Apple has updated its 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro, introducing versions with more powerful M4 Pro processors (which debuted yesterday as part of Mac Mini) and M4 Max. The entry-level 14-inch MacBook Pro also received a small update in the form of an additional USB-C / Thunderbolt 4 port on the right side and a «space black» color option.
At the end of 2024, Apple finally mercifully increased the amount of RAM in the base MacBook Pro from 8 GB to 16 GB. Also from the new, the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro with M4 Pro / Max chips are also the first Mac laptops with Thunderbolt 5 ports. All three MacBook Pro come with new 12-megapixel webcams, and each can be equipped with a new nanotextured display capable of delivering up to 1000 nits of brightness in SDR and up to 1600 nits in HDR.
But the main difference from its predecessors is the new processors. Apple claims that the entire M4 chip generation has «the world’s fastest CPU core» and «the industry’s best single-threaded performance». Single-core performance has been a strong point of Apple’s Mac chips since the M1 generation, and the M4 chips promise to have «significantly higher multi-threaded performance». The M4 Pro and M4 Max also have faster GPU cores with a ray tracing engine that runs twice as fast. The neural unit is also 2x faster than its M3 generation counterpart for improved machine learning and AI workloads.
Like the previous models, MacBook Pro laptops with M4 Pro will start at $1999 for the 14-inch version. The 16-inch again starts at $2499, but it gets an upgrade to 24GB of RAM. The basic 14-inch M4 MacBook Pro (already with 16 GB of memory) still starts at $1599.
Source: The Verge
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