Apple MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2019, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports) vs Apple MacBook Pro 14″ (M4 Pro or M4 Max)
Better figure, where one is clearly better
| AppleMacBook Pro (13-inch, 2019, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports) | AppleMacBook Pro 14″ (M4 Pro or M4 Max) | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Released | July 2019 | November 2024 |
| Display | ||
| Screen size | 13.3″ | 14.2″ |
| Resolution | 2560 × 1600 | 3024 × 1964 (better) |
| Panel | IPS LCD | Mini-LED |
| Refresh rate | – | 120 Hz |
| Brightness | 500 nits | 1,000 nits (better) |
| HDR peak brightness | – | 1,600 nits |
| Touchscreen | No | No |
| Display type | LED-backlit Retina IPS; millions of colours | Liquid Retina XDR display |
| Pixel density | 227 ppi | 254 ppi |
| Colour range | P3 wide colour | Wide colour (P3); 1 billion colours |
| Screen finish | – | Standard, or nano-texture as an option |
| Display features | True Tone; scaled resolutions of 1680 × 1050, 1440 × 900 or 1024 × 640 | 1,000,000:1 contrast; 1,000 nits sustained full-screen XDR brightness; ProMotion up to 120 Hz, with fixed 47.95, 48, 50, 59.94 and 60 Hz rates; True Tone |
| Performance | ||
| Processor | Intel Core i5-8257U or Intel Core i7-8557U | Apple M4 Pro or Apple M4 Max |
| CPU cores | 4 | 12, 14 or 16 |
| CPU threads | 8 | – |
| Graphics | Intel Iris Plus Graphics 645 | 16-core GPU, 20-core GPU, 32-core GPU or 40-core GPU |
| Memory | 8 GB or 16 GB | 24 GB, 36 GB, 48 GB or 128 GB (better) |
| Storage | 128 GB to 2 TB | 512 GB to 8 TB (better) |
| CPU | Quad-core Intel Core i5 at 1.4 GHz with Turbo Boost up to 3.9 GHz, or Core i7 at 1.7 GHz with up to 4.5 GHz; both with 128 MB eDRAM. Exact i5-8257U identifier confirmed by Macworld and i7-8557U by Notebookcheck. Apple T2 Security Chip (Macworld). | M4 Pro: 12-core CPU with 8 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores, or 14-core CPU with 10 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores; M4 Max: 14-core CPU with 10 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores, or 16-core CPU with 12 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores |
| GPU | Intel Iris Plus Graphics 645 | 16-core or 20-core (M4 Pro), 32-core or 40-core (M4 Max) GPU with hardware-accelerated ray tracing; Media Engine with H.264, HEVC, ProRes and ProRes RAW acceleration and AV1 decode, with two video encode and two ProRes engines on M4 Max |
| AI engine | – | 16-core Neural Engine |
| Memory type | 2133 MHz LPDDR3 onboard memory; 8 GB standard or 16 GB option | Unified memory; M4 Pro takes 24GB or 48GB; M4 Max takes 36GB (14-core CPU) or 48GB, 64GB or 128GB (16-core CPU) |
| Memory bandwidth | – | 273 GB/s (M4 Pro), 410 GB/s (M4 Max with 32-core GPU) or 546 GB/s (M4 Max with 40-core GPU) |
| Storage type | SSD; 128 GB standard with 256 GB, 512 GB, 1 TB or 2 TB options; storage is fixed and cannot be upgraded internally (Macworld) | SSD, configurable up to 4 TB (M4 Pro) or 8 TB (M4 Max) |
| Battery and size | ||
| Battery life (maker's claim) | Up to 10 hours | Up to 22 hours |
| Battery capacity | 58.2 Wh | 72.4 Wh (better) |
| Weight | 1.37 kg (better) | 1.6 kg |
| Thickness | 14.9 mm (better) | 15.5 mm |
| Width × depth | 304.1 × 212.4 mm | 312.6 × 221.2 mm |
| Battery life detail | Up to 10 hours wireless web or iTunes movie playback, and up to 30 days standby; lithium-polymer. Weight varies by configuration and manufacturing process. | M4 Pro up to 22 hours video streaming and 14 hours wireless web; M4 Max up to 18 hours video streaming and 13 hours wireless web; lithium-polymer battery |
| Charger | 61 W USB-C Power Adapter | 70 W USB-C Power Adapter included with the 12-core-CPU M4 Pro; 96 W with the 14-core-CPU M4 Pro and M4 Max |
| Fast charging | – | With the 96 W USB-C Power Adapter |
| Materials | Aluminium enclosure (Laptop Mag) | 100% recycled aluminium enclosure; 35% recycled content overall |
| Colours | Silver, Space Grey | Space Black, Silver |
| Connections | ||
| Ports | 2 × Thunderbolt 3, headphone jack | 3 × Thunderbolt 5, HDMI, SD card slot, MagSafe 3, headphone jack |
| Wi-Fi | Wi-Fi 5 | Wi-Fi 6E |
| Bluetooth | 5.0 | 5.3 |
| Webcam | 720p FaceTime HD | 12MP Center Stage |
| Operating system | macOS | macOS |
| Port detail | Two USB-C ports support charging, DisplayPort, Thunderbolt 3 at up to 40 Gb/s and USB 3.1 Gen 2 at up to 10 Gb/s; 3.5 mm headphone jack | 3 × Thunderbolt 5 (USB-C) with charging, DisplayPort 2.1, Thunderbolt 5 and USB 4 (up to 120 Gb/s); HDMI (up to 8K 60 Hz or 4K 240 Hz) with multichannel audio output; SDXC card slot; MagSafe 3; 3.5 mm headphone jack with high-impedance headphone support |
| External displays | One 5120 × 2880 display at 60 Hz with over a billion colours; two 4096 × 2304 at 60 Hz with millions of colours; or two 3840 × 2160 at 60 Hz with over a billion colours, alongside the built-in display. Separate adaptors for VGA, HDMI, DVI or Thunderbolt 2. | M4 Pro up to two at 6K 60 Hz over Thunderbolt, or one at 6K 60 Hz over Thunderbolt and one at 4K 144 Hz over HDMI, or one at 8K 60 Hz or 4K 240 Hz over HDMI; M4 Max up to four (three at 6K 60 Hz over Thunderbolt and one at 4K 144 Hz over HDMI), or three (two at 6K 60 Hz plus one at 8K 60 Hz or 4K 240 Hz over HDMI); all alongside the built-in display |
| Keyboard | Full-size backlit keyboard with 64 US or 65 ISO keys, four arrow keys, ambient light sensor and Touch Bar; butterfly mechanism (Laptop Mag) | Backlit Magic Keyboard, 78 (US) or 79 (ISO) keys including 12 full-height function keys |
| Trackpad | Force Touch with pressure sensing, Force clicks, accelerators, pressure-sensitive drawing and Multi-Touch gestures | Force Touch trackpad |
| Speakers | Stereo speakers with high dynamic range | High-fidelity six-speaker sound system with force-cancelling woofers; wide stereo; Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos |
| Microphones | Three microphones | Studio-quality three-mic array with directional beamforming |
| Biometrics | Touch ID integrated into the Touch Bar | Touch ID |
| In the box | MacBook Pro; 61 W USB-C Power Adapter; USB-C Charge Cable (2 m) | 14-inch MacBook Pro, 70 W (12-core-CPU M4 Pro) or 96 W USB-C Power Adapter, USB-C to MagSafe 3 Cable (2 m), polishing cloth (nano-texture display only) |
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