The updated 14-inch and 16-inch models will benefit from the most powerful chips developed by the company to date – but will cost quite a bit of money, especially if you adopt all the upgrades offered
After we have detailed the exciting hardware features of the new M2 Pro and M2 Max chips from Apple, it is worth writing about the first computers they will be running – updated MacBook Pro models for the new year with 14-inch and 16-inch screens, which replaced It completely replaced the 15-inch and 17-inch models of the past.
The new duo has not undergone a change in design or dimensions compared to the 2021 models, but will benefit from the improvement of between 20 percent and 40 percent expected from the new chips (comparing the M2 Pro to the M1 Pro and between the M2 Max to the M1 Max), alongside Known advanced displays with a refresh rate of up to 120 Hz, an average brightness of 1,000 nits and a declared peak brightness of up to 1,600 nits, storage that reaches transfer speeds of 7,400MBps in volumes between 512GB and 8TB, built-in LPDDR5 memory at a speed of 6,400MT/s with a volume of between 16GB to 96GB, MacOS 13 Ventura system and an advanced audio system of six speakers.
Other improvements in the 2023 models are Wi-Fi 6E wireless connectivity with a theoretical maximum data transfer rate of 2.4Gbps, double the Wi-Fi 6 connectivity of the previous generation, modern wireless Bluetooth 5.3 connectivity and also one full-size HDMI 2.1 port with support for 4K displays at a refresh rate of up to 240 Hz or in 8K displays with a refresh rate of up to 60 Hz, which joins the ability to operate three more screens using three existing Thunderbolt 4 connections (as in the 2021 versions) that support transferring it in the DisplayPort standard through them.
The new MacBook Pro 14 and MacBook Pro 16 will be available for purchase starting January 24 (in the United States, at least), in gray or silver, completely and immediately replacing the old models – and, as with most advanced Apple products, also In this case, it is intriguing to find out how deep the rabbit hole is, and how much the price of the models may increase when you choose to upgrade to the most advanced processing chip, storage and dynamic memories, especially because in the case of these products it is not possible to perform any independent upgrade in the future.
The MacBook Pro 14 will be offered for $2,000 before tax as a base price for a model with an M2 Pro with a reduced amount of powerful processing cores and a reduced amount of graphics processing cores, along with 512GB of storage and 16GB of dynamic memory. A payment of $2,500 will upgrade the M2 Pro to its most powerful version and the internal storage to 1TB, while $3,100 will put the user in the league of the M2 Max – but in its more modest version with 30 graphics processing clusters, instead of 38 clusters in the improved version that will require An additional $200 investment.
From here, jumping to 64GB of RAM will cost an additional $400 and jumping to 96GB will cost $800, doubling the storage to 2TB will also cost $400 and moving to a fast internal storage of 8TB will require an investment of no less than $2,200 – so the price for mobile The dream compact with 96GB of LPDDR5 and 8TB of storage will cost $6,300 before tax, or NIS 21,270 in direct conversion.
The MacBook Pro 16 will start at $2,500 with the powerful version of the M2 Pro with 512GB of internal storage and 16GB of RAM, while jumping to the M2 Max in its advanced version with 32GB of RAM and 1TB of storage will cost $3,500 – hence another upgrade Up to 96GB of RAM and 8TB of storage will bring the cost to $6,500, while if someone happens to also be interested in the professional versions of the Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro programs, they will find themselves reaching the level of $7,000 before tax. or approximately NIS 23,650 before VAT additions.
What do you think of the new MacBook Pro models, and what other Apple models would you like to see the M2 Pro and M2 Max star in down the road? Let’s tell in the comments.