Apple's 2023 14-inch MacBook Pro strikes a winning balance between premium design and M3 Pro-powered performance, for a compact mobile workstation that trounces similarly priced Windows machines.

The 14-inch MacBook Pro with M3 boasts two USB-C/Thunderbolt 4 ports, plus an SXDC card slot, HDMI port and 3.5mm headphone jack. If you want more USB ports the M3 Pro verison includes three.

Once you upgrade the M3 model to 16 GB, the minimum I would consider okay for not only the price in 2023 but also for a "Pro" laptop, you are now only $200 from a M3 Pro MacBook Pro with 18 GB of ...