

The laptop's keyboard comes with Dell's trademark backlit design. It also looks gorgeous: A silver aluminum lid and bottom cover the laptop and a black soft-touch deck interior and palm rests are coated with carbon fiber. Packed in its sleek, thin design is an Intel i9-11900H processor, a beefed up Nvidia RTX3060 graphics card, 32 GB of memory and a generous and fast 1TB SSD. Read the full MacBook Pro 16-Inch (2021) reviewĮngaging in 4K video editing on a laptop with the same power as a desktop workstation and a UHD display wasn’t until recently a realistic proposition but now it is. If that isn’t enough, the battery life is stellar, especially for a larger notebook. It also comes with plenty of ports including 3 Thunderbolt 4 ports, an HDMI port, an SDXC card slot, and the return of the MagSafe port so all your Thunderbolt ports are available even when charging. That gorgeous mini-LED XDR display gives you 254 pixels per inch as well as up to 1600 nits of peak brightness, making this an easy screen to use. However, if you’re willing to pay and carry the extra weight, there’s a lot more than just the performance of the new M1 chips.

It’s also a bit on the bigger side, weighing 4.7 pounds or 2.1 kgs, making it a little less portable than the 14-inch model or a lot of other options here.


If this is more power than you need in a computer, there are other options on this list that cost less than half the 16-Inch’s base model. The main drawback of the MacBook Pro 16-Inch (2021) is its price. Since you can upgrade the SSD to up to 8TB of storage, you can skip carrying around an extra drive for storage. Add in up to 64GB of RAM (32 if you stick with the M1 Pro and this powerhouse will rip through any project you throw at it. Not only is that 8 performance cores and 2 efficiency cores of processing power but, since it’s a system on a chip, you also get either 16 or 32 cores handling your graphics. The larger of Apple’s new Pro laptops contains about as much performance as you can ask for in a notebook, powered by either Apple’s Soc 10-core M1 Pro or M1 Max SoC (system on a chip).
