The game-changing MacBook Pro with M1 Pro and M1 Max offers extraordinary performance and battery life, and is equipped with the world’s best laptop display
The new MacBook Pro is equipped with a 1080p camera, the best audio system in a laptop, and the most advanced connectivity of the MacBook Pro ever
Cupertino, California Apple today released a completely redesigned MacBook Pro, equipped with the new M1 Pro and M1 Max, which is the first professional chip designed specifically for the Mac. MacBook Pro is available in 14-inch and 16-inch models, whether running on battery or plugged into a power source, can provide breakthrough processing, graphics, and machine learning (ML) performance, as well as amazing battery life—achieving what was previously impossible on laptops Imagined workflow. The new MacBook Pro is also equipped with an amazing Liquid Retina XDR display, multiple ports for advanced connectivity, a 1080p FaceTime HD camera, and the best audio system in a laptop. Combined with macOS Monterey, carefully designed to take full advantage of M1 Pro and M1 Max, the user experience is simply unparalleled. MacBook Pro pushes the limits of laptops and is designed for developers, photographers, filmmakers, 3D artists, scientists, music producers, and anyone who wants the best laptop in the world. The new MacBook Pro and 13-inch MacBook Pro equipped with M1 form the most powerful professional notebook lineup ever. Customers can now order the new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models, which will be available on Tuesday, October 26.
"We set out to build the best professional laptop in the world, and today we are happy to launch the new MacBook Pro with M1 Pro and M1 Max. This is a disruptive combination of extraordinary performance, unparalleled battery life, and breakthrough features." Apple Said Greg Joswiak, senior vice president of global marketing. "The new MacBook Pro adds an amazing XDR display, more ports (such as MagSafe 3), an advanced 1080p camera, and an amazing six-speaker sound system, all with an amazing new design. The new MacBook Pro is unparalleled and is the best professional laptop we have made so far."
Two new Pro chips, game-changing performance
The M1 Pro and M1 Max revolutionized the MacBook Pro experience and marked a big step in the transition to the Apple chip on the Mac. The MacBook Pro equipped with M1 Pro and M1 Max is the first to apply system-on-chip (SoC) architecture to professional systems. It has fast unified memory and higher memory bandwidth, provides unparalleled performance, and has first-class performance per watt and industry leading Power efficiency.
M1 Pro takes M1's groundbreaking architecture to a whole new level. M1 Pro is equipped with a powerful up to 10-core CPU, with eight high-performance cores and two high-efficiency cores, and up to 16-core GPU. The CPU performance of M1 Pro is 70% faster than M1, and GPU performance is increased by up to 2 times. M1 Pro also provides up to 200GB/s of memory bandwidth-almost 3 times the bandwidth of M1-and supports up to 32GB of fast unified memory. M1 Pro is designed to significantly speed up the professional video workflow, adding the ProRes accelerator to the media engine to provide incredibly fast and energy-efficient video processing.
M1 Max-the world's most powerful professional notebook computer chip-based on M1 Pro, further its amazing functions. The M1 Max is equipped with the same powerful 10-core CPU as the M1 Pro, and doubles the GPU to up to 32 cores. The GPU performance can be up to 4 times that of the M1. It also has a memory bandwidth of up to 400GB/s-twice that of the M1 Pro and nearly 6 times that of the M1-and up to 64GB of fast unified memory. Even if the video memory of the latest PC laptops reaches 16GB, having such a huge amount of available memory changes the rules of the game for professional workloads, allowing professionals to accomplish things that were previously unimaginable on laptops. 3D artists on the new MacBook Pro can now easily handle extreme geometries and textures in scenes where professional PC laptops can’t even run. 1 M1 Max also provides an enhanced media engine with two ProRes accelerators for higher multi-stream performance. Therefore, professionals can edit up to 30 4K ProRes video streams or up to 7 8K ProRes video streams in Final Cut Pro—much more than the 28-core Mac Pro using Afterburner. And for the first time on any Mac, video editors can use batteries to grade colors in HDR on 8K ProRes 4444 videos when they are a few miles away from the editing area. 2
The most powerful Mac notebook ever
The new MacBook Pro pushes the limits of notebook computers, offering incredible performance and new features.
Compared with the previous generation of high-end 13-inch models, the new 14-inch MacBook Pro is more powerful. 3
With the 10-core CPU in the M1 Pro and M1 Max, the 14-inch MacBook Pro can:
The 14-inch MacBook Pro uses the 16-core GPU in the M1 Pro and the 32-core GPU in the M1 Max to transform graphics-intensive workflows in the following ways:
Both M1 Pro and M1 Max are equipped with a 16-core neural engine, allowing users to enjoy faster ML tasks, including:
Compared with the previous generation, the new 16-inch MacBook Pro provides huge performance improvements for the most complex workflows in the areas most important to professionals. 4
The 16-inch MacBook Pro is equipped with the same powerful 10-core CPU as the M1 Pro and M1 Max, providing:
With the 16-core GPU in the M1 Pro and the 32-core GPU in the M1 Max, the 16-inch MacBook Pro provides faster graphics performance:
With the 16-core neural engine on the M1 Pro and M1 Max, machine learning tasks are faster than ever on the 16-inch MacBook Pro, including:
Industry leading power efficiency and extraordinary battery life
From professional workflows on the go to daily tasks, MacBook Pro can provide superior energy efficiency to achieve breakthrough performance-whether the user is plugged in or using the battery-and long battery life, allowing them to charge on a single charge More work can be done.
Compared with the previous generation MacBook Pro on a single charge: 5
Unlike other professional notebooks that lose performance when unplugged, MacBook Pro can provide the same level of performance whether it is plugged in or on battery. This unprecedented combination of system performance, battery performance, and battery life sets the MacBook Pro apart from all other notebook computers.
The 14-inch and 16-inch models of MacBook Pro adopt a beautiful new design, which focuses on performance and practicality. Its new aluminum housing optimizes the internal space for more performance and functions. The shell is precisely processed around the advanced thermal system, even at lower fan speeds, the system can deliver 50% more air than the previous generation. The thermal design allows MacBook Pro to provide extraordinary sustained performance while remaining cool and quiet. And because of the efficiency of Apple's chips, most tasks that users perform every day do not even need to turn on the fan.
The new MacBook Pro is also equipped with a magic keyboard. The keyboard is set in a double anodized black groove, which elegantly highlights the backlit fonts on the keys and has a full-height function row. Physical function keys (including a wider exit key) replace the Touch Bar, restoring the familiar touch of mechanical keys that professional users love. The new keyboard is equipped with the industry’s best Force Touch trackpad, which is perfect for professional applications.
Have the best laptop monitor in the world
MacBook Pro offers the stunning Liquid Retina XDR display for the first time. The Liquid Retina XDR display uses the mini-LED technology used in the iPad Pro to provide up to 1,000 nits of continuous full-screen brightness, an incredible 1,600 nits peak brightness and a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio. The extreme dynamic range brings HDR content to life with incredible shadow detail, bright specular highlights, deeper blacks, and more vivid colors than ever before. It has a gorgeous P3 wide color gamut and supports 1 billion colors to achieve smoother gradients. ProMotion technology is also applied to the Mac on this new display, with an adaptive refresh rate of up to 120Hz. ProMotion will automatically change the refresh rate to match the movement of the user's screen content to help extend battery life and make tasks smoother and more responsive. Video editors can also lock the refresh rate that best suits their material. The combination of excellent XDR performance and ultra-smooth ProMotion technology makes it the best laptop monitor in the world.
Both models are equipped with larger displays than the previous generation — the 16-inch model offers a 16.2-inch display6 with 7.7 million pixels, the highest number of pixels on a Mac laptop. The 14-inch model provides users with more screen space than before, with an active area of 14.2 inches7 and a total of 5.9 million pixels-more pixels than the previous 16-inch MacBook Pro. The display has a thinner frame and extends upwards around the camera to provide users with more content space. Whether the user is watching a movie or grading 8K video, the new display can provide a wonderful movie viewing experience.
MacBook Pro's most advanced connectivity ever
The new MacBook Pro has the most advanced and versatile connectivity features on Mac laptops. Both models are equipped with three Thunderbolt 4 ports for connecting high-speed peripherals, an SDXC card slot for quick access to media, an HDMI port for easy connection to monitors and TVs, and an improved version that supports high-impedance headphones Headphone jack. MagSafe returns to MacBook Pro with MagSafe 3, adopts a newer design and supports more system power than ever before. MagSafe 3 makes connecting the charging cable quick and easy, while protecting the MacBook Pro. In addition, the Mac is the first to achieve fast charging, which can be charged to 50% in only 30 minutes. With M1 Pro, users can now connect up to two Pro Display XDRs, and with M1 Max, users can connect up to three Pro Display XDRs and one 4K TV at the same time. For wireless connection, MacBook Pro is also equipped with Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.0.
The best camera and audio in a Mac notebook
The new MacBook Pro is equipped with a 1080p FaceTime HD camera-the best camera in a Mac laptop-with double the resolution and low-light performance. The camera system uses the powerful image signal processor (ISP) and the neural engine of the M1 Pro and M1 Max to calculate the video, thereby improving the video quality-allowing users to look clearer and skin tones more natural.
The new MacBook Pro provides a more advanced audio experience, equipped with industry-leading studio-quality microphones, lower noise floor, and clearer calls and recordings. The high-fidelity six-speaker sound system has two tweeters, which provide a clearer sound field and four forced cancellation woofers, which can increase the bass by 80%. The sound system also supports spatial audio to create an exquisite 3D listening experience. Therefore, whether users are listening to music or watching movies in Dolby Atmos, they will have a theater-like experience. All in all, this is the best audio system in a laptop.
macOS Monterey is optimized for M1 Pro and M1 Max
The new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro are equipped with macOS Monterey, the latest version of the most advanced desktop operating system in the world. macOS Monterey, combined with the powerful new M1 Pro and M1 Max, can provide users with breakthrough performance and productivity. FaceTime includes new audio and video features to make calls feel more natural and lifelike, and new continuity tools such as AirPlay to Mac enable Apple devices to work better together. Live Text and Visual Lookup bring new smart features to present useful information, Safari includes powerful tag organization and tag groups, and Mac shortcuts make automation easy. SharePlay, launched later this fall, will enable Mac users to share experiences through FaceTime, and Universal Control will allow users to easily work on their Macs and iPads.
With macOS Monterey and Apple chips, Mac users can run more applications than ever before. All Apple Mac applications are optimized for M1 Pro and M1 Max and run on this machine, and there are more than 10,000 universal applications and plug-ins available, including Lightroom Classic, Cinema 4D, Capture One and more. Existing Mac applications that have not been updated to Universal will run seamlessly with Apple's Rosetta 2 technology. Users can also run iPhone and iPad applications directly on the Mac, opening a huge new world. Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro also have powerful new features, allowing creatives to take full advantage of the powerful features and performance of M1 Pro and M1 Max.
In terms of environmental protection, the new MacBook Pro has once again raised the bar. Its shell is made of 100% recycled aluminum, and the solder of its main logic board uses 100% recycled tin. It is used for Mac laptops for the first time, and 100% is used in all magnets. Recycled rare earth elements. The seven components of both models are made of 35% or more recycled plastic, and all packaging wood fibers come from responsibly managed forests or recycled resources. MacBook Pro contains no harmful substances, uses more renewable energy sources, and meets Apple's energy efficiency standards.
Today, Apple has achieved carbon neutrality in global corporate operations and plans to achieve a net zero climate impact across the entire business by 2030, including the manufacturing supply chain and all product life cycles. This means that every Apple device sold, from component manufacturing, assembly, transportation, customer use, charging, to recycling and material recycling, will be 100% carbon neutral.
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Apple introduced the Macintosh in 1984, revolutionizing personal technology. Today, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV. Apple's five software platforms-iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS-provide a seamless experience across all Apple devices and provide people with breakthrough services, including App Store, Apple Music, Apple Pay and iCloud. Apple’s more than 100,000 employees are dedicated to making the best products in the world and making the world a better place than we found.
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