What reviewers said about theMacBook Pro (14-inch, M4, 2024)
1 review of this exact model; 2 of a sibling configuration (same chassis; a different chip or size, or the review does not state this Mac’s base chip with its CPU and GPU core counts), used for design topics only. Quotes are short, word for word, and each links to the article it came from. Every one was checked against that article on . MacIQ gives no score and no stars, and averages nothing.
A count of the reviews we quote on this page that have a quote on each topic, from the findings shown below. A review may say more on a topic than we quote, so it counts what is quoted here, not everything each review covers, and it says how often a topic is quoted, not what was said about it. Battery, performance and heat are counted over the 1 review of this exact model.
1 of 1 exact-model review we quote mentions battery life
1 of the 3 reviews we quote mentions display
1 of 1 exact-model review we quote mentions heat and fan noise
1 of the 3 reviews we quote mentions keyboard and trackpad
1 of the 3 reviews we quote mentions speakers
Where reviewers and Apple differ
A reviewer’s own figure beside Apple’s claim, each as its author printed it. Where the tests are of the same kind (web browsing, or the movie playback or streaming test Apple names, and only where the reviewer says so) that is said; where they are not, the two are shown and not compared. A video loop that the reviewer does not describe as Apple’s test, or ran from a stored or downloaded file, is shown, not compared. Figures are never ranked, subtracted or pooled across methods.
about 20 hours, from “playing a video saved to the SSD in a continuous loop until the battery runs out, with the display set to 150 nits”. Macworld
The reviews
Newest first, in the order of the date each article prints (which may be an update date, not a first-publication date). Each quote links to its article; the date is the one the article prints, labelled as the article labels it. “Published” and “Updated” appear only where the article prints that word beside the date; “Dated” means the article prints that date with no label, so the date itself does not say whether it is the first publication or an update. A later update that an article mentions only in an editor’s note is not used as its date.
The M4 MacBook Pro lasted about 20 hours in our test
The reviewer’s own figure: about 20 hours, from “playing a video saved to the SSD in a continuous loop until the battery runs out, with the display set to 150 nits” (a video-playback battery test run from a stored or downloaded file).
Heat and fan noise
the fans were not noticeable during the GPU test. The fans did kick in loudly during the CPU tests, though.
Reviewed: 14-inch MacBook Pro, base M4, 1TB SSD, nano-texture display
This is a different configuration of the same chassis. Only its comments on design are quoted here; its battery, performance and heat findings belong to the chip it tested.
Display
I love the glare-free nano-texture display, which is a game changer for working outdoors.
This is a different configuration of the same chassis. Only its comments on design are quoted here; its battery, performance and heat findings belong to the chip it tested.
Keyboard and trackpad
The full-sized backlit Magic Keyboard is a pleasure to use (I'm composing this review on it), with ample travel and a satisfying typing feel.
Speakers
the stereo speakers that straddle the keyboard deliver powerful, crisp, and clear audio that could provide the soundtrack for your party in a pinch.