Review: The fastest of the M4 MacBook Pros might be the least interesting one

Nice machines, but $600 for an extra 16GB of ram and an extra 512GB of storage is theft.<p>My new AMD linux laptop compiles my projects faster than my old M1, and that&#x27;s good enough for me. It has 32GB of ram, 4tb of storage, and was half the price of the equivalent Macbook. Apple may make the best laptops right now, but other manufacturers are closing the gap.

This solidifies my satisfaction with my choice of a mid-spec’d M4 Pro to replace my M1 Air. I wanted more RAM, so I went with the middle option with 24 GB. Similarly, I mostly care about single-core performance, so the Max didn’t seem like a huge deal.<p>I’m still getting used to the weight of a 14” Pro vs. a 13” Air, but the additional screen size is terrific.<p>The only thing I’m unsure about is the matte screen option. I saw screenshots that seemed as though contrast gets blown out, so I kept the glossy. I’ve seen others say at normal laptop viewing angles, this is not the case.

It&#x27;s always worth remembering that a year from now the media will be breathlessly talking about the M5 Macs. These M4 ones are fantastic machines and are a great upgrade for many, and it is nice to see the yearly progress. But most people who already have Apple Silicon computers should probably wait at least another year.

&gt; RAM upgrades across the whole lineup. This particularly benefits the $1,599 M4 MacBook Air, which jumps from 8GB to 16GB<p>The MacBook Air is still an M3 only as the highest end M-processor.

I find the cinebench benchmarks meh, every YouTuber and every publisher uses it, few YouTubers do more of a practical test which is quite more useful. I would like to see a comparison with older models as most people that have an m3 are not considering an upgrade.