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Hey, what's up and welcome back. In some of my previous videos I have talked about my experiences
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with the 13-inch M1 MacBook Pro from the perspective of a programmer and as someone
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who makes these YouTube videos. Today I wanted to come back around and share my experiences now with
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the 14-inch M1 Pro MacBook that I purchased and how that compares to the 13-inch that I
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own previously. One of the things that I really like is that the newer model definitely has kind
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of that vintage boxy look. It reminds me a lot of my very first MacBook Pro that I got back in 2011
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that was chunkier. Now the thickness of this MacBook Pro is pretty much the same, it's just
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that the previous models had more of a taper closer to the edges and so it felt like it was
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thinner whereas this is more consistent thickness across. I really like that aesthetic. Another
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thing is I really thought it was going to bug me having the little notch in the top where the
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camera is going to be, but as I've been using it I find that it actually doesn't bother me that much
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and maybe that's just because I'm used to that on my phone, but I think that is really kind of
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trivial and non-issue. Especially when the notch actually is positioned inside of the top header
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that has the menu options and things like that, so I just generally don't feel like it gets in the way
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of anything unless I'm going to full screen. Oh, and I do not miss that touch bar at all. It is so
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nice having all keys here. Definitely a huge improvement and I am so glad that they got away
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with that, I just did not really like that feature on the previous versions. And I really like the
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14 inch size. Now I have a 15 inch and I also have a 13 inch and the 15 inch is great, has a lot of
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screen space, but it's heavier and bulkier, a little bit more annoying to carry around, and so I really
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like the form factor of the 13 inch. Just how light it is, be able to put it in a smaller bag and
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take it with me on the go. Well, the 14 inch is nice because you get a bigger screen, but because
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it has the smaller black bezels around the edges of the screen, the overall size of the laptop isn't
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much bigger than my 13 inch, yet the screen is noticeably bigger, gives me a lot more space to
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work on. When programming, I use a single external monitor. It's an ultra wide one, so I've been able
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to get by just fine with the 13 inch M1 MacBook Pro, but I did end up having to get a pretty
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decent hub in order to have more ports to hook in my external SSDs and also to use my SD cards
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for when I'm doing video editing. Having all the extra ports again on the MacBook Pro is just so
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so, so nice and I definitely think that any software engineers who want to do the dual monitors
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will definitely appreciate this newer laptop. I'm also really glad that they brought back the MagSafe
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charging port because there's been a number of times where I've accidentally snagged a USB-C cable
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and it's almost pulled my laptop off my desk and that would be a horrible thing if I broke my
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MacBook, whereas the MagSafe just pops right off. On the 14 inch M1 Pro, I did decide to go with 32
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gigabytes of RAM compared to the 16 that I had on my 13 inch M1 MacBook Pro, and both of them have
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run dead quiet. I hardly hear anything at all. I think there's only been one time on the 13 inch
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that I ever heard any kind of like revving up or whatnot. Both have been dead quiet while I've been
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doing both video editing and web development. Now, there are some areas of software development
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that are going to be much more taxing than web development, and so it is possible that someone
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will max out and notice the difference between these two as a programmer, but if I'm being honest
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here, I have not felt really any difference when it comes to like web development between the two
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It hasn't been anything noticeable for me. I am the type of person who has hundreds of Chrome
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tabs open and I haven't noticed any significant problems, but something that you do need to be
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aware of is that when you are using Apple's migration tool and migrating from an older
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Intel MacBook Pro, it is going to bring over the Intel version of Chrome and that is going to be
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super painfully slow and it's going to be really frustrating. So what you need to do there is you
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need to delete Chrome, go download the M1 version of Chrome, and you'll be back in business and it'll
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be working fine. Since I do make these videos for YouTube, I can say that I've noticed that
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when it comes to video editing and handling the editing timelines, the 14 inch has been better
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and faster at rendering, though the 13 inch is no slouch by any means. However, when it comes to
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doing any kind of photo work in Photoshop or Illustrator or applications like that, I really
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haven't noticed much of a difference. Now, I mostly use those tools for either creating these thumbnails
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for these videos or for just editing some of my photos and also for creating digital assets for
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web development. Now, I'm not any kind of like super user, so we are not talking like hundreds
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of layers here. If you start going down that path, then you might actually see a difference between
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these two. But for the average Joe, I just haven't really noticed much of a difference when it
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comes to photo editing. But let's be honest here, I was getting by just fine with the 13 inch MacBook
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Pro. If I did not own either of these, for sure 100% I would say go for the 14 inch MacBook Pro
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If you already have the 13 inch and are thinking about upgrading, then it really kind of comes down
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to do you want to have more ports in order to be able to do things like have the dual monitors and
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not have to worry about any hubs. Or if you're going to be doing video editing and you want to
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eek out some extra performance there, then it could be a great option. I definitely like the upgrade
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I also think you should check out this video up here. Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next one. Lates
