Apple has announced its new 14-inch MacBook Pro which is powered by its new M6 chip to dramatically improve its performance and offer even higher AI capabilities.
The new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 is aimed at university students, business users, creators, researchers and other high-end users.
The M6 chip has a 12-core GPU with up to 30 per cent faster graphics and up to 25 per cent faster AI workloads than the M5.
If you’re upgrading from the M1, the performance improvements are significant, with up to 11x faster graphics and up to 13x faster AI performance.
“The 14-inch MacBook Pro is the pro laptop of choice for a wide range of users — from university students to business professionals across every industry, to multidisciplinary creators doing it all on one device,” said Shelly Goldberg, Apple’s vice president of Hardware Engineering.
“With the powerful M6 chip, we’re taking performance to the next level, with a boost in CPU speed and graphics and even more powerful capabilities for on-device AI.
“With its amazing battery life, remarkable Liquid Retina XDR display, and even faster connectivity, the new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 delivers a fantastic combination of performance, capability, and value.”
The MacBook Pro with M6 has a 12-core CPU, a 12-core GPU with neural accelerators in each core, a dual 16-core neural engine and faster unified memory.
This is a device designed to handle 3D modelling and photo and video editing while offering blazing speeds for gaming, which are enhanced by a third-generation ray tracing engine and dynamic allocation to optimise the on-chip memory.
On-device AI workloads are 25 per cent faster compared to the M5.
The Neural Engine does the heavy lifting to power Apple Intelligence which offers advanced and energy-efficient on-device AI processing.
The MacBook Pro with M6 comes with 16GB of unified memory but is configurable up to 32GB with a higher memory bandwidth of up to 170GB/s which makes multitasking and working with high-end apps and large projects even faster.
The 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 enables:3
– Up to 13x faster time to first token performance for LLM prompt processing compared to the 13-inch MacBook Pro with M1, and up to 1.3x faster than the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M5.
– Up to 11.7x faster render performance with ray tracing in Blender compared to the 13-inch MacBook Pro with M1, and up to 1.3x faster than the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M5.
– Up to 3.3x faster image-processing performance in Affinity compared to the 13-inch MacBook Pro with M1, and up to 1.2x faster than the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M5.
– Up to 2.5x faster project build performance when compiling code in Xcode compared to the 13-inch MacBook Pro with M1, and up to 1.3x faster than the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M5.
The MacBook Pro with M6 offers a massive improvement in battery life, with up to 14 additional hours for Intel-based upgraders and up to 4 more hours for users coming from the M1.
The new MacBook Pro with M6 also supports fast charging and can hit 50 per cent charge in just 30 minutes when paired with a higher-wattage USB-C power adapter.
It has a stunning Liquid Retina XDR display with 1,600 nits of peak HDR brightness and a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio.
It also features an advanced camera, microphone, and speakers and has a 12 MP Centre Stage camera with desk view to help keep users centred on video calls. Studio-quality mics and a six-speaker sound system with spatial audio offer a tremendous audio experience.
On the connectivity side it now has Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6 and can support up to two external displays.
PRICING AND AVAILAIBILITY
The 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 is available for preorder from October 29 and will go on sale on Friday, November 6.
Prices start at $3,199.
