Apple today unveiled the new MacBook Pro, powered by the M4 family of chips — The M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max. The The new MacBook Pro is available in space black and silver finishes.
The base model 14-inch MacBook Pro is powered by the M4 and boasts three Thunderbolt 4 ports, starting with 16GB of memory, at a price of $1,599. Meanwhile, the 14- and 16-inch models with M4 Pro and M4 Max is equipped with Thunderbolt 5 ports. All MacBook Pro models are equipped with a Liquid Retina XDR display with an all-new nano-texture display option and up to 1000 nits of brightness for SDR content. The new laptops also boast an advanced 12MP Center Stage camera, and up to 24 hours of battery life.
“MacBook Pro is an incredibly powerful tool that millions of people use to do their life’s best work, and today we’re making it even better,” said John Ternus, Apple’s senior vice president of Hardware Engineering. “With the powerful M4 family of chips, and packed with pro features like Thunderbolt 5, an advanced 12MP Center Stage camera, an all-new nano-texture display option, and Apple Intelligence, the new MacBook Pro continues to be, by far, the world’s best pro laptop.”
New 14-inch MacBook Pro with M4
The 14-inch MacBook Pro with M4 features a more powerful 10-core CPU, with four performance cores and six efficiency cores, and a faster 10-core GPU with Apple’s most advanced graphics architecture. The new MacBook Pro starts with 16GB of RAM, with support for up to 32GB, along with 120GB/s of memory bandwidth.
Apple says the M4 MacBook Pro is up to 1.8x faster than the 13-inch MacBook Pro with M1 for tasks like editing gigapixel photos, and rendering complex scenes in Blender are up to 3.4x faster. The M4’s Neural Engine is more than 3x more powerful than in M1. The M4 model offers support for two high-resolution external displays in addition to the built-in display, and now features three Thunderbolt 4 ports.
MacBook Pro with M4 delivers:
- Up to 7x faster image processing in Affinity Photo when compared to the 13‑inch MacBook Pro with Core i7, and up to 1.8x faster when compared to the 13-inch MacBook Pro with M1.
- Up to 10.9x faster 3D rendering in Blender when compared to the 13‑inch MacBook Pro with Core i7, and up to 3.4x faster when compared to the 13‑inch MacBook Pro with M1.
- Up to 9.8x faster scene edit detection in Adobe Premiere Pro when compared to the 13‑inch MacBook Pro with Core i7, and up to 1.7x faster when compared to the 13‑inch MacBook Pro with M1.
MacBook Pro with M4 Pro
The MacBook Pro with M4 Pro features a 14-core CPU with 10 performance cores and four efficiency cores, as well as an up to a 20-core GPU that is twice as powerful as M4. The M4 Pro-powered MacBook Pro gets a 75% increase in memory bandwidth over the prior generation. The new MacBook Pro with M4 Pro is up to 3x faster than models with M1 Pro.
MacBook Pro with M4 Pro offers:
- Up to 4x faster scene rendering performance with Maxon Redshift when compared to the 16-inch MacBook Pro with Core i9, and up to 3x faster when compared to the 16-inch MacBook Pro with M1 Pro.
- Up to 5x faster simulation of dynamical systems in MathWorks MATLAB when compared to the 16-inch MacBook Pro with Core i9, and up to 2.2x faster when compared to the 16-inch MacBook Pro with M1 Pro.
- Up to 23.8x faster basecalling for DNA sequencing in Oxford Nanopore MinKNOW when compared to the 16-inch MacBook Pro with Core i9, and up to 1.8x faster when compared to the 16-inch MacBook Pro with M1 Pro.
MacBook Pro with M4 Max
MacBook Pro with M4 Max brings up to a 16-core CPU, up to a 40-core GPU, over half a terabyte per second of unified memory bandwidth, and a Neural Engine that is over 3x faster than M1 Max, delivering up to 3.5x the performance of M1 Max. It also supports up to 128GB of unified memory, so developers can easily interact with LLMs that have nearly 200 billion parameters. The powerful Media Engine in M4 Max features two ProRes accelerators.
MacBook Pro with M4 Max enables:
- Up to 7.8x faster scene rendering performance with Maxon Redshift when compared to the 16-inch MacBook Pro with Intel Core i9, and up to 3.5x faster when compared to the 16-inch MacBook Pro with M1 Max.
- Up to 4.6x faster build performance when compiling code in Xcode when compared to the 16‑inch MacBook Pro with Intel Core i9, and up to 2.2x faster when compared to the 16‑inch MacBook Pro with M1 Max.
- Up to 30.8x faster video processing performance in Topaz Video AI when compared to the 16‑inch MacBook Pro with Intel Core i9, and up to 1.6x faster when compared to the 16-inch MacBook Pro with M1 Max.
Pricing and Availability
- Customers can pre-order the new MacBook Pro starting today, October 30, on apple.com/store and in the Apple Store app in 28 countries and regions, including the U.S. It will begin arriving to customers, and will be in Apple Store locations and Apple Authorized Resellers, beginning Friday, November 8.
- The 14-inch MacBook Pro with M4 starts at $1,599 (U.S.) and $1,499 (U.S.) for education; the 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M4 Pro starts at $1,999 (U.S.) and $1,849 (U.S.) for education; and the 16‑inch MacBook Pro starts at $2,499 (U.S.) and $2,299 (U.S.) for education. All models are available in space black and silver.
- Additional technical specifications, including the nano-texture display and configure-to-order options, are available at apple.com/mac.
- MacBook Air with M2 and M3 comes standard with 16GB of unified memory, and is available in midnight, starlight, silver, and space gray, starting at $999 (U.S.) and $899 (U.S.) for education.
- New accessories with USB-C — including Magic Keyboard ($99 U.S.), Magic Keyboard with Touch ID ($149 U.S.), Magic Keyboard with Touch ID and Numeric Keypad ($179 U.S.), Magic Trackpad ($129 U.S.), Magic Mouse ($79 U.S.), and Thunderbolt 5 Pro Cable ($69) — are available at apple.com/store.
