
And once apps are up and running, they tend to be snappier and run smoother for longer amounts of time.

When Lory Gil reviewed the 13-inch MacBook Pro with M1, she said she could literally go two full work days before needing to plug it in for a charge.Īs far as performance goes, there is pretty much zero wait time when loading up apps, even the most resource-intensive ones. In fact, Apple has the 13-inch MacBook Pro with M1 battery life listed as up to 17 hours with just web browsing, or around 20 hours for video playback. This means you'll get the absolute best blazing fast performance while still being incredibly energy efficient. With the M1 chip in the 13-inch MacBook Pro (late-2020), you have an 8-core CPU with four cores for performance and another four efficiency cores. The M1 is a complete system-on-a-chip (SoC) that Apple makes.
