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Apple on Wednesday roll up Macweek ( well , Mac one-half week ) by insert an update MacBook Pro . Apple ’s most premium laptop is fascinate up to is brethren with the addition of M4 scrap . The Pro and Mini are the first two Macs getting the new chip . The Pro will also be thefirst to frolic the just - announced M4 Maxas an upgradeable pick .
The novel Pros will arrive with 14- and 16 - in Liquid Retina XDR displays that bill at 1,000 nits of light . Both sizes ship with the M4 , M4 Pro , and M4 Max options and a 12 - megapixel webcam . The M4 Pro and Max models are get their Thunderbolt 4 embrasure raise to Thunderbolt 5 . Apple rates their battery life as a full 24 hours — the longest it ’s claimed for any MacBook .
Apple Intelligenceis , naturally , a boastful while of the teaser as well . The first wave of feature film get withMonday ’s macOS Sequoia 15.1 release , including compose tool , image cleanup position , article summaries , and a type stimulation for theredesigned Siri experience . The outgoing 15.2 release should deliver most of the rest features promised by Apple at WWDC in June , includingGenmoji , Image Playground , Visual Intelligence , Image Wand , and ChatGPT desegregation .
Both models start with a 16 GB base of computer memory . ditto mark for the MacBook Air . Apple ’s ultraportable is getting that rise for both the M2 and M3 models — though the systems rest otherwise unaltered from last year . The M2 version hold back the same $ 999 base price as last class as well .
The 14 - inch starts at $ 1,599 for M4 and $ 1,999 for M4 Pro . The 16 - inch starts at $ 2,499 . Both are up for preorder Wednesday . They ’re rig to start shipping on November 8 , along withthe new iMacand Mac mini denote sooner this week .
