There’s 40% less hiss, so you should feel comfortable recording podcasts and definitely feel more confident when you’re on conference calls. If you create content, the 16-inch MacBook Pro sports a studio-quality, 3-mic array that’s designed to rival the best dedicated Yeti mics out there. The soundtrack had a thunderous base, and yet the laser fire blasts were still so powerful I felt like they were going to come through the screen. I then played The Mandalorian trailer, and the audio blew me away. When I fired up Lizzo’s Good as Hell on Spotify and maxed out the volume, the 16-inch MacBook Pro filled our video studio with her soaring vocals. You get amazing sound quality without the distortion or vibration that can plague other laptops.

The 16-inch MacBook Pro looks very much like other MacBook Pros we’ve reviewed, complete with a comically large touchpad and a solid but unexciting aluminum design in your choice of two colors: Silver and Space gray. Design: Similar footprint but a bit heftier The panel on the 16-inch MacBook Pro is one of the most accurate around, as it turned in a Delta-E score of 0.27. The OLED version of the HP Envy x360 reached 258%. However, the OLED and non-OLED version of the XPS 15 scored 239% and 210%, respectively. The 16-inch MacBook Pro's screen can reproduce 113.9% of the sRGB color gamut, which is good. The HP Envy x360 15 with OLED was also very bright at 483 nits, while the Razer Blade Pro 17 averaged only 267 nits. The OLED panel on the Dell XPS 15 reached 626 nits, and the non-OLED 4K display on that Dell notebook hit 418 nits. On our lab tests, the 16-inch MacBook Pro's display registered 429 nits, which is very bright but below Apple's 500-nit rating for the screen.

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