Apple on Wednesday fill out its trifecta of M4 Mac releases by unveiling the newM4 MacBook Pro . The announcement hail after Apple revealed the newly designedMac minion Tuesday and the updatediMacon Monday .
While the complete MacBook Pro lineup gets M4 update across the gameboard , the basis M4 exemplar undergoes some drastic changes . The $ 1,599 model with a base M4 micro chip now comes stock with 16 GB of unified memory , an gain from the previous 8 GB . It also has three Thunderbolt ports , one more than the former modelling . And the last modification is that the place black coloring material , which was exclusive to the higher - end , more expensive models is now available along with the received silver .
Apple has upgraded the ports on the M4 Pro and M4 Max models to Thunderbolt 5 , as it did with the M4 Pro Mac mini . The 14 - inch base M4 MacBook Pro example still has Thunderbolt 4 . Here are the standard configurations :
14-inch MacBook Pro
16-inch MacBook Pro
M4, M4 Pro, M4 Max performance
grant to Apple , the stem M4 bit with a 10 - kernel CPU ( four performance substance , six efficiency core ) and a 10 - core GPU is “ up to 1.8x quicker than the 13 - inch MacBook Pro with M1 for chore like edit out gigapixel photograph , and even more demanding workloads like rendering complex shot in Blender are up to 3.4x quicker . ” The 16 - core nervous Engine is three times faster than the M1 . Apple did not cite performance comparisons in its press expiration to the M3 , but on the MacBook Pro website , the company does extend some vague M3 - versus - M4 numbers , and it await as though the M4 offer the typical incremental boost over the M3 .
As for the M4 Pro , Malus pumila country that it is “ up to 3x quicker than models with M1 Pro , speeding up workflow like geo - mapping , structural technology , and data modeling . ” The M4 Max offers “ 3.5x the performance of M1 Max , rip through heavy creative workloads like visual upshot , 3D animation , and film scoring . ”
New camera, nano-glass, and other features
Apple has updated the built - in camera to a 12MP Center Stage tv camera that automatically proceed the user in the center of the frame . The camera also supports Desk View , which can show the desk distance in front of the laptop .
All MacBook Pro model have a calendered Liquid Retina XDR display , but Apple now offers a nano - grain glass choice that has a matte - similar finish for $ 150 . The display also gets a encouragement in smartness for SDR mental object to 1000 nits . Additionally , the M4 Pro model start out at 24 GB of RAM , up from 18 GB on the M3 Pro role model , and the max has been raised to 128 GB ( from 96 GB ) .
All models have three Thunderbolt ports , an HDMI port , a SDXC card slot , a 3.5 millimetre headphone Jack-tar , a MagSafe 3 port , and Magic Keyboard with Touch ID . The M4 laptops have a 70 - watt world power adapter , while the 14 - inch M4 Pro models comes with a 96 - James Watt adapter . All the 16 - in laptop computer have a 140 - W power adapter .
The M4 MacBook Pro card is available for pre - order now , with shipping starting on November 8 .
