New 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Professional fashions with the newest M2 Professional and ‌M2‌ Max chips can be found in Apple retail shops and are already within the palms of consumers, and we picked up one of many new ‌M2‌ Max machines to reply the entire questions MacRumors readers contemplating a purchase order might need.

Yesterday, we requested MacRumors followers on Twitter what they wished to know concerning the new ‌M2‌ Professional and ‌M2‌ Max MacBook Professional machines, and we acquired all types of questions on whether or not it is well worth the improve, how the SSD performs, what RAM decisions may be finest based mostly on utilization wants, how sizzling it runs, and extra.

MacRumors videographer Dan solutions all of these questions and extra within the video up above, so be sure to look at it. Have one other query we did not cowl? Tell us within the feedback.

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