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.
Articles read Specifications and sources for the MacBook Pro M2 Pro (16-inch, 2023)
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.
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.
Different tests: shown, not compared
Apple’s claim
22 h, Apple TV app movie playback. Apple Support (UK) — MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2023) - Tech Specs, read 15 September 2026
Macworld’s measurement
27 hours later, from “I played a full-screen video on a continuous loop until the battery ran out”. Macworld
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.
Tony Polanco
Reviewed: 16-inch MacBook Pro, M2 Max, 96GB RAM, 4TB SSD
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.
You’ll get three Thunderbolt 4/USB-C ports, an SD card slot, and an HDMI port.
Roman Loyola
Tested: 16-inch MacBook Pro, M2 Pro (12-core CPU, 19-core GPU), 32GB unified memory, 2TB SSD
I played a full-screen video on a continuous loop until the battery ran out–which happened 27 hours later.
The reviewer’s own figure: 27 hours later, from “I played a full-screen video on a continuous loop until the battery ran out” (a looped-video battery test; the reviewer does not say it is the movie-playback or streaming test Apple names).
Matt Hanson
Reviewed: 16-inch MacBook Pro, M2 Pro chip
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.
As part of my review process, I typed up part of this review using the keyboard, and I didn’t have any issues at all.
The MacBook Pro 16-inch comes with three Thunderbolt 4 (USB-C) ports, a full-size HDMI port and SDXC memory card slot.