The MacBook Pro is about as iconic as laptop design gets, and although there are thinner, lighter Windows alternatives out there (not to mention Apple’s less powerful MacBook Air), it’s still a perfectly compact, eminently mobile computer that looks gorgeous and is built to last. It also incorporates Apple’s infamous Touch Bar – a thin OLED touchstrip above the keyboard that can be customised to house DAW key commands, and is actually quite useful with Logic Pro X, housing transport buttons, Smart Controls, an auditioning keyboard and more. The 2020 13” MacBook Pro comes with a 1.4GHz Quad-Core Intel i5 CPU, 8GB RAM, a 256GB SSD and two ThunderBolt 3 (USB-C) ports at the bottom of the range, configurable all the way up to a 2.3GHz i7 with 32GB RAM, 4TB SSD and four ThunderBolt 3 (USB-C) ports. For connectivity and power, there’s a single USB-C port.
Apple, of course, would love you to partner it with their own Magic Keyboard (opens in new tab), which features a built-in trackpad. On its own, it’s a multitouch touchscreen device, but as of the latest version of iPad OS (13.14), it supports mice and trackpads, as well as keyboards, which have long been permitted. The iPad Pro comes in 11” and 12.9” versions (and that extra 1.9” makes a huge difference), with Apple’s A12Z Bionic 8-core CPU inside, clocked at 2.48GHz, and up to 1TB of storage. (Image credit: Apple) iPad Pro vs MacBook Pro: specifications