 MacBook Pro, due to the 2021 release of the updated MacBook Pro. We will update the guide after testing.

October 18, 2021

The best Mac laptop for most people is the 13-inch MacBook Air with Apple’s M1 processor. It’s more than fast enough for the things most people use a computer for—web browsing, working on documents, and light photo and video editing—but the M1 even handles professional work like 3D rendering or compiling code pretty quickly. Plus, it has a great keyboard and trackpad, a colorful high-resolution screen, and outstanding battery life.

Our pick

Apple MacBook Air (2020, M1)

A well-balanced MacBook

The MacBook Air has a comfortable keyboard, good performance, and a reasonable amount of storage—things that haven’t always been true of previous MacBook Airs.

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Recommended configuration

Processor:	Eight-core Apple M1 CPU	Storage:	256 GB SSD
Graphics:	Seven-core Apple M1 GPU	Screen:	2560×1600 IPS
Memory:	8 GB	Tested battery life:	14.4 hours

We recommend the basic $1,000 version of the MacBook Air, which has enough speed, memory, and storage for most day-to-day computer tasks. Apple’s new M1 processor is much faster than the low-power Intel processors in previous MacBook Airs, and its battery life is so good that you should almost never need to charge it during the day if you don’t want to. And unlike previous MacBook Air models, the M1 version doesn’t require a cooling fan, which keeps it dead silent even when you’re maxing out the processor by exporting a video or playing a game. Like its predecessor, the M1 version of the Air includes a much-improved keyboard with a deeper, more satisfying feel and improved reliability compared with MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models released between 2016 and 2019. The only downside is that some Mac apps that run well on Intel Macs haven’t yet been optimized for the Apple M1 chip, and you might notice some performance lag until those apps are updated.

The Air includes only two USB-C ports (which support Thunderbolt 3) plus a headphone jack—but Thunderbolt 3 docks and USB-C hubs and adapters are common enough and inexpensive enough that this isn’t as big of a problem as it used to be. The Air also omits the older MacBook Pro’s (situationally useful but largely unnecessary) Touch Bar in favor of a row of physical function keys and a standalone Touch ID fingerprint sensor.

Our pick

13-inch MacBook Pro (2020, M1)

Better performance, unbeatable battery life

If you do processor-intensive work like video editing and app development but don’t want to deal with the extra size and weight of the 16-inch Pro, the $1,500 version of the 13-inch MacBook Pro is a big step up from the Air.

Buying Options

*At the time of publishing, the price was $1,300 .

Recommended configuration

Processor:	Eight-core Apple M1 CPU	Storage:	256 GB SSD
Graphics:	Eight-core Apple M1 GPU	Screen:	2560×1600 IPS
Memory:	16 GB	Tested battery life:	18.4 hours

If you regularly do the kind of tasks that use all the processing power you can throw at them, like encoding high-definition video and developing and compiling iOS, the $1,500 version of the 13-inch Pro is a worthwhile upgrade over the Air. You won’t notice the difference for everyday browsing and document editing, but the cooling fan in the Pro allows its M1 chip to run faster for longer, providing 10% to 20% more performance than the Air when compiling code, exporting video, or doing anything else that uses all the processor’s cores for more than a few minutes. The configuration we recommend has the same improved keyboard as other recent MacBook models, uses a Touch Bar instead of typical function keys, and includes double the memory of the MacBook Air we recommend, which is useful if you edit large photos or high-resolution videos. You can add more internal storage if you like, though external SSDs are more economical than Apple’s storage upgrades.

Our pick

Apple MacBook Air (2020, M1)

A well-balanced MacBook

The MacBook Air has a comfortable keyboard, good performance, and a reasonable amount of storage—things that haven’t always been true of previous MacBook Airs.

Buying Options

Costco membership required — delayed shipping

Our pick

13-inch MacBook Pro (2020, M1)

Better performance, unbeatable battery life

Buying Options

*At the time of publishing, the price was $1,300 .

The research

Why you should trust us

Andrew Cunningham has been testing, reviewing, and otherwise writing about PCs, Macs, and other gadgets for AnandTech, Ars Technica, and Wirecutter since 2011. He has been building, upgrading, and fixing PCs for more than 15 years, and he spent five of those years in IT departments buying and repairing laptops and desktops as well as helping people buy the best tech for their needs. He has also used every Mac laptop that Apple has released over the past two decades.

Who this is for, and when to buy

The best reason to buy a MacBook is that you need or prefer macOS to Windows. The operating system is stable and easy to use, but more important, it integrates well with iPhones and iPads—for example, iMessages and SMS messages sent from your Mac also appear on your iPhone and vice versa, and features such as AirDrop and iCloud make it easy to share notes, pictures, videos, reminders, contacts, passwords, bookmarks, and other data between your devices.

Macs are also a good choice if you want great support. Apple’s tech support is routinely rated above that of most if not all other PC and phone makers, and Apple Stores and Apple authorized service providers offer accessible in-person tech support and repairs in many locations.

And MacBooks that use Apple processors (or “Apple silicon”) instead of Intel processors are better than Intel MacBooks and most Windows laptops in some key ways. Apple’s processors have much better performance and faster graphics, and they get stellar battery life. Their batteries are also less prone to draining quickly when you’re using an energy-hogging app like Zoom or Google Chrome.

Macs aren’t a great choice if you have less than $1,000 to spend on a laptop, if you want to run high-end games, or if you want to be able to make upgrades or repairs yourself. Windows ultrabooks provide decent performance and more kinds of ports at or below the price Apple charges for the MacBook Air. Budget Chrome OS and Windows laptops are a better choice if you have only $500 to spend, while business laptops make it easier to fix and upgrade components over time. And Windows gaming notebooks and pro laptops, while typically large and bulky, usually have newer and faster dedicated graphics processors than Apple’s laptops do (and you can buy some of them for less than half of what a 16-inch MacBook Pro costs).

The Best Laptops

From budget-friendly options to thin-and-light ultrabooks to powerful gaming laptops, we’ve spent hundreds of hours finding the best laptops for most people.

If you need a new laptop today, you should buy one instead of waiting around for Apple to release a new one—it’s difficult to predict when or how often the company will release new hardware. But Apple is currently in the process of phasing out Macs with Intel processors in favor of its own, which (at least in our testing so far) offer dramatically improved performance and battery life compared with the old Intel models. According to Apple, it will take until sometime in 2022 for all the Intel Macs to be replaced. Right now, if the Mac you want includes an Apple processor, it’s safe to buy. If it uses an Intel processor, buy it if you need it, but wait if you can.

Once a Mac has been available for a few months, you can save a substantial amount by buying from Apple’s refurbished store. Apple-refurbished products look and work the same as new ones and have the exact same warranties, including optional AppleCare coverage, so buying one is a great way to save a few hundred dollars. If you’re looking to buy a particular configuration, the third-party Refurb Tracker site can alert you when specific models are in stock.

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