Apple’s last significant hardware announcements this year arrived this week, after the updated iMac and Mac Mini, the MacBook Pro was also introduced. The Apple M4 processor has been available since May, but it was first introduced only in the iPad Pro tablets, and the current announcements are updates of the other product lines with the top processor.
The MacBook Pro M4 series arriving on November 8 follows the pattern seen last year, so there is a 14-inch basic model starting at HUF 799,990, and you can also choose more extra 14- and 16-inch versions, the more powerful M4 Pro and M4 Max ( !) processors that simultaneously support more RAM and storage space. Optional is the built-in display surface with nanotexture (for an extra charge of HUF 75,000), which reduces reflections, and other services that can once again raise the price of the construction to the sky. For example, the setup with the M4 Max chip and 36 GB of memory already costs around HUF 1,599,990, but if you choose the most of everything, the total amount can even double that amount.
Even if it hadn’t received a more powerful chip, the new base model would have already solved a significant problem up to now, namely that it increases the memory from 8GB to 16GB without increasing the starting price. The basic storage is still 512 GB. The M4 chip provides the base model with 10 CPU cores (4 performance and 6 energy-efficient cores), which can already handle three Thunderbolt 4 ports, one more than the M3 MacBook Pro. The new chip supports two external displays and it also enables simultaneous use of the laptop’s built-in display, so content can be viewed on a total of three screens. The M3 MacBook Pro could only use two external displays when the built-in screen was not in use. Like other M4 Macs, 24GB and 32GB RAM expansions are available.
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The extra Thunderbolt port and improved external display support slightly reduce the difference between the 14-inch plain M4 MacBook Pro and the 14-inch MacBook Pro with a more powerful M4 Pro, but there are still a few important pluses. The M4 Pro handles up to 14 CPU cores (10 performance, 4 efficiency) and 20 GPU cores and ships with 24GB of RAM by default, which is 6GB more than the M3 Pro. The RAM can be expanded to 48 GB or 64 GB, and the Thunderbolt ports also support the 120 Gbps Thunderbolt 5 standard.
The version of the 16-inch MacBook Pro with M4 Pro starts at HUF 1,249,990 with 24 GB of RAM and 512 GB of storage space. The high-end chip of the M4 family includes up to 16 CPU cores (12 performance cores, 4 energy-efficient cores) and with the M4 Max offers support for up to four external displays in addition to the laptop’s built-in display.
Apple is not comparing the performance of the new chips to the previous generation, but to the M1 series. According to the company’s numbers, the M4 Max is 3.5 times faster than the M1 Max, but the regular M4 and M4 Pro also make roughly the same improvement in performance. Equipped with a 40-core GPU and a 16-core CPU, the M4 Max is also complemented by a 16-core Neural Engine.
Source: www.hwsw.hu
