You’ve been hankering for an M3-based Mac notebook, and over at its “Scary Fast” media event, Apple announced that your wishes are about to come true.
On Monday, the company announced its next-gen 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro notebooks. The units feature the new M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max chips, which also debuted at the event.
Every model of the new lineup features a Liquid Retina XDR display with 20 percent brighter SDR content, a built-in 1080p camera, and a six-speaker sound system. The new MacBook Pros offer up to 22 hours of battery life as well. The display also features 1,000 nits sustained and 1,600 nits of peak brightness for HDR content.
Where the M3 chip is concerned, the standard M3 chip has up to an 8-core CPU and up to a 10-core GPU, the M3 Pro chip has up to a 12-core CPU and up to an 18-core GPU, and the M3 Max chip has up to a 16-core CPU and up to a 40-core GPU. The M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max chips support up to 24GB, 36GB, and 128GB of unified memory, respectively.
Apple went on to say that the 14-inch M3 MacBook Pro is up to 60 percent faster than the 13-inch M1 MacBook Pro. It also stated that the 14-inch and 16-inch M3 Pro MacBook Pro is up to 40 percent faster than the 16-inch model with M1 Pro. For power users, the 14-inch and 16-inch M3 Max MacBook Pro models offer up to 2.5x faster speeds than the 16-inch MacBook Pro with M1 Max, and up to 11x faster speeds than the fastest Intel-based MacBook Pro.
The M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max chips are built using a 3-nanometer production process and offer a faster, more efficient GPU. The chips also boast “Dynamic Caching” technology, meaning the GPU allocates the use of local memory in hardware in real-time, ensuring only the exact amount of memory needed is used for each task.
Apple also introduced a new Space Black color for the upcoming MacBook Pro lineup, although only the M3 Pro and M3 Max versions of the notebook are available in this color. The company stated that the finish greatly reduces fingerprints thanks to an anodization seal. The M3 Pro and M3 Max models also come in Silver, and the 14-inch M3 model comes in Silver and Space Gray.
The new MacBook Pro models were made available to order yesterday, and they will launch on Tuesday, November 7. The 14-inch M3 MacBook Pro starts at $1,599 ($1,499 for education); the 14-inch M3 Pro MacBook Pro starts at $1,999 ($1,849 for education); and the 16-inch MacBook Pro starts at $2,499 ($2,299 for education).
Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.
Via MacRumors