New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6

elicash

Nano-texture upgrade option is coming for the whole line of products. Edit: the thing I'm confused about is it seems there are at least two but maybe three different things that they are calling "nano-texture". On buying screens, the Studio Display and iPad Mini say "Nano-texture glass" and the new MacBook Pro says "Nano-texture display." But the Duo marketing says "Nano-texture finish." I get that the internal Duo screen has the film over it and so it says "finish," but is there a difference between "glass" and "display"?

coreyh14444

Wasn't this rumored to have OLED or am I confusing it with something else?

weird-eye-issue

After using a 16" laptop it would be hard for me to go back

Danox

Nice, but in the long term, Apple is going to need to bring memory in-house.

eastbound

Apple has moved from a "Big day out" of marketing per year, where all product lineups would be announced, with novelty and conferences, to rolling releases along the year. Do they get the same marketing impact?

makmanalp

Man every time I want to get a new macbook air they come up with a new macbook pro which means 6 months later they're going to come up with a new generation of airs by which time I think "let me wait a bit and see if people like it", and so here I am with a 2022 M2 that is perfectly fine except for the disk being too small.

alberth

I thought Apple "Pro & Tell" day is tomorrow. Makes me now wonder what's in store for tomorrow's pro launch.

gniv

And it's still $1999. That's impressive. I paid the same for the M1 Pro in 2021.

petetnt

It seems that you can only get 32GBs of RAM maximum for the new 14" M6 Macbooks? M5 still has 64GB options available. edit: the larger configurations are only available for the Pro and Max chips apparently.

weystrom

Great hardware, but I can't stand MacOS anymore after switching to Linux on home dekstop. KDE is such a breath of fresh air after years of dealing with Apple's idiosyncrasies. I think I'll keep my Framework 13 Pro preorder.

timpera

Bring back Boot Camp and let us install Windows 11 on these, you cowards!

carruler

Don't think it's worth moving from previous max products yet to be honest. My M3 MAX still does a hell of a job whenever I need it.

Havoc

Interesting choice of pic...a guy with a military camo hat, laptop propped up on a hardshell field deployment case...but in a crop field. That's quite a departure from Appe's usual creatives sipping soy lattes vibe

throwaway270925

Apparently after the memory and storage shortage we are also experiencing a power supply shortage now - if you choose the base 16GB/1TB config you cant even choose any power supply as an option, guess its a use-once device now...

lettergram

Am I reading this correct? Max of 32Gb of RAM? > With 16GB of unified memory standard, configurable up to 32GB, and higher memory bandwidth up to 170GB/s, MacBook Pro makes multitasking and working with demanding apps and large projects even faster. So they're basically removing the ability to run local models effectively. I wonder if they'll bifurcate their market to enable those.

paxy

Minor rant – why come up with a consistent CPU naming scheme (Mx generation with Pro, Max etc. tiers) but then sell variants of each with different numbers of cores? It tosses the entire convention out of the window. It is especially annoying during resale or benchmarking, because “M5 Pro” by itself doesn't mean much, and you have to count the number of CPU & GPU cores to figure out the actual SKU.

kingleopold

16gb for default ram? is this a joke? base level is same for almost 5 years now, crazy level of slow upgrades, basically anyone needs pro device will never purchase the default specs, even air makes more sense.

arkwin

32GB of RAM only? What? Also weird that they are talking about token speed, but no larger LLMs can fit on this thing. Also, what happened to the I/O?? I was happy to see on the M4 they had HDMI, an SD card slot, and more. Why are they back to 2 USB-C ports? I only see pictures of one side, but the left side has traditionally had more I/O. C'mon, Apple, do better. It's a PRO model, not a MacBook Air

maromocooo

I think I'll skip this one. Apple's M-series chips are so good that my upgrade cycles just keep getting longer and longer...

k310

I don't want AI. I am preparing for a jump (back) to Linux. "Choice" disappeared, and yes, I know about the "fix" [0] Maybe this idea may be foreign to many, but personal computers were something I built from bags of parts socketed and/or soldered onto S-100 cards, and that experience was the foundation of most of my career. I was a Henry Higgins, and proud of my Eliza(s). While I get along cooperatively with Eliza (the happy ending to "My Fair Computer") I don't want Eliza to be my caretaker. This morphing of computers and internet into nannies and caretakers is IMO reverting to the "good old days" of servants. While some inventions are truly liberating (ask the guy who missed his Mom at an airport and freaked out for hours until she showed up at my home, courtesy of a cab or bus) how many are just replacing people with machines? I could seriously use some friendship of the human variety, rather than a humanoid in a box (or an especially nice robot as in "I Sing the Body Electric" by Ray Bradbury, memorable on The Twilight Zone) Try being older and living alone, typing away. I don't even use GPS any more, since I trashed Apple Maps when they kissed the Emperor's big fanny. [0] https://github.com/omlahore/RemoveMacAI