The lowest 13-inch MacBook Pro costs $1,299, while the cheapest 12-inch MacBook Air costs $999. An active cooling system, an improved display, and an increase in aluminium content all help to drive up MacBook Pro’s price. The MacBook Pro is more expensive than the MacBook Air. To conclude, the MacBook Pro is more powerful than the MacBook Air. With a score of 2,794, the M2-equipped MacBook Pro is right in the middle of the two previous generations of M1 processors. The 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros, on the other hand, scored 5,321 and 5,314, respectively, beating out the competition. The SSDs in the M1 Pro (13-inch) edged over the M1 Air’s 2,692 MBps and the 16-inch Pro’s 2,540 MBps in the BlackMagic Disk Speed Test. The MacBook Air 2022 came in second with a time of 7:52, just ahead of the MacBook Air 2018. Using the M2 MacBook Pro, a video was transcoded in only 6:51. Both the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro 2021 laptops transcoded in under five minutes, proving to be the faster of the two models.
The M1 MacBook Pro took 7:44 less time than the Air to transcode a 4K movie to 1080p. In the multi-core segment of Geekbench 5.4, the MacBook Pro 2022 scored 8,911 while the MacBook Air 2022 scored 8,919 on the test. The M2 CPU, although less powerful than the M1 Pro and Max processors, is nonetheless a beast. According to Geekbench 5, the 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M1 pro processor scored 12,477, while the 16-inch model scored 12,683. However, the new MacBook Pro annihilated them both. The new MacBook Air (M1, 16GB RAM) and the new MacBook Pro (M1, 16GB RAM) scored 5,9 on the Geekbench 5 benchmarks. In testing, Apple claims that the M1-based MacBook Air and Pro operate better than before. However, unlike the iPhone, there is no Face ID hardware or support in the notch.
In the new MacBook Air and the 14-inch MacBook Pro, the 1080p FaceTime camera is housed in a notch at the top of the display. The new MacBook Air offers a 13.6-inch screen with thinner bezels, which is another improvement with the redesign.įor HDR video, you can get up to 1,000 nits of brightness on the 14-inch MacBook Pro, also you can also get up to 120 Hz refresh rates with ProMotion, mini-LED illumination, and small bezels. If you care about screen brightness, the 2022 MacBook Air has improved from 400 to 500 nits. Here’s the weight and dimensions of MacBook Air and Pro:.