If you’ve been hankering for Apple’s new 14-inch or 16-inch MacBook Pro, you’re going to like this.
Apple on Tuesday announced its 14.2-inch and 16.2-inch MacBook Pro notebooks, complete with configurations that include the M1 Pro or M1 Max processor, a mini-LED display with ProMotion, an HDMI port and SD card reader, charging with MagSafe 3, a notch housing a 1080p webcam, and more.
The new machines offer additional ports, the right side incorporating an HDMI port, a Thunderbolt 4 port, and an SD card reader. The left side of the machine offers a MagSafe 3 port, two Thunderbolt 4 ports, and a headphone jack. The keyboard features now a full-height function key row in place of the Touch Bar, and the entire keyboard area is black.
The updated notebooks offer reduced display borders, with a notch out of the top of the display for the webcam. The webcam itself offers a 1080p resolution with a wider aperture and a larger image sensor. The display itself is a mini-LED Liquid Retina XDR display, which also features ProMotion for refresh rates up to 120Hz.
Other new features include improved studio-quality mics and speakers that support Spatial Audio, with the 16-inch model containing a six-speaker system.
Where charging is concerned, the units offer magnetic charging with MagSafe 3, which offers fast charging of up to 50 percent of battery capacity in 30 minutes. When playing back video, the 14.2-inch model offers up to 17 hours of battery life, while the 16.2-inch model can deliver up to 21 hours of video playback.
Apple’s new M1 Pro chip functions as a scaled-up, more powerful variant of the M1 chip, and features a 10-core CPU, 16-core GPU, a more capable Media Engine, more Thunderbolt controllers, support for up to 32GB of RAM, and more. The M1 Max chip features the same 10-core CPU as the M1 Pro, but includes a 32-core GPU with support for up to 64GB of RAM.
The MacBook Pro is available to pre-order today with prices beginning around $1,999 and begins arriving to customers next week.
Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.
Via MacRumors