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Much the same goes for charging cases. They also output at 3.7 volts, while, again, smartphone batteries input at 5 volts, due to USB requirements. When combined with the inefficiency factor, they end up actually providing around 66% of their advertised charge.
That said, they may be slightly less inefficient than power banks, since they don’t require the use of cables and can instead plug directly into your phone. On the other hand, due to size constraints, their batteries are generally smaller than those of power banks, so you’re likely to get less juice out of them overall.
Now that Apple has updated the MacBook Pro 13 with the Magic Keyboard and double the storage, it has become more of a competitor to the MacBook Pro 16. But if you are thinking of getting a MacBook Pro, which should you buy?
In this guide, we will take you through the major differences between the two, explaining where each excels and stutters. By the end, you should have a much clearer view of which MacBook Pro is best for you.
Outside of price, performance is the single biggest difference between the MacBook Pro 16 and MacBook Pro 13. The larger laptop is leagues ahead here, but what does that mean in practice?
The core count is the first thing to consider. Every 13-inch MacBook Pro comes with a quad-core processor, including both the base level 8th-gen Intel chips and the 10th-gen chips that start at $1,799. The MacBook Pro 16, meanwhile, starts with a six-core, 16-thread processor. You can even bump the 16-inch up to a Core i9 eight-core chip. Each core is like having an extra player on your team. More cores mean more power at your disposal, like a football team with an extra player on the field.
Straight away, that gives the MacBook Pro 16 a big advantage, especially if you’re planning to use it for content creation or heavy applications. You can get away with running Photoshop or Lightroom on the 13-inch, but if you’re editing 4K video, you’ll want the extra cores and threads of the larger MacBook to speed up renders.
The MacBook Pro 16 also benefits from Apple’s completely redesigned cooling system. Apple claims this incorporates a heat sink that is 35% larger than on the previous-generation MacBook Pro, resulting in 28% better airflow. In our review, we said the difference was “astounding,” with the MacBook Pro 16 “[leaving] its predecessor in the dust in every benchmark and real-life test” we ran. The MacBook Pro 13 does not have this overhauled thermal system, meaning you are likely to eke much more performance out of the larger MacBook Pro.
That is the processor sorted, but what about graphics? Apple has traditionally reserved dedicated graphics chips for its larger laptops, partly due to the limited space available in the MacBook Pro 13, and partly to mark the bigger models as being more premium. That is no different in this comparison.
The MacBook Pro 16 has a few graphics options, including a 4GB AMD Radeon Pro 5300M, a 4GB AMD Radeon Pro 5500M, and an 8GB AMD Radeon Pro 5500M. The MacBook Pro 13, meanwhile, does not have a dedicated graphics option at all, instead having to rely on the Iris Pro Graphics provided by its 10th-generation Intel Ice Lake processors. While these integrated graphics chips are much improved over previous generation processors, they cannot compete with the AMD Radeon Pro graphics in the MacBook Pro 16.
The final consideration when it comes to performance is RAM. Here, the MacBook Pro 13 has improved compared to years past, offering up to 32GB of speedy 3,733MHz LPDDR4X memory. However, there is a notable caveat in that the speed (and amount) of RAM you get depends on your processor choice. The lower-priced MacBook Pro 13 models are stuck on 8th-generation Intel processors and are also limited to either 8GB or 16GB of slower 2,133MHz LPDDR3 memory. If you want the faster RAM — or up to 32GB of it — you need to buy one of the more expensive MacBook Pro 13 models that run 10th-generation Intel processors. We are pretty disappointed by that.
The MacBook Pro 16 has no such complications, as both of its models use 2,666MHz DDR4 memory. It is not quite as fast as the 3,733MHz RAM in the MacBook Pro 13, but RAM capacity makes more of a difference than RAM speed in most cases anyway. What is more important is that the MacBook Pro 16 offers up to 64GB of memory. That is more than most people need, but if you do require that much, the MacBook Pro 16 is your go-to choice.
Performance is an easy win for the MacBook Pro 16, but portability turns the tables. The MacBook Pro 13 measures 0.61 by 11.97 by 8.36 inches and weighs 3.1 pounds. In comparison, the MacBook Pro 16 comes in at 0.64 by 14.09 by 9.68 inches and weighs 4.3 pounds. That is the kind of difference you will notice if you sling one in a backpack and carry it around all day. Of course, three extra inches of screen real estate might be worth the weight for some.

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