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Tom's Guide
3 days ago
- Tom's Guide
Amazon is selling the MacBook Pro M4 for lowest price yet — get one now!
If you're looking for one of the best MacBooks, the latest 14-inch M4 MacBook Pro is the laptop to consider. While it is the most affordable MacBook Pro available, the usual $1,599 cost isn't exactly cheap. Thankfully, it's now been reduced to a price that makes it as affordable as a MacBook Air. Right now, the MacBook Pro 14-inch M4 is on sale for $1,299 at Amazon. That $300 price reduction makes it cost just $100 more than the 15-inch MacBook Air M4, which is already a great value laptop. If you're looking for a dependable MacBook for everyday work, video editing and even gaming, the 14-inch MacBook Pro M4 at this price is hard to top. (For more deals, check out this week's best MacBook deals). The MacBook Pro M4 offers amazing battery life and faster performance, along with clever Apple Intelligence features, but the nano-texture display steals the show. We also like the sharper 12MP webcam and additional Thunderbolt port, but the SSD is slower than we expected. The latest 14-inch MacBook Pro M4 features the same design as MacBooks released since late 2021. Measuring 12.3 x 8.7 x 6.1 inches and weighing 3.4 pounds, this laptop is a nice middle ground between a MacBook Air 13-inch M4 and a MacBook Pro 16-inch M4 Pro. It's not only easy to travel with, but it also looks great thanks to its elegant design. This model improves on its predecessor, the MacBook Pro 14-inch M3. Upgrades include three Thunderbolt ports instead of two, an optional nano-texture display that drastically reduces glare, and a sharper 12MP camera. It can even power two external displays simultaneously, which is another big upgrade over the M3 model. Thanks to the M4 chip inside, this MacBook Pro delivers incredible performance and astonishing battery life. On Geekbench, which measures overall performance, the MacBook Pro M4 turned in considerably faster scores on the single-core test than the M3 model and blew away some of the best Windows laptops. It also lasted for 18 hours and 31 minutes in our battery life test, which makes it one of the longest-lasting laptops we've ever reviewed. I review laptops for a living, so I can tell you that the 14-inch MacBook Pro M4 is a laptop you should seriously consider buying if you're looking to upgrade from an older MacBook or if you're a Windows user who wants to see what macOS is all about. I don't know how this deal will last, so I urge you to get the MacBook Pro M4 before it returns to its original price. Follow Tom's Guide on Google News to get our up-to-date news, how-tos, and reviews in your feeds. Make sure to click the Follow button.
Tom's Guide
5 days ago
- Tom's Guide
The MacBook Pro got me through college — here's why it's perfect for today's creative students
Beyond the MacBook Pro, there is an ocean of companies trying to sell you what they think is a great laptop for your studies. Block out the noise and check out my best laptops for students guide for my expert picks that are worth your money. I was an A/V nerd back in college, spending my time obsessing over photography and videography for my degree, while recording my own music as a passion. Through it all, one laptop brought my imagination to life: the MacBook Pro. And I can safely say that is still very much the case in 2025. Ever since flipping to Mac 18 years ago for my daily driver (I felt myself grow older typing that), I've never looked back. The industry-standard software support, the display and build quality, the 'it just works' synergy of Apple's entire ecosystem, the raw horsepower for prosumer tasks, the battery life — all of this comes together to make it a must-buy for any creative in school. So what makes it so special? What makes the M4 MacBook Pro the default choice I tell anyone going into a media course similar to mine to get? Let me explain. The M4-based MacBook Pro M4 is pretty close to being the perfect laptop. You get fantastic performance from the M4 chip, useful Apple Intelligence features, a better webcam and obscenely long battery life (18:31). In our MacBook Pro 14-inch M4 review, we said it's the best laptop for power users, now with more AI features. The base model features a 14.2-inch 3024 x 1964 Retina display, Apple M4 CPU, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD. If you're looking for raw horsepower, the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M4 Pro chip is for you. It offers blistering performance and will likely speed through most of your daily tasks without so much as a hiccup. The base model features a 14.2-inch 3024 x 1964 Retina display, Apple M4 Pro CPU, 24GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD. When I went to college, my MacBook Pro still had a light-up Apple logo and an Intel processor. But it was still the speed demon of the campus with somewhat decent battery life. In 2025, that's a very different story. Apple silicon continues to dominate the charts in Pugetbench creator software benchmarking and equally offering serious longevity. Photoshop (Score/Time) Premiere Pro (Score/Time) MacBook Pro M4 10,542 / 11.74 min 4,618 / 6.13 min MacBook Pro M4 Pro 12,292 / 10.94 min 8,888 / 3.59 min Dell 14 Premium (Intel Core Ultra 7 255 H / RTX 4050) 7,583 / 18.19 min n/a Asus ProArt PX13 (AMD Ryzen, RTX 4050) 7,948 / 18.32 min 7,074 / 4.70 min Even on the regular M4 MacBook Pro, the speeds of rendering a complex 4K video edit or adding large modulation, distortion and delay effects to multiple tracks in an audio composition are done rapidly. But of course, you can step it up to M4 Pro for that additional performance. Currently, I'm on an M3 Pro MacBook Pro as my daily driver, and I'm able to export a 20-minute 4K video from Final Cut Pro in around 5-6 minutes depending on the complexity. This is significant for speedily turning around work for tight deadlines. Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips. It's Apple's m/o after all — make great hardware, but don't forget about the software too. I do dabble in Adobe's creative suite every now and again (mostly Photoshop, but I do know my way around Premiere Pro), but in my mind, none of the competition comes close to Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro. Now I know that's a controversial take, and before I get absolutely torched in the comments, I know there are more feature-rich options out there. For example, DaVinci Resolve does have more powerful color grading tools than FCP, and Pro Tools gives you a lot more control over multi-track recording. But what I'm talking about here is the ease-of-access and the better balanced sliding scale between simple creations and the increasing complexities of pro content creation. To get to the point of color grading in DaVinci, it takes a number of steps and a ton of industrial knowhow to get there. On Final Cut, it could be as easy as clicking 'Enhance light and color' for a quick fix, or you have the flexibility to get super personal on it. To even just set up a session in Pro Tools, there's a steep learning curve (and don't even think about adding MIDI instruments, as support is weak). With Logic Pro inheriting a combined loop/timeline user interface, creating a song is a cinch, but with a huge depth of Audio FX manipulation to geek out over the millisecond response time of a reverb. And these have just gotten better over time with AI tasks boosted by that Neural Engine — tracking a moving person to walk in front of some giant text is as easy as setting a magnetic mask, and you can alter the tempo of an audio track without any noticeable digitization of the sound quality. In terms of capabilities, they are indeed apps used by pros across the world, but Apple absolutely nailed the UI on them to essentially handhold you through your first creations and gently start to layer over increased complexities in a real 'what you see is what you get' quality. Plus, a special shout-out to the fact you can just buy them outright for life — rather than being forced into a monthly fee for Adobe Creative Suite. So most of my ideas come past midnight (shout-out to my fellow insomniacs). At a time like that, you need speed and stability so as to not let that idea vanish out of your mind in the time it takes to start a laptop up. The instant-on nature of a MacBook Pro is one of the low-key best bits about the machines of today. Immediately, you can jump straight in and open what you need to open — rather than having to wait for a few seconds for your Windows laptop to wake up and be notified of any news on the Microsoft widgets bar (also those ads…you've got to love those ads). It's clean enough to jump straight into whipping something together within seconds. And this was on my 13-inch MacBook Pro from 2015 that you see here.! Fast forward to now, and that process has only gotten faster. None of this is to say there aren't viable alternatives in the Windows space. I'll be the first to admit that after falling in love with the likes of the Asus ProArt P16 (currently testing the new 2025 version). But whichever way you slice it, I always end up finding my way back to a MacBook Pro and feeling all the more creatively engaged with it. The snappiness of the performance, the worry-free battery life, the quality of that display and the utilitarian nature of the laptop just getting out of the way of you making cool stuff just gives you reassurance in what you create. And it's that feeling that makes this easily my personal pick of the pack for a laptop for any college student jumping on a creative degree. Follow Tom's Guide on Google News to get our up-to-date news, how-tos, and reviews in your feeds. Make sure to click the Follow button.
Engadget
29-07-2025
- Business
- Engadget
Apple's 14-inch MacBook Pro with M4 drops to a record-low price
Apparently it's the season for great deals on Apple's MacBooks with M4 chips. First, the 13-inch MacBook Air M4 dropped to an all-time low of $799 (it's still on sale here). Now, the 14-inch MacBook Pro M4 has followed in its footsteps, going on sale for its own record-low price of $1,299. The 19 percent discount means $300 in savings, compared to the model's usual $1,599 price tag. That deal will get you 16GB of RAM and 512GB of SSD. Though, if you're willing to spend another $200, you can get 1TB of SSD. We gave the 14-inch MacBook Pro M4 a 92 in our review thanks, in large part, to the M4 chip's speed. We also named it our best MacBook for creatives due to factors like speed, brighter screens and an upgraded webcam (12MP instead of 1080p). It also has a very long battery life, lasting for over 34 hours while playing HD video. Are you looking for something a bit bigger and faster? The 16-inch Apple MacBook Pro model is also on sale, albeit less significantly. You can get 24GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD for $2,235, down from $2,499 — an 11 percent discount. It's only available with Apple's M4 Pro chip and 24GB of RAM. The M4 Pro chip can support Thunderbolt 5, allowing you to transfer files at 120GB per second, compared to 40GB per second in the fourth generation. Check out our coverage of the best Apple deals for more discounts, and follow @EngadgetDeals on X for the latest tech deals and buying advice.
Tom's Guide
20-06-2025
- Business
- Tom's Guide
I review MacBooks for a living — here's the 9 best deals to get before Prime Day
I review the best laptops for a living, and the best MacBooks rank among them. While these notebooks have a reputation for being pricey, you can often find them discounted at major retailers like Amazon, B&H Photo, and Best Buy. Because of that, it's almost always a good time to buy one of Apple's laptops. Some of the best MacBook deals I've found include a 13-inch MacBook Air M4 for $849 at Amazon, which is a nice $150 discount. If you want something slightly larger and with more ports, the 14-inch MacBook Pro M4 is currently $1,399. The 16-inch MacBook Pro M4 Pro is also on sale for $200 off. Whether you're looking for a lightweight MacBook Air or a powerful MacBook Pro, I've got you covered. Below are some of the best MacBook deals I've found. And if you don't see the listed sale price, try checking different color models for hidden deals. Also, be sure to follow our guides for the best early Prime Day deals, best Apple promo codes and best laptops for college students. The M4-based MacBook Pro M4 is pretty close to being the perfect laptop. You get fantastic performance from the M4 chip, useful Apple Intelligence features, a better webcam and obscenely long battery life (18:31). In our MacBook Pro 14-inch M4 review, we said it's the best laptop for power users, now with more AI features. The base model features a 14.2-inch 3024 x 1964 Retina display, Apple M4 CPU, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB check: $1,599 @ Best Buy | $1,399 @ B&H If you're looking for raw horsepower, the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M4 Pro chip is for you. It offers blistering performance and will likely speed through most of your daily tasks without so much as a hiccup. The base model features a 14.2-inch 3024 x 1964 Retina display, Apple M4 Pro CPU, 24GB of RAM, and a 512GB check: $1,779 @ Best Buy | $1,749 @ B&H The new 16-inch MacBook Pro can be configured with the M4 Pro or M4 Max chipset to deliver record-breaking speeds. In our MacBook Pro 16-inch review we said it's a powerful laptop with a vivid display, sensible design, fast performance, comfortable keyboard, and epic 20:46 battery life. The base model features a 16.2-inch 3456 x 2234 Retina display, Apple M4 Pro CPU, 24GB of RAM, and a 512GB check: $2,299 @ B&H | $2,249 @ Best Buy It'll cost you a small fortune, but this is the ultimate MacBook Pro you can buy right now. The base model features a 16.2-inch 3456 x 2234 Retina display, Apple M4 Max CPU, 36GB of RAM, and a 1TB check: $3,149 @ B&H | $3,149 @ Best Buy The MacBook Air M1 offers fantastic performance and value. The M1 CPU never stuttered in our tests and also helped it reach over 14 hours of battery life. It features a 13.3-inch Retina display, Apple M1 CPU, 8GB of RAM, and a 256GB SSD. In our MacBook Air M1 review, we said it offers amazing endurance and shockingly good check: sold out @ Best Buy | sold out @ Amazon It's no longer Apple's flagship, but the MacBook Air M2 is one of our most recommended laptops because it's remarkably light and thin yet sports a 13.6-inch Liquid Retina display, a speedy Apple M2 CPU w/ 8-core GPU, 16GB of RAM, 256GB SSD, and a great 1080p FaceTime camera. In our MacBook Air M2 review, we lauded this Editor's Choice laptop for its versatility and battery life, so don't miss your chance to get one at a great discount. Note: This model includes an upgraded 512GB check: sold out @ B&H | sold out @ Amazon This MacBook Air is powered by Apple's M3 silicon. The laptop can support up to two external displays (when the laptop lid is closed) and Apple also claims its 60% faster than the M1-based MacBook Air. It boasts up to 18 hours of battery life. In our MacBook Air 13-inch M3 review, we called the Editor's Choice laptop a small wonder. It packs a 13.6-inch Liquid Retina display (2560 x 1664), Apple's M3 CPU w/ 8-core GPU, 24GB of RAM, and 512GB SSD. The new MacBook Air is powered by Apple's latest M4 chipset. The new Mac upgrades the camera from 1080p to 12MP with Center Stage support. The M4 chipset also supports dual external monitors, even when you have the laptop's lid open. It packs a 13.6-inch Liquid Retina display (2560 x 1664), Apple's M4 CPU w/ 10-core GPU, 16GB of RAM, and 256GB SSD. In our MacBook Air M4 review, we said the Editor's Choice laptop is irresistible thanks to its speedy performance, sharper camera, and lower starting price. Prefer a bigger screen? The 15-inch model is also on sale. It packs a 15.3-inch Liquid Retina display (2880 x 1864), Apple's M4 CPU w/ 10-core GPU, 16GB of RAM, and 256GB SSD.
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Business Standard
26-05-2025
- Business
- Business Standard
Apple Days Sale: Vijay Sales announces deals on MacBook Air M4, M2 models
Vijay Sales has announced deals on Apple MacBook Air devices powered by M4 and M2 chips, applicable during the Apple Days Sale. Here are the details iPhone 16, MacBook Pro M4, Apple Watch Ultra 2 New Delhi
