Apple MacBook Pro 14 2024 review - The M4 Pro and matte display are massive upgrades

[Redaktion]

Apple has updated its MacBook Pro 14 and aside from the new M4 Pro SoC that is now even faster, it also comes with the option to select a matte display. Furthermore, its webcam has been bumped from 2 MP up to 12 MP and for the first time, its ports include Thunderbolt 5.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-MacBook-Pro-14-2024-review-The-M4-Pro-and-matte-display-are-massive-upgrades.914597.0.html

[Worgarthe]

"Response Time Black to White 71.6 ms"

"Response Time 50% Grey to 80% Grey 77.2 ms"

"The screen shows slow response rates in our tests"

Hilarious stuff. Basically PowerPoint-type of display with literal visible slideshow. If this display was in any other laptop it would get 80% top, here, because it's Apple, it gets nothing but praises and 95%. Talk about non-biased reviews...

Can't wait to see "matte is s***, glossy is superior" iTrolls to change their minds and start praising matte tho, bEcAuSe ApPle.

Edit:

"On the other hand, no Windows rival can keep up with how finely adjustable the MacBook's keyboard backlighting is."

🤣

Wait until you find out that plenty of laptops, such as the Razer Blade 14, can have per-key RGB backlit with 5-8 levels of brightness intensity, and you can, aside of changing colours, even use different strength of intensity per each key or turn it off completely and leave it on for only desired keys. But yeah, no Windows rival can keep up with Apple, blabla. Lmao.

Oh my... It's time to stop reading most of the reviews here by most of the "reviewers".

[MacDeth]

Oh my... It's time to stop reading most of the reviews here by most of the "reviewers".

I couldn't agree more. Apple is given a pass constantly on objectively worse metrics over the years (screen defect with column light bleed, atrocious butterfly keyboards, middling performance-price ratio pre-M-series, true wattage usage near Intel/AMD when actually tested in M-series era, horrible external monitor support, trash ssd speeds on 8gb MBAs,etc.) and yet they still earn an above 90 score because they only have a good cpu performance per watt and battery life though now Intel has surpassed Apple in the battery life department with some Lunar Lake laptops getting over 20 hours in NBC's own testing. they need to fire the Apple biased reviewers and remember who their audience is.

[LL]

Hello, thank you for the review.

Please consider benchmarking the GPU with Blender Benchmark in Metal to be able compare to PC in Optix(Nvidia) that Notebookcheck do.

[an0nn]

CPU performance wise, the lead M4 has is ridiculous. Nothing comes even close in laptops, especially considering power efficiency, but even raw power. Who would've thunk that 6 years ago...

[Konstantinos]

It'a funny that a laptop with 1/3 of the price is better than this Macbook Pro:

Asus-VivoBook-S-14-OLED Ryzen 9 HX-370

Better OLED screen with 100 Adobe color, fast responce times.

Better battery life with 16.5 hours web usage.

Similar CPU performance with the smaller M4 Pro 12 core.

Only GPU is slower, but if you care about games you wouldn't buy a Macbook anyway. Or you can get the Strix Halo in couple of months with better GPU.

[Joe galamb]

Hilarious stuff. Basically PowerPoint-type of display with literal visible slideshow. If this display was in any other laptop it would get 80% top, here, because it's Apple, it gets nothing but praises and 95%. Talk about non-biased reviews...

Have you seen one in real life?
For a week (until I eventually returned it) I had a 2024 Zephyrus G14 OLED at home next to my M1 Pro MacBook Pro 14 and I preferred the Mac's screen. Its colours are just more natural. And in HDR, it destroyed the Asus's OLED. The latter was not enough bright, was oversaturated, and its "perfect OLED blacks" were more like blue. So I absolutely agree with the 95%. Could go even higher.

[Toortle]

I had a 2024 Zephyrus G14 OLED at home next to my M1 Pro MacBook Pro 14 and I preferred the Mac's screen. Its colours are just more natural. And in HDR, it destroyed the Asus's OLED. The latter was not enough bright, was oversaturated, and its "perfect OLED blacks" were more like blue.

An actual comedian. OLED blacks are black - because those pixels are turned off completely.

[Ratatouille]

Gee I wonder where that HX370 or HX375 went; it's like Apple (or NBC?) doesn't want to test the best vs the best of the rest 🤔

[RobertJasiek]

from performance perspective - it's a monster

As long as we do not compare to dGPU-heavy applications or presume a maximum power consumption.

it would be good if author applied all the same testing standard to apple product as well.

For one thing, yes, the individual tests made for some similar devices ought to be also made for Apple devices. For another thing, the problem lies deeper: NBCs overall test score system is, intentionally or accidentally, designed to let Apple often win. (E.g., one might severely downgrade computers with too bad display reaction times or too excessive upgrade pricing, and Apple would often end at the last places.)

to keep this review objective, the following things should be also listed in cons list

NBC has explained several times that the pro and con lists are subjectively selective by the reviewer. We need to read them in this perspective.

seems like notebookcheck reviews rating system is broken somehow... There is missing the most important factor - security.

Please elaborate what you want to see studied in a security section!

[Grateful]

Love or hate apple, there is one thing you've got to admit.

This is going to absolutely make both strix point and Snapdragon x elite laptop prices tank. They can no longer continue to charge absurd $1600+ pricing after just seeing the performance per watt displayed here.

Especially the GPU, nothing comes close. RTX 4050 level dgpu performance but with igpu battery life is truly astounding! Why wait for just as expensive strix halo with similar level performance but with worse battery life when it's pretty much already here?

The only thing that still sucks is their GPU drivers. You can see in Cyberpunk benchmark @ ultra it gets decent FPS but when going to low there's barely any change in FPS. Should be much high there.

Hoping asahi linux with improved GPU driver support will fix these issues but that probably won't happen until years later as I don't believe they plan to support M4 anytime soon.

[Hater]

Too expensive and lacks software support, like Steam.

[NC_reader]

It'a funny that a laptop with 1/3 of the price is better than this Macbook Pro:

Asus-VivoBook-S-14-OLED Ryzen 9 HX-370

Better OLED screen with 100 Adobe color, fast responce times.

Better battery life with 16.5 hours web usage.

Similar CPU performance with the smaller M4 Pro 12 core.

Only GPU is slower, but if you care about games you wouldn't buy a Macbook anyway. Or you can get the Strix Halo in couple of months with better GPU.

Only GPU is slower :D :D :D my gosh. Asus Vivo basically doesn't have a GPU

[Joe Galamb]

I had a 2024 Zephyrus G14 OLED at home next to my M1 Pro MacBook Pro 14 and I preferred the Mac's screen. Its colours are just more natural. And in HDR, it destroyed the Asus's OLED. The latter was not enough bright, was oversaturated, and its "perfect OLED blacks" were more like blue.

An actual comedian. OLED blacks are black - because those pixels are turned off completely.

Yeah, when Apple does OLED (e.g. on my iPad Pro), they are 100% black. But when some random Chinese manufacturer, you will face compromises. Like when there is some reflective layer behind the pixels which will shine blue... Excuse me that I believe my eyes and not some random smartass on the internet!

[Batuhan]

It'a funny that a laptop with 1/3 of the price is better than this Macbook Pro:

Asus-VivoBook-S-14-OLED Ryzen 9 HX-370

Better OLED screen with 100 Adobe color, fast responce times.

Better battery life with 16.5 hours web usage.

Similar CPU performance with the smaller M4 Pro 12 core.

Only GPU is slower, but if you care about games you wouldn't buy a Macbook anyway. Or you can get the Strix Halo in couple of months with better GPU.

Where is hx 370 laptop for 700 dolar?
M4 pro  cpu is 50 percent faster single core 35 percent faster for multi core  .for 200 dolar you can get 14 core version and it is 50 percent faster
16core gpu is 60 percent faster 20 core gpu has double the performance of 890m .
İn gaming it is rtx 4050m and other stuff it is like rtx 4070 mobile
Basicaly same batery life
Hx 370 is m4 level cpu .