The reassuringly expensive brand is hardly alone in building hardware deemed hard to mend, and in the pursurt of slimmer and lighter devices, the company's engineers have - at times - been a little too liberal with the glue and difficult-to-find screws.

While the new M4 MacBook Pros got a number of sweet quality of life upgrades, the new MacBooks looked about the same externally, except for the M4 MacBook Pro gaining an additional Thunderbolt port over the M3 model, something that the M3 Pro/M3 Max models already had.

The new M4 MacBook Pro, while boasting some quality-of-life updates, appears to remain nearly identical to its predecessor when it comes to internal design.

The M4 represents as much of a philosophical shift as it does a performance upgrade. It is Apple acknowledging that if you’re buying a laptop with “Pro” in the name, than it should be a better machine.

The Apple MacBook Pro M4 Max (2024) is the monster of the MacOS laptop world right now -- it's as good as it gets -- but is it worth what you'll be paying?