It’s a big gain for video editors and feels light years ahead of the old MacBook Pro. The Liquid Retina XDR display is gorgeous and one of the highlights of this machine. There’s a notch in there but you wouldn’t know it from that photo now would you? It’s a joy to type on and I wrote this whole review with it. Open it up and a beautiful new keyboard away with actual, real Function keys await. The headphone jack has moved to the left side. You’ll probably still need a few dongles. I can’t imagine anyone complaining about the extra weight as, by now, we all know that the dongle life of all Thunderbolt 3/USB-C ports is gone as the new MacBook Pro brings the return of an SD card slot, an HDMI port, and MagSafe charging though you go down one Thunderbolt/USB-C port as there are now only three, two on the left and one on the right. You can easily see the rounded shape of the new MacBook Pros. It is slightly thicker and heavier than the previous Intel MacBook Pro and has taken on rounded corners instead of the more sharp edges of its predecessors.

The form of the new MacBook Pro is really nice. This is not the MacBook Pro that I have for review but it looks a lot like it. As one who does a lot of video editing and post-production on the last generation Intel MacBook Pro the idea was to just unplug that Intel machine and plug in the M1 Max version and, hopefully, not miss too many beats as I had jobs to deliver this week. This was a well spec’d version with 64 GBs of RAM, a 2 TB SSD and running macOS Monterey 12.0.1.

I was excited to take delivery of the newly announced MacBook Pro M1 Max last week for some post-production-related testing and review.

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