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Everything A Software Engineer Should Know About The M2 Pro MacBook Pro
None of the fluff, just the things that matter to coders. Should you get the new M2 Pro MacBook Pro, or should you not?
I’ve been sitting on this article for an uncharacteristically long time. At the time of writing, Apple’s new M2 Pro and M2 Max machines have been out for two weeks, and yet my review of it from a software engineering perspective is nowhere to be seen. There are several excellent reasons for that. I wanted to write an article that’s actually useful to software engineers, one that would help you make up your mind about whether this is the right machine for you or not. I wanted software engineers who stumble upon this article to make a truly informed decision.
But I cannot do that by throwing some numbers around. Benchmarking how quickly Xcode compiles an app, how smooth is running Flutter apps, what kind of web development scores this machine renders. 95% of software developers never ran those benchmarks themselves, either because they never cared about them, or because never felt their machines were slow and needed to know just how slow they were. To that effect, this review of the 14” M2 Pro MacBook Pro will be somewhat different from everything else out there, and even my own previous reviews. I will be providing you with two major perspectives, depending on whether you’re still rocking an Intel machine or you have already moved to Apple Silicon.
If, for whatever reason, you stumbled upon this article, and you’re not a software developer, you are still welcome to continue reading, but I think you’d get much more out of reading my more general review of this machine, or even my pragmatic comparison article between the M2 Air and the M2 Pro.
