The speaker system consists of a pair of tweeters and a quad of force-canceling woofers. I also clearly heard the music as it floated up to my spiral staircase to my top floor. Similar to the 16-inch model, the MacBook Pro 14-inch has six top-firing speakers that deliver loud, balanced audio that easily filled my downstairs office. It just barely edged out the Studio’s 487 nits. That easily outshined the 391-nit average as well as the XPS 15 and Blade 14 which reached 389 and 332 nits, respectively. When measuring the mini LED panel at its corners and center, we saw an average brightness of 488 nits. It’s also better than the Blade 14 (0.24) and the Studio and XPS 15 which both turned in 0.21.Īpple claims the MacBook Pro has a sustained brightness of 1,000 nits. In terms of color accuracy, the MacBook hit 0.19 Delta-E (the closer to 0 the better) which is better than the 0.25 category average. The Razer Blade 14 fared somewhat better with 78.8% while the XPS 15 proved it was the most vivid at 85%. Details were clean enough that I saw the glint of light off the golden “babygirl” necklace as well as the delicate golden links it was attached to.ĭespite sporting the capability to support up to 1 billion colors, the MacBook Pro only measured 77.6% of the DCI-P3 color gamut which is below the 83.9% premium laptop average, but better than the Studio’s 75.8%. I was transfixed by the beautiful dark-skinned Trinidadian women on my screen and the way the bright neons, particularly one woman’s electric blue hair and another’s nuclear yellow bikini accentuated their lithe figures. Watching the trailer for She Paradise, I was instantly drawn in by the cavalcade of color on the screen. What does that mean for you? An absolutely gorgeous view. The panel also features the company’s proprietary TrueTone technology that automatically adjusts the color temperature based on the environment’s lighting. And as Apple says, the panel has 5.9 million pixels and boasts a 254 PPI (pixels per inch). This version of the MacBook Pro is outfitted with a 14.2-inch, 3024 x 1964p display with a 120Hz refresh rate. OK, so we did something old, let’s talk about something new. However, security-minded consumers can protect their data via the Touch ID module nestled in the power button.
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Those of you who were hoping for Face ID login, especially with news of the new 1080p FaceTime camera (more on that later), you’re going to have to keep hoping for another system. Regardless, this is a huge step in the right direction. And while Thunderbolt 4 is great, I wish Apple made room for at least one USB-A port.