Apple’s 2024 report card: the Mac 💻
This is the third in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I did this last year and you can read last year’s Mac report card here.
The MacBook Pro continues to get a relentless stream of updates, as the only Mac in Apple’s lineup that’s gotten new version for every single generation of Apple silicon so far, and 2024 saw a pretty great update to the line. The base M4 version of the product felt more aligned with the rest of the Pros by getting more ports and better monitor support. The M4 Pro chip was a wonderful bounce back from the M3 Pro’s near regression over the M2 Pro, and the M4 Max continues to be an absolute beast in laptop form factor.
Forgive my language here, but the MacBook Pros were really fucking good this year, and it’s not that big of a story because the MacBook Pros have been really fucking good every year since 2021 now so we’re just used to it.
The MacBook Air has also been exceptionally good for years now, and the update to the M3 processor this year was a little more muted than the Pro updates, although there was a surprise update that made me really happy.
