
Apple has had a run of solid laptop releases over the last few years. Even the short-lived touch strip didn’t dent the reputation for performance blended with aesthetics, and each new generation of Apple silicon seems to live up to the promise. 2023’s MacBook Pro M3 Max makes similar claims, but is it just another iteration of the same format?
The answer to that is a resounding yes, but don’t be fooled into thinking that is a negative thing. The Macbook Pro format has been around for a long time now, with tweaks each year, some minor, others more significant. The clearest updates are almost always the processors which, since Apple’s move to its own silicon, has seen regular, large performance increases, solidifying the company's laptops claim to the top spots among the best laptops for graphic design, video editing and pretty much any resource-heavy creative task you can imagine.