Like the iMac and Mac Mini videos, the new MacBook Pro videos are available on Apple’s website by clicking the “Watch Announcement” link on the product page or on the company’s YouTube channel. The video again begins with John Ternus, Apple’s senior vice president of engineering, making a hardware announcement. He says it’s “packed with professional features, Apple Intelligence, and more powerful Apple silicon than ever before.” Then he opened a new notebook and a gust of wind blew through his hair.
Trevor McLeod, senior engineering program manager for Mac Systems, then appeared and announced that the new entry-level M4 MacBook Pro, which still starts at $1,599, now comes in the Space Black color, previously reserved for high-end specs. I made it clear. McLeod said the new 14-inch M4 is up to 1.8x faster than the M1 for tasks like photo editing and has a Neural Engine that is “up to 3x more powerful than the M1,” which improves the performance of Apple Intelligence features. It is said that it is contributing to Like the iMac and Mac Mini, the MacBook Pro line also ditches the meager 8GB RAM base option and starts at 16GB for entry-level models with M4 chips.
The M4 Pro version of the MacBook Pro, on the other hand, has 24GB of RAM instead of the 18GB of the M3 Pro version. According to Tim Millet, Apple’s vice president of platform architecture, the high-end M4 Max chip option has 16 CPU cores and 40 GPU cores. Additionally, it has over 0.5 terabytes of unified memory bandwidth per second, which is “four times the bandwidth of the latest AI PC chips.” Apple also published CPU performance charts that promise the M4 Mac is 1.2x faster than the M3 Max.
