Op één of andere manier was het overzicht van de nieuwe MacBook Pro PROLED XDR modellen er bij ingeschoten. Daarom bij deze wat later dan je van MacFreak gewend bent, waarbij we het spreekwoord ‘beter laat dan nooit’ nog maar eens een keer uit de kast halen.

Hieronder vind je een overzicht van die reviews, eerst een aantal van YouTube, met daaronder links voor iedereen die liever alles in detail leest.





• Jason England voor Tom’s Guide

I criticize Apple for its exorbitant pricing — especially when it comes to the PROLED. But when it comes to performance and power efficiency gains, the conversation is over.

The Windows ecosystem is feeling the weight of local AI power demands, while Apple just casually dropped an impossibly thin, touchscreen OLED flagship that runs for nearly a full 24 hours.

• Devindra Hardawar voor Engadget

The MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Displays isn't exactly revolutionary for Apple, but it shows there's still plenty of room for the company to refine its designs even further. Both the 14-inch and 16-inch models feature OLED screens that are so beautiful to watch, you won't notice that the actual touchscreen experience is fairly basic. If you've already spent a ton on a recent standard MacBook Pro, though, there's no need to rush out and upgrade. Those systems still have great screens and they perform just as fast.

• Matt Hanson voor TechRadar

Apple has claimed the new 16-inch MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display lasts up to 24 hours on battery when streaming videos, and up to 17 hours when browsing the web, and I found those claims to be pretty much spot on, with the device lasting an incredible 24 hours and 21 minutes in our battery test, which involves playing a looped 1080p video at 50% brightness.

It blows past the MacBook Pro 16-inch (M4 Pro, 2024), which managed 21 hours and 32 minutes in the same test, and over double the 11 hours and 23 minutes the Asus ProArt P16 RTX Spark hit. The MacBook Pro is able to sustain its performance when on battery life, rather than throttling it to conserve energy, so you’ll be able to go multiple work days on a single charge while still being productive, though of course the battery will drain more quickly if you’re using it for more intensive tasks.

• Lori Grunin voor CNet

There are some potential drawbacks to OLED for color-critical work. I hadn’t really thought about drift — the tendency of the brightness and color of a screen to shift over time due to decay and wear on the pigments and backlight — for a while. Drift is the enemy of reference.

And OLED requires a lot of babying by a system to prevent not just burn-in, but the faster-than-usual, uneven degradation of the organic material. Apple is applying a handful of mechanisms for preserving accuracy and longevity, notably pixel-level correction and compensation in real time. But we’ll only know the practical drift characteristics after the display has been in the wild for a bit.

• Joe Osborne voor PCMag

By refining almost every aspect of its leading pro-grade laptop, Apple has maintained the 16-inch MacBook Pro's position as one of the top mobile workstations to beat. Much of this (not to mention the price) comes down to the vastly upgraded PROLED XDR display, which brings the most color coverage to a MacBook display, along with the best implementation of touch controls I've seen on a laptop screen.

• PetaPixel

The MacBook Pro with M5 Max was already a full recommendation, but Apple went and fixed the two complaints I had about that computer with this new PROLED model. I can’t find a flaw with this machine, and if you can afford it and need the performance it offers, then there is no reason not to take the plunge. And remember: you don’t have to touch it.