Apple has refreshed its 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models, introducing versions equipped with more powerful M4 Pro processors (which debuted yesterday as part of the Mac Mini) and M4 Max. The entry-level 14-inch MacBook Pro has also received a minor update, featuring an additional USB-C / Thunderbolt 4 port on the right side and a new color option in "space black."
At the end of 2024, Apple finally increased the base RAM in the MacBook Pro from 8 GB to 16 GB. Additionally, the new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros with M4 Pro / Max chips are the first Mac laptops to include Thunderbolt 5 ports. All three MacBook Pro models come equipped with new 12-megapixel webcams, and each can be configured with a new nano-textured display, capable of delivering up to 1000 nits of brightness in SDR and up to 1600 nits in HDR.
The most significant upgrade over previous models is the new processors. Apple claims that the entire M4 chip generation features the "world's fastest CPU core" and "best-in-class single-threaded performance." Single-core performance has been a strong suit of Apple chips since the M1 generation, and the M4 chips promise to offer "significantly higher multi-core performance." The M4 Pro and M4 Max also come with faster GPU cores featuring ray tracing, operating twice as fast. The neural engine is also twice as fast as its M3 predecessor, enhancing machine learning and AI workloads.
Similar to previous models, the MacBook Pro laptops with M4 Pro start at $1999 for the 14-inch variant. The 16-inch model again starts at $2499 but gets an upgrade to 24 GB of RAM. The base 14-inch M4 MacBook Pro (now with 16 GB of memory) still starts at $1599.
Source: The Verge
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