M2 MacBook Pro 14 vs 16 - Watch BEFORE You Buy! [M2 Pro + Max] 

I went 16” last year but the 14” does look a lot more portable. Although I’m not going to upgrade for a few years I’d go 14” next time I think.

I alredy own a 14 M1 pro MacBook pro

Definitely 16"

Went for the 16 M1 at the time. I regret it. I have since baught NReal Air glasses (£330), it is a better way to get more estate than a 16" screen with more mobility wth the 14".

still using my intel 16 inch one, but if about to upgrade it probably gonna go with 14 inch one (since more portable, cheaper and obviously better than my current intel one) and use spare money for external portable monitor if i need another screen.

I'd advice to stick to 16 inch in that case. I'm a programmer and 14 inch doesn't provide enough screen space for my tools.

do you keep it plugged in all the time? ( probably yes if u use it via type c) And how did it effect ur battery?

I would also advice to stick to the 16”! I really messed up getting the 14”, I need the bigger screen real estate. Wishing I can rewind!

@@DanielNistreanThis is the only reason a switched from 13 inch to 16 inch. The 16 is heavier but coding on a 13 inch screen is a nightmare.

The weight of the 16-inch isn't necessarily the worst thing, it's more just how bulky it is. Doesn't fit well in places like coffee shops or airplanes. It is great if you use your computer mostly at home and it fits comfortably on your lap - but if you're on the go frequently, the 14 inch tends to be a better choice

I honestly can barely (if at all) tell the difference of weight between the 14” and 16”. Personally, even if I do get a monitor, I think I’ll use the 16” as a second monitor because of the quality of the display.

@@whengrapespop5728 Literally exactly what I've done. Got the 16" and haven't looked back since!!

I bought the 14 and returned it within 24 hours to get the 16. The 14 just felt small coming from a 15 inch MBP, I don't regret switching back to the 16 a bit

I don’t regret my 16 inch at all, the bigger screen is great for coding. If I need a smaller computer to take to coffee shops or on a plane, I’ll just stick to my m1 iPad Pro 12.9.

Where are the retailers

That’s great. But after three months, did you think you did the right choice or do you think it would have been better if you had bought the 14” over the 16” ?

@@SalahAlddeenSalah I have the MBP 16" and couldn't be happier with my choice. I don't have an external display and my eyesight isn't as good as it used to be. Such a relief not to have such a cramped display.

You mean 16 is MacBook Pro 16-inch 2019!?😡

@@dharmaandra4720 nah one of the m1 pro 16 inch laptops. It’s awesome if you’re going to use the laptop screen a lot but I usually just dock my 14 inch with a keyboard and monitor at home.

I just got the base 14 M2 pro for £2100 new. Having had the M1 it's a definite step up and well worth the £200 more.

Good! Please take care your laptop because thats your last laptop forever

Display is too small for video editing

@@gurugamer8632 No it isn't... and if you really find it a pinch, use an external monitor.

I have a 13-inch M2 pro, and I totally love it. The screen size feels enough to me, even for doing multiple stuff at a time.

It’s nicer, but the 14 is already huge

Good spot!

16" is the same size as the 15" (2020 and earlier)

Apple no longer sells refurbished M1 Pro

Good Job Please take care your laptop and your next laptop will M2 14 Pro and maybe you can interested about Dell XPS 15 9500/Dell XPS 15 9510/Dell XPS 17 9700/Dell XPS 17 9710!

How is it for you i am looking at it as it seems sweet spot

@@Donbros its great for what I use it for. i dont do much heavy usage on it just bc I have a custom i built for that. im super impressed with battery life. I was able to watch like 10 hours of always sunny on a car ride that was stored on a sd card and only used like 55% of the battery at max brightness. the thing never gets hot or even warm while doing normal stuff cpu stays around 45-50 Celsius with fans off when web browsing and watching youtube. i tried some of my steam games like hitman 1 and was able to do ultra settings at 1200p and get around 110-120fps and at 1440p equivalent around 50-60 fps and it did get a little warm during that with fans slightly audible but no where near as hot and loud as my legion 7 with a 3060. still doesnt replace my legion for mobile powerhouse work though but its great if you know your workflow is optimized for apple silicon or if you want a web browsing device that checks all the boxes and will remain fast for a while

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You've hit the nail on the head 👍🏻

I messed up so bad getting the 14” lol. Wishing I got the 16” baddd rn!

@@lionmike247so sorry for you but this comment kinda convinced me to go bigger 😂

@@kc7159 I swear I’m saying this to save you lol. Not many peeps saying it online. I guess it’s preferences but these Macs have the best screens to date and I want the biggest I can have now lmfao

but u can connect it with external monitor?

Good job Please take care your laptop and your next laptop is M2 MacBook Air!

How is it for traveling purpose ?

When you move around a lot, having a small device is very useful. The M2 13 inch is perfect.

@Valentino MC I'm thinking to get one but M3 lunching soon 😅

really? I love my 16m2 pro but I feel like its so massive

@@vladcodei ordered it and I’m still waiting for it to arrive, but I know I bought it for its overwhelming specs. This is my first time buying and owning a laptop, I do hope the 16 inch won’t bother me.

Changed 15 years ago from PC to Mac, I will never go back to PC; Apple are so much better machines, better quality, no headaches, and just simpler to do everything. Yes they are expensive, but like everything else, you pay for quality, only one regret: I should have switch to Apple way before, would have same me a bunch of headaches I had so much in the past with all kind of PCs...

HP Pavilion EC0014AU is 14 inch

This.

Yes

Thanks :)

Marginally, not a reason alone to buy 16 over 14 alone.

@@shaun1900 Thanks :)

Wonder if the 16” base model has the same performance hit as the 14”.

The 16” comes with a couple of bonuses: the display is larger, you will get more of that beautiful mini led display, the bezels look slimmer due to the ratios, the notch looks smaller for the same reason. The 16” gets a larger trackpad which is more convenient to use and the speakers are better giving richer sound. As far as battery life the 16” gets three hours more in terms of web browsing, and also gets a more powerful 140 watt power supply.

You must have M1 Pro 14 inch and than have M2 Pro 14 inch than anyway please take care your laptop because thats your last laptop forever

the thermals are just fine the fan curves suck stock they want them to run high but make no mistake there is no issue with thermals on either the 14 or the 16

@@frostgodx I mean they are running at the limit of thermals on 14. I think for these chips throttle happens at 110 so only a few degrees of the thermal limit. My point was more that 14 is pretty close to thermal limit this M2 generation due to different smaller heat spreader on the heat sync or higher clocked chips, or combination of the two. And like I did mention the tests I did are in more extreme conditions for that specific reason to see how they perform at the limit.

@@EugeneKam I can appreciate an opposing view but that is just incorrect in all counts. To go into more depth the 14" only appears to be at the thermal limit when you use the stock apple fan curves/speeds which allows the chip to reach over 100c under heavy load to maintain user experience and fans not blaring loud. If you set your curves with an app like TG pro you can place a FULL 100% load on CPU and GPU for 10+ mins straight and never see a single digit above 87-88c. Though of course the fans are then sitting at 5800-6k rpm and are sitting maxed out which isnt realistic however there is still a good 15c to go before your maxing out the cooling system. Take any new windows gaming laptop and its common practice on them to run the fans at full speed and even have 3 to compensate for the heat and in many of those they are forced to throttle just to perform. These M1 and M2 chips simply are far more advanced along with the chassis redesign and cooling system being the best in a 14" on planet earth for the size. For some reason all the mainstream testing is on the stock fan profile which is pretty terrible at anything besides keeping it quiet which makes sense as thats what most people went berserk about on the intel models. As far as the heat spreader its smaller because they know they are allowing the temps on the die to go higher and dont want it to compromise the unified memory chips and shorten longevity which again makes total sense. I have done extensive testing on both 14" and 16" max 24 and 32 core gpu models since the 2021 release of the originals in this chassis and last week on release picked up a 30-core gpu 14" max and 38-core 16", i got a 38-core 14" finally delivered to me yesterday from my custom order and this is what I am basing my info from. I fully expected results like you are saying and like other videos show but again im just not when i am not running apple fan curves.

​@@frostgodx I get what you are saying and I agree with creating profile, but the problem is an average consumer would not spend the 10-20$ on TG Pro to remedy the situation. The fact that you have to buy additional software to control the fans is already a fail on Apple's part in my opinion. Its a slipery slope, and that's why I appreciate most reviewers not using TG Pro to actually modify default behaviour of the machine to demonstrate the characteristics that at least 80% of the people are going to experience. At this point I could in theory get even petter pefromance via TG fan control and replacing the stock thermal compound with liquid metal and more dence memory insulation pads. As for Apple having the best thermal design, I would have to disagree. Apple is not using vapour chambers or larger heatpipes or anything really exotic that some of the other manufacturers use, including LM. The reason they are still running well enough is the ARM architecture just generally runs cooler, the actual thermal design of the chassis and heat spreader/fin stack is very generic and sourced based on cost to adequate enough cooling performance rather than anything else. Which is one of the reason why they chose to go with more dense NAND chips compare to M1 generation. The cost difference for chips themselves is about 1.10 dollars going from less to more dense memory, and loosing 40% of the speed. These are rough numbers based on and cost themselves. Add a few seconds for extra chip placement and fractions of cens for extra soldier and storage costs and you are very little to loose quite a bit on these machines. Buts that's pretty off topic. Apple products like any other company ultimately has the products built in a happy compromise between engineering and accounting departments.

the issue I have avec the air is the lack of connectivity… Otherwise I would choose it as well. But I want to use it on shootings, checking my videos/photos on stage, making livestreams etc and for that having SD card reader, proper HDMI and more USB-c is a no brainer.

@@ConcreteAdvisory That is totally fair. I would really not mind having at least a USB-A and a HDMI port built in.

For video editing yes

Your destination will 14 M1 Pro

Good! Please take care because thats your last laptop forever

haha I mostly do! (although this was a train)

M1 MacBook Pro is will be your destination but just enjoy the HP Envy 17 or your solution Dell XPS 15 9500,Dell XPS 15 9510,Dell XPS 17 9700,Dell XPS 17 9710!

How??

I don’t think the average user would really notice tbh - but yes you’re right

@@Thetechchapbiased. how much money did apple pay you.

@@V1P3R089 hah I bought both of these myself and apple doesn’t pay for content

@@Thetechchap then you did not say it does not matter if ssd speed is slower.. do you seriously think 2000 dollar is a small amount of money and do you think it is justifiable. also, if a person is paying extra for ssd then he also should get slower ssd speed as well and that would be justifiable who is paying 2000 dollars.

@@V1P3R089 my recommendation is to go for the older m1 pros

Good! Please take care because thats your last laptop forever

Constantly waiting for the next generation is a mugs game

Then the M5 will be 2nm so might as well wait till then as well

Good job Good choice Or HP Pavilion EC0014AU?14 inch too?

Do your laptop is MacBook Pro 2012 but whats inch?thats hang if open more 70 tab in Google Chrome and open more 100 tab in Safari?

because it costs more to import and different way tech is taxed in the UK and in the USA.. it is not that they SHOULD, but simply that they DO... that is like saying "oh, why should people in Africa be hungry, compared to Europe and the US?" not that they should, but still are.. there are reasons and causes for everything..

True

Intel ? 😅😅😅

@@gurugamer8632 Some apps will not work on the Mac chip anyway? For me Intel is the cheapest way to upgrade 👍

Better go with the M2 Pro 14" then, cause with the M2 Air with the same specs, you'll be close to the Pro price, without having the better screen, better speaker and still have the Pro faster, it really is a no brainer. Now, if you take the base M2 Air, there a difference in price, but for me having 8gb-core cpu/gpu and 256gb of storage isn't gonna be enough for sure...; then like I said I'd be close to the 14" M2 Pro, so it wouldn't make sense to go with the M2 Air.

@ForeverRoads what about the 15-inch m2 laptop? Will it be good . Im a school student, and my work isn't heavy except for playing games like gta 5 in Crossover and minecraft

@@pravinvelmurugan990 16 inch you mean, there isn't any 15" at Apple, that's up to you if you need to take it with you or not, 16" can be too big...

@@MustangCollectibles no no in two apple will be releasing 15 macbooks

@@pravinvelmurugan990 ok yes, MacBook Air 15", why not, will be interesting to see witch screen and power it will have, to compare with a MacBook Pro M2...