MacBook Pro 16-inch (2023) review: still an unbeatable laptop

The MacBook Pro 16-inch (2023) is now better than ever.

MacBook Pro 16-inch 2023 product shot
(Image: © Apple)

Our Verdict

The MacBook Pro 16-inch is better than ever, with this new iteration refining both power and performance. The Liquid Retina display is one of the brightest and best of any laptop, and now has micro LED backlighting. There are various ports and 22 hours of battery life. What's not to like?

For

  • Fast and efficient
  • Great design
  • Better battery life

Against

  • Quite bulky

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Launched alongside its 14-inch sibling in January, the MacBook Pro 16-inch (2023) doesn’t so much reinvent what Apple’s laptops can do as refines it, making it slicker and quicker than ever, while retaining all the things about the Apple silicon era we love – incredible performance and battery life, wrapped in a sophisticated and elegant portable package.

The entry-level MacBook Pro 16-inch  starts at $2,499 / £2,699 for a model equipped with a 12-core CPU, 19-core GPU M2 Pro, plus 16GB of unified memory and a 512GB SSD. Paying $200 / £200 more gets you an otherwise identical model equipped with a 1TB SSD, and the standard configurations top out at $3,499 / £3,749 for a MacBook Pro 16-inch equipped with a 12-core CPU, 38-core GPU, 16-core Neural Engine M2 Max, 32GB of unified memory and 1TB of solid-state storage.

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The Verdict
10

out of 10

Apple MacBook Pro 16-inch M2 (2023)

The MacBook Pro 16-inch is better than ever, with this new iteration refining both power and performance. The Liquid Retina display is one of the brightest and best of any laptop, and now has micro LED backlighting. There are various ports and 22 hours of battery life. What's not to like?

Rob Mead-Green

Rob is editor of MacFormat, the UK's leading Apple magazine. Having bought his first Mac in the early '90s, he's been evangelising Apple ever since, writing news, reviews and features for MacFormat as well as for over 40 other print and digital titles including T3, TechRadar and, of course, Creative Bloq. When he's not trying out the latest hardware and software, he's out taking photos with his iPhone or trying (and failing) to re-learn the guitar.