
I do wish that Apple would bring its Rose Gold color option to the MacBook Pro. This sleek slab of aluminum is available in your choice of a dark, moody Space Gray or a brighter Silver finish. Rather than showing its age, the MacBook Pro still looks sharp and modern, and has inspired quite a few Windows ultraportable look-alike laptops as well.

But concurrent updates to the MacBook Air have us recommending it over the smaller MacBook Pro as the best Apple laptop for most people.Īpple takes a “don’t mess with success” approach to the design, using the same chassis build, with small tweaks, for a few years now. The latest 13-inch MacBook Pro reviewed here is as sleek as ever and more powerful than before, thanks to Apple’s new M1 processor. Long an essential tool for multimedia editors, software developers, and other creative professionals, Apple’s 13-inch MacBook Pro ($1,299 as tested) is also appealing to mainstream Mac users seeking higher performance than the MacBook Air in a laptop that’s smaller and less expensive than the flagship 16-inch MacBook Pro.

