Apple unveils new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 chip
Apple on Tuesday unveiled its new 14-inch MacBook Pro, powered by its latest M6 chip. The new MacBook Pro has 24 hours of battery life and now supports for Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6 connectivity. The laptop starts at $1,999 and is available in space black and silver.
Apple also announced its latest iMac, which is also powered by the M6 chip. The tech giant revealed the new devices just a day before its “Pro and Tell” event scheduled for Wednesday. On Monday, Apple announced its new iPad mini.
The tech giant says the M6 chip features a 12-core CPU with the world’s fastest CPU core and a 12-core GPU that delivers more responsive performance, up to 30% faster graphics, and up to 25% faster AI workloads compared with the M5 chip.
The M6 delivers up to 13 times the LLM prompt-processing speed of the M1 MacBook Pro and up to 1.3 times faster performance than the M5 model, Apple says.
The M6 MacBook Pro starts with 16GB of unified memory, configurable up to 32GB, and has memory bandwidth of up to 170GB/s, up from the 153GB/s on the M5 chip.
It includes HDMI, MagSafe 3, three Thunderbolt 4 ports, an SDXC card slot, and a headphone jack. Like previous models, the laptop features a 12-megapixel camera.
The M6 MacBook Pro supports fast charging, reaching up to 50% charge in 30 minutes with a compatible high-wattage USB-C power adapter.
As for the new M6-powered iMac, it features a faster CPU and GPU, with Neural Accelerators built into every core. Apple says the M6 delivers smooth multitasking and powerful performance for everyday apps, photo editing, and video production.
The new iMac starts at $1,499 and comes in blue, green, pink, yellow, purple, orange, and silver.
The company also notes that the new iMac delivers up to five times faster on-device AI performance than the M4 model. It features a 24-inch 4.5K Retina display, an advanced camera and audio system, up to four Thunderbolt 4 ports, color-matched accessories, and macOS 27.
Both the new MacBook Pro and iMac can be preordered starting October 28 and will be available starting November 6.
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