Let’s begin with the 14-inch MacBook Pro, which gets the blazing performance of M4 and brand-new capabilities.
It now comes in Silver and the incredibly popular Space Black. It’s great for entrepreneurs, students, creators, or for anyone doing what they love. M4 starts with an incredibly powerful 10-core CPU with four performance cores and six efficiency cores. And it has a 10-core GPU that features our most advanced graphics architecture.
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MacBook Pro M4 Pro Performance Boost
With M4, MacBook Pro is up to 1.8x faster than the 13-inch Pro with M1 for tasks like editing gigapixel photos. And even more demanding workloads like rendering complex scenes in Blender are up to 3.4x faster. And with a Neural Engine that’s over 3x more powerful than in M1, it’s great for features in Apple Intelligence like Writing Tools and other AI workloads.
With M4, you can now spread out over two high-resolution external displays in addition to the built-in display. And MacBook Pro with M4 has three Thunderbolt 4 ports, one more than before, so you can connect it all. Next, we’re super excited to give both the 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro a tremendous performance boost with M4 Pro.
It’s the ideal choice for researchers, developers, engineers, creative pros, or for anyone looking for much faster performance.
M4 Pro features a powerful CPU with 10 performance cores and four efficiency cores for a huge jump in multicore performance. And its 20-core GPU is twice as powerful as M4. And M4 Pro gets a massive 75 percent increase in memory bandwidth over the prior generation.
And it’s double that of any AI PC chip. So the new MacBook Pro is up to 3x faster than models with M1 Pro, speeding up a variety of workflows like geomapping, structural engineering, and data modeling. And intelligent features in Xcode, like predictive code completion and Swift Assist, can dramatically speed up software development.
Plus, Apple Intelligence will boost your productivity across the system. Here’s Allegra to tell you more. ♪ – MacBook Pro is the laptop that helps you push the limits of what you can do. And with Apple Intelligence, the personal intelligence system integrated into your MacBook Pro, you can push things even further.
Apple Intelligence on MacBook Pro: Enhancing Communication and Workflow
Apple Intelligence transforms MacBook Pro by enabling it to understand and create language, as well as images, and take action for you. And it does all of this while understanding the rich personal context on your Mac. It draws on the immense power of Apple silicon to run multiple generative models right on MacBook Pro.
And for even more complex tasks, Private Cloud Compute gives your MacBook Pro access to our larger server-based models, and gives you peace of mind that no one else can access your data, not even Apple. And in a first for the industry, independent experts can continually verify this promise. This is a groundbreaking approach to privacy, one that’s been described as radically different from any other AI system available.
No matter where you do your life’s best work, Apple Intelligence on MacBook Pro will change the game for how you communicate, express yourself, and get things done. In Notes, you can use live transcription to record a meeting and then quickly get a summary. This is incredibly handy for so many people, like a student who can use it to capture a study session for a classmate who couldn’t make it.
And Writing Tools can help you rewrite, proofread, or summarize whatever it is you’re working on, from everyday emails to your most important projects. They’re available virtually everywhere you type. That includes third-party apps that pros rely on every day. For example, if you’re a researcher who writes papers in Scrivener, you can access Writing Tools right within the app.
Use Summarization to draft an abstract in a matter of seconds. You’ll also be able to take an original image that you created in Image Playground and add it right into your paper.
It’s incredible how much these tools can accelerate your workflow. And there’s more. Apple Intelligence now powers a redesigned Siri experience that makes it easier than ever to get answers fast.
And Apple working to bring new capabilities to Siri that take things to another level. Once Siri can understand your personal context on your MacBook Pro, it will be able to provide responses tailored specifically to you. So when you’re deep in work and need to reference a piece of info your teammate shared a while back, you won’t have to switch gears and go digging; Siri will quickly get you the answer.
And in addition to using the personal context on your Mac to answer your questions, Siri will also be able to tap into ChatGPT’s expertise when it might be helpful. For example, need some insight into sustainable fabrics? Siri will get you that info right there. So that’s a look at a handful of the ways that Apple Intelligence can help you get more done on MacBook Pro.
And this is just the beginning. Apple Intelligence is available now with macOS Sequoia as a free software update in US English for most regions around the world. We’ll add localized English for these countries in December, and we’ll bring Apple Intelligence to many more languages next year. Now, we’ve got another way for you to push the limits even further on MacBook Pro.
To take the MacBook Pro to unprecedented heights, we have one more chip in the M4 family to introduce, and that’s M4 Max. M4 Max is a monster of a chip that pushes the boundaries of power-efficient performance. It features a powerful 16-core CPU complex, and just like M4 Pro, it has the world’s fastest CPU core.
M4 Max’s Performance and Capabilities
M4 Max has a 40-core GPU that’s twice the performance of the one in M4 Pro, and it has more than half a terabyte per second of unified memory bandwidth. That’s 4x the bandwidth of the latest AI PC chip. So M4 Max is amazing at running large language models.
The multithreaded CPU performance of M4 Max is up to 2.2x faster than M1 Max, and 2.5x faster than the latest AI PC chip. And its GPU is up to 1.9x faster than M1 Max, and an astounding 4x faster than the PC chip. So heavy workloads like denoising raw video footage in DaVinci Resolve Studio can now run in real-time. The Media Engine in M4 Max features two ProRes accelerators. So if you’re editing 4K 120 video from the new iPhone in Final Cut Pro, performance is outrageous.
Finally, M4 Max makes running on-device AI models faster than ever with the incredible Neural Engine that delivers over 3x faster performance than the one in M1 Max. So that’s M4 Max. With its incredible performance and capabilities, the M4 Max extends its lead as the most powerful chip for a pro laptop, and it joins the rest of the M4 family to form the most advanced lineup of chips ever built for a personal computer.
MacBook Pro M4 Max: Enhanced Performance and Gaming
With M4 Max in MacBook Pro, users can work on projects that were previously only possible on a desktop. It delivers up to 3.5x times the performance of M1 Max, and rips through the heaviest creative workloads, like visual effects, 3D animation, and film scoring.
And with up to 128 gigabytes of unified memory, developers can easily interact with LLMs that have nearly 200 billion parameters.
No other laptop comes close. The new MacBook Pro is an awesome laptop for gaming too, and exciting new titles are being added all the time, including “Assassin’s Creed Shadows,” which is launching in February. On the new MacBook Pro, it has incredibly realistic cinematic visuals and breathtaking scenery.
And “Cyberpunk 2077” is coming early next year. It’s one of the most graphically demanding and complex games ever created, with advanced features like path tracing, frame generation, and built-in Spatial Audio for immersive gameplay and even more stunning visuals.
MacBook Pro with M4 Pro or M4 Max also features Thunderbolt 5, which more than doubles transfer speeds, up to 120 gigabits per second.
MacBook Pro Battery Life And 12 mp stage Camera
So by connecting just a single cable, pros like music producers can now light up their entire studio. The industry-leading performance per watt of the M4 family means users get up to 24 hours of battery life, raising the bar of what they can do on a single charge. And MacBook Pro continues to deliver the same great performance, whether plugged in or on battery.
Next, the gorgeous XDR display gets even better. In bright lighting conditions, it can now show your SDR content at up to 1000 nits. And of course, it still displays HDR content at up to 1600 nits of peak brightness. We’re also introducing an all-new nano-texture display option, which significantly reduces reflections.
So it’s game-changing when working outside. MacBook Pro also gets a new 12-megapixel Center Stage camera, which keeps you centered in the frame. And it supports Desk View, which adds a whole new dimension to your video calls. With the new Pro, you’ll get monumental improvements over Intel-based MacBook Pro models, like the amazing features of Apple Intelligence, nearly 10x performance for AI-based pro workloads, up to a staggering 20x performance in graphics-intensive workloads, and up to 24 hours of battery life.
That’s up to 14 more hours than what you get on an Intel-based MacBook Pro. And you get all these great features, from the XDR display to the amazing six-speaker sound system. So now is a great time to upgrade. Finally, MacBook Pro has 100 percent fiber-based packaging, making further progress towards our environmental goals.
The New MacBook Pro Price And Features
So that’s the new MacBook Pro. With Apple Intelligence, the blazing performance of the M4 family, a nano-texture display option, and Thunderbolt 5, it gets even more powerful and even more pro.
the new MacBook Pro and Apple Intelligence. The 14-inch MacBook Pro with M4 now comes standard with 16GB of memory, which is double what it was before. And it will still start at $1599. The 16-inch MacBook Pro now comes with 24GB of memory, and it will continue to start at $2499.
You can pre-order it today and it’ll be available next week. So that’s the incredibly capable new MacBook Pro. We also have some news on MacBook Air. MacBook Air continues to be by far the world’s most popular laptop. And with Apple Intelligence, the best consumer laptop on the planet gets even better. Now on models with M2 and M3, we’re doubling the starting memory to 16GB, and keeping the starting price at just $999. It’s a terrific value for the world’s best-selling laptop. This was a big week of announcements for the Mac. The game-changing features of Apple Intelligence transform the Mac experience. So now you can communicate, express yourself, and quickly get things done like never before.
Apple silicon continues to lead the industry with the tremendous performance and capabilities of the M4 family of chips. The new iMac is even more powerful with M4 in its gorgeous array of new colors. It’s without question the world’s best all-in-one. The new Mac mini is more versatile than ever with the incredible performance of M4 and M4 Pro in its unbelievably compact design. And finally, the new MacBook Pro with great new features and the amazing performance of the M4 family continues to be by far the world’s best pro laptop
