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Apple promised three Mac-related product announcements this week, and it has delivered on two of them so far with the new iMac on Monday and the redesigned Mac mini on Tuesday. The final announcement today is expected to be updated 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models with M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max chips.

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Below, we outline what to expect from the new MacBook Pro models.

14-Inch MacBook Pro With M4 Chip


14-Inch and 16-Inch MacBook Pro With M4 Pro and M4 Max Chips


Both the new iMac and Mac mini were announced at 11 a.m. Eastern Time over the past two days, so expect the new MacBook Pro models to be unveiled then too.

Article Link: Apple Expected to Unveil New MacBook Pros Today With These Features
 

Velin

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Apple’s Mac products are nicely placed. Apple silicon delivering huge dividends. And the product lineup works.

Meanwhile, PCs are a total mess. Intel is flailing, motherboards frying CPUs last year, grossly overpriced GPUs. Also looks like the latest version of Windows isn’t working properly with Intel’s latest CPU release a few days ago. M$FT better fix that scheduler in 23H2.
 

nathansz

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having bought a refurbished 16" last week I'm anxious to see what the actual specs and prices turn out to be

I might return and pay the extra $ for more p-cores, or just keep the discount, or maybe switch to an 15" air + new mini?

I don't need the power in a laptop but need to have one
 

StuBeck

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Let’s hope the entry point price remains the same, because past gouging on memory upgrades to 24GB was costly.
I thought that the previous minimum for the 14" was $2k, and then when the smaller MBP went away they introduced the 8 GB RAM MBP version. I could be misremembering this, but it seems like a situation they created that will cause some reevaluations of those who insisted 8 GB of RAM was all we ever needed.
 

TC1492

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Wouldn't it be nice if Apple took advantage of the thunderbolt 5 and even 4 ports for an Apple eGPU with Apple Silicon for those that need extra GPU performance options.
 

Kylo83

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Nothing the new m4 MacBook Pro can do that the m1 MacBook Pro can’t. The chip upgrades are not needed the M1 Max is still over kill for most people. I wish we had some major changes that would make me want to get the new one
 

TechZeke

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I am sure a lot of RAM base people will be happy today.
RAM is Apple Silicon's weakest link. The chip itself and SSD performance will never be a bottleneck for most people, but as time passes, the lack of RAM in all those 8GB models out there will start to become noticeable.

It wouldn't surprise me that 8GB models start to get left out of certain new features in future MacOS Releases.
 

b.la

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Nothing the new m4 MacBook Pro can do that the m1 MacBook Pro can’t. The chip upgrades are not needed the M1 Max is still over kill for most people. I wish we had some major changes that would make me want to get the new one
Is it not a good thing that the machine released what, 4 years ago now is still performing so well? I’d rather that than to be forced upgrade every couple of years because I need more performance.
 

BlairMALL

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I have had the 16" M1 Pro, M2 Max and M3 Max.

Im holding off for the M5 Max with hopefully a redesign
If I had the M3 Max, I would probably wait as well. However, I am nursing a 2017 MacBook Pro 13" base model. I will be making a purchase. After yesterday, however, I am considering a M4 Mac mini AND a M2 Air for the cost of MacBook Pro 14" M4 Pro (waiting for pricing to confirm my expectations).
 

dinobear

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what timmeeee. I keep refreshing apples page but nothing yet.

I'd like to benchmark the M4 highest model to my 2019 MBP 64gb, 5600m
 

macfacts

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Nice to see these, but it's going be hard to beat yesterday's Mini
Yesterday 's mini has the off/on switch on the bottom but apple silicon laptops have that beat, they have zero "on switch" and instead auto turn on when you open the lid.
 

Velin

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Nothing the new m4 MacBook Pro can do that the m1 MacBook Pro can’t. The chip upgrades are not needed the M1 Max is still over kill for most people. I wish we had some major changes that would make me want to get the new one

Yeah no. People spending on the Pro models can and do take advantage of those speed gains. Shorter 4k or 8k renders or encodes = money. Faster compiles = money. People who buy Pros are indeed doing these things, sometimes all day every day.
 
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