READ NEXT: Huawei MateBook 14s review Apple MacBook Pro 16in (2021, M1 Pro) review: Price and competition Thanks to the new Apple M1 Pro and Pro Max processors, sumptuous mini-LED displays and an expanded array of physical ports, among many other things, Apple’s new machines should be the laptops of choice for the demanding mobile professional for the foreseeable future. But it still isn’t quite a perfect ten. As I mentioned above, the bathtub notch housing the 1080p FaceTime HD camera is still, in my view, an unnecessary compromise. The fact that there’s no USB-A port is an annoyance, too. I understand Apple has to draw the line somewhere, otherwise there would be no end of holes littering the edges of its otherwise pristine devices, but one small nod to legacy devices is surely not too much to ask.

Folks that need a productivity-focused ultrabook that offers a strong balance between performance and price should look towards the Acer Swift 3's 16-inch option. Between its 11th Gen Intel i7-11370H, Intel Iris Xe integrated graphics, 16GB of RAM, and up to 1TB SSD, the 16-inch Acer Swift 3 delivers reliable and respectable performance for productivity. On top of that, the FHD display has great colors and contrast, though it's not as sharp as the panels you'll find on more expensive laptops. The battery life of the device comes in at a cool 10-11 hours. Battery: These systems do not support batteries that are not genuine Lenovo-made or authorised. Systems will continue to boot, but may not charge unauthorised batteries. Lenovo has no responsibility for the performance or safety of unauthorised batteries, and provides no warranties for failures or damage arising out of their use. **Battery life is based on the MobileMark® 2014 methodology and is an estimated maximum. Actual battery life may vary based on many factors, including screen brightness, active applications, features, power management settings, battery age and conditioning, and other customer preferences. In benchmarks, it’s a beast. You can see where it sits in comparison to other M1 and M2 Macs I’ve tested previously in the charts below. Suffice it to say, though, it’s faster than every other Mac we’ve tested so far, apart from the M1 Ultra-based Mac Studio: However, the lower brightness caps mean these modes aren’t particularly useful for viewing content, so you’ll be spending most of your time with the Apple XDR Display (P3-1600nits) mode for browsing and watching streaming content. That’s fine, though, as this is plenty colour accurate for casual browsing. I recorded an average Delta E of 0.93 compared with Apple’s Display P3 standard, and an average Delta E of 2.2 versus sRGB. A millimetre (American spelling: millimeter, symbol mm) is one thousandth of a metre, which is the International System of Units (SI) base unit of length. The millimetre is part of a metric system. A corresponding unit of area is the square millimetre and a corresponding unit of volume is the cubic millimetre.Perhaps more importantly, however, is that in addition to the all-singing, all-dancing default XDR display mode, Apple has included a number of pre-calibrated modes aimed at different creative scenarios.

Apple sells the 16in MacBook Pro in a wide selection of options and configurations, but every build begins with one of three standard models with the following specifications and prices: Finally, most gaming laptops have a dual fan cooling system, but the G16 was able to push the performance envelope even further with the introduction of a third fan that helps keep the GPU and VRAM cool. Paired with seven heatpipes and Conductonaut Extreme liquid metal on both the CPU and GPU*, the G16’s cooling system is a marvel of engineering. *Conductonaut Extreme liquid metal is applied to the GPU on models with an RTX™ 4080 GPU only READ NEXT: The best laptops to buy today Apple MacBook Pro 16-inch (M2 Pro, 2023) review: Performance

A stupendous laptop with an unbelievably good screen, superb battery life and breakneck performance

The last significant overhaul to the MacBook Pro’s design came with the first generation of Pro 14in and 16in laptops in 2021. I wasn’t expecting any changes with this generation and so it proved. I loaded it up with 17 simultaneous clips of 8K H.265 video and used DaVinci Resolve to output to 4K ProRes 4444 XQ and it popped out in 4mins 5secs. Compared to my M1 Mac mini, which completed the same task in 9mins 31secs, that’s seriously fast. There are, in fact, two versions of the M2 Max Processor, one with a 38-core GPU as above and a slightly cheaper one with a 30-core GPU. And, as mentioned above, you can also up the RAM to 96GB if needs be, and the internal storage to a huge 8TB. READ NEXT: The best laptops to buy today Apple MacBook Pro 16-inch (M2 Pro, 2023) review: Design and features

While there aren't a ton of 16-inch laptops on the market, it's not a form factor that you should overlook when buying your next laptop. In many cases, 16-inch devices offer much of the same powerful hardware that you can find in larger 17-inch laptops, but in a chassis that's less cumbersome and easier to carry around. On top of that, 16-inch laptops also tend to have better battery life than 17-inch options, and are often less expensive. This makes them a great alternative if you want something larger than 13, 14, or 15 inches, but don't want something as big or as expensive as 17-inch devices typically are. ROG GameVisual software offers six expertly tuned graphic modes designed to optimize your visual experience for specific game genres. First Person Shooter (FPS) mode, for example, enhances visibility in dark environments, allowing you to get the drop on any enemies lurking in the shadows. Use GameVisual to get the best experience for every game in your library. Among all the laptops we’ve reviewed that scored 250 or more in our in-house benchmarks, this year’s MacBook Pro is by far the longest-lasting machine. Impressively, it lasted nearly two hours longer than the less powerful M1 MacBook Air and ten hours longer than the aforementioned Alienware x15. The same applies to other rivals in the Windows domain as well, at least the models we’ve reviewed in the past. Laptops such as this year’s updates of the Asus ROG Zephyrus M16 and the 2023 Razer Blade 16 are on a par with the MacBook for power and best it on the gaming front but can’t match its battery life or specialist video editing capabilities. READ NEXT: Our guide to the best laptops you can buy Apple MacBook Pro 16in review: What you need to know

An inch is the name of a unit of length in a number of different systems, including Imperial units, and United States customary units. There are 36 inches in a yard and 12 inches in a foot. The inch is usually the universal unit of measurement in the United States, and is widely used in the United Kingdom, and Canada, despite the introduction of metric to the latter two in the 1960s and 1970s, respectively. The inch is still commonly used informally, although somewhat less, in other Commonwealth nations such as Australia; an example being the long standing tradition of measuring the height of newborn children in inches rather than centimetres. The international inch is defined to be equal to 25.4 millimeters. In short, this is a very, very good display. It’s incredibly bright, very colour accurate and, more than that, it’s a display that even demanding creative professionals should find usable without the need for further calibration. Plus in your downtime, it’s a supremely enjoyable screen to enjoy Dolby Vision movies and TV shows on via Apple TV+. Perhaps the most impressive aspect of the performance of the MacBook Pro 16in, however, isn’t the raw power of its CPU or GPU but its efficiency. Normally, you’d expect a big, beefy machine like this to be a terrible choice as a carry-around, work on the move laptop but not a bit of it. Battery life is fantastic, lasting a highly impressive 16hrs 20mins in our video rundown test. Much though we’d have loved Apple to send us the top-end model, the model on test is more representative of the sort of specification most people will opt for, with an M1 Pro processor supplemented by 32GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD. I can’t comment on the M2 Max chipset’s performance levels in this review as Apple supplied an M2 Pro (12-core CPU, 19-core GPU) for testing. If my results are anything to go by, though, most users won’t need anything more. As with the M2 Pro Mac mini, this is an absolute beast of a machine, that will take everything from 8K video editing, colour grading and editing to 3D rendering in its stride.

The display itself is a stunner. I said at the time of my iPad Pro 12.9in (2021) review that I consider mini-LED technology to be a better choice than OLED for mobile devices with larger screens such as laptops and this MacBook Pro display confirms that for me. While mini-LED screens will never be able to quite match the perfect contrast of OLED – there will always be a little blooming in areas of strong contrast – and there is some of that here – they are in many ways more practical. Both the Apple M1 Pro and Apple M1 Max CPU chip options offer blistering performance in creative workloads, and the laptop also comes with up to 64GB of RAM and up to (a ridiculous) 8TB of SSD space for even more power. Its mini-LED 3456x2234 display looks incredible as well, and the device also has an impressive max battery life of 14-15 hours. This laptop is nothing short of an absolute beast, and its FHD display is similarly impressive with its gorgeous colors and 144Hz refresh rate that's perfect for gaming. The battery life isn't great — you'll only be able to game for an hour or two while off the charger — but that's normal for gaming laptops.These include “HDR Video”, which sets the display so professionals working on HDR10 video can preview material correctly. In this mode, the brightness is capped at 1,000cd/m2, the colour space set to P3 and the gamma to ST.2084.