The 13-inch MacBook Pro doesn’t have MagSafe, which is on the new MacBook Air and the higher-end MacBook Pros. If you’re looking at Apple’s new 35W Dual USB-C Port Power Adapter or a 35W Dual USB-C Port Compact Power Adapter (both are $59 each) so you can charge two devices at the same time, know that Apple doesn’t list the MacBook Pro as a compatible device–the only laptops listed are the MacBook Air (2018 and later) and the 12-inch MacBook that was last sold in 2017. The 13-inch MacBook Pro ships with a 67W power adapter with a single USB-C port. That’s two hours less than what we experienced with the M1 MacBook Pro, but it’s still six hours more than what we found with Intel-based 13-inch MacBook Pros from 20. The 13-inch MacBook Pro charges through one of its two USB-C ports.Īpple claims 20-hour battery life for movie playback in the Apple TV app, and in our video playback test, it fell short at 16 hours. Naturally, we benchmarked the new laptop and compared the results to its predecessor, but we also took a look at how it compares to the 2020 M1 MacBook Air and the 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M1 Pro SoC. We have an article that examines the key differences between the M1 and M2 if you’re interested in diving into the details.

Its CPU architecture is based on its predecessor, the M1, with an 8-core CPU, but the four performance cores and four efficiency cores have improvements that enhance performance. The marquee feature of the new 13-inch MacBook Pro is the M2. This configuration is priced at $1,899, $400 more than the $1,499 standard configuration that comes with 8GB of memory and 512GB of storage. This review takes a look at the new 13-inch MacBook Pro with the following specifications:

On the outside, the new 13-inch M2 MacBook Pro (left) is exactly the same as its M1 predecessor.

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