The Finance World Magazine| Edition: April 2023

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Apple M2 Max MacBook Pro 16 inch
Apple’s update to the 16-inch
MacBook Pro adds the M2
Max to an already fantastic
notebook, a change to satisfy
creators and power users.
The 16-inch MacBook Pro is the
powerhouse in the portable Mac range.
Its position as the largest notebook in the
catalog and its ability to be configured
with a powerful chip makes it desirable
for creators and power users.
With the introduction of the M2 Max
edition, Apple’s following a tried-and-true
formula of a specification bump while
ironing out the kinks that come with a
radical new design. With the previous
generation being so good, there’s little
that it can change to improve things for
consumers, so it didn’t attempt to break
what wasn’t already broken.
Instead, the M2 Max version can be
characterized simply as a performance
boost to a high-performance notebook.
It has a 12-core CPU, a built-to-order
38-core GPU along with 64GB of unified
memory, and 1TB of SSD storage.
M2 Max comes with a 16.2-inch
Liquid Retina XDR display with mini-
LED backlighting. This screen offers a
massive 1,000 nits of sustained full-screen
brightness, with 1,600 nits at a peak for
HDR content.
The M2 Max base configuration includes
a 12-core CPU with eight performance and
four efficiency cores. It also includes a
16-core Neural Engine, improved from last
time, and a massive 400GB/s of memory
bandwidth for its unified memory.
Also, M2 Max has a trio of three
Thunderbolt 4 ports, with two on the right
and one on the left. These can handle
40Gbps Thunderbolt 4 and USB 4 and
act as a DisplayPort or HDMI connection
with the right cabling. You can also use
the Thunderbolt ports for charging, which
is handy if you have a dock with power
delivery and don’t want to use MagSafe
3. Speaking of MagSafe, Apple includes
a color-matched Space Gray cable with
the darker laptop this time. MagSafe 3
can deliver up to 140W with Apple’s 140W
GaN USB-C PD 3.1 power brick.
The introduction of Apple Silicon
brought a new low-power way of working,
with a considerable increase in battery
run time. That’s gone through a slight
improvement to become even better.
Apple claims the integrated 100-watthour
lithium polymer battery can last
up to 22 hours of Apple TV app movie
playback, up from 21 hours in the previous
generation. Meanwhile, wireless web
surfing reaches up to 15 hours, up from
14 hours.
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