Enlarge / Apple’s new MacBook Execs (and the 13-inch M1 mannequin that is nonetheless hanging round). (credit score: Apple)
The brand new Apple Silicon-based MacBook Execs are right here, and Apple’s presentation on the M1 Professional and M1 Max made each chips appear like a dramatic enchancment over the Intel processors and Intel and AMD GPUs they will be changing.
The 14-inch MacBook Professional begins at $1,999, and the 16-inch mannequin begins at $2,499. Each of these configurations get you an M1 Professional processor, 16GB of reminiscence, and 512GB of storage, and each symbolize solely minor value will increase from the MacBook Execs they’re changing. However issues rapidly get sophisticated from there.
Although Apple technically solely introduced two new chips immediately, each the M1 Professional and M1 Max are available in an array of various configurations with totally different numbers of CPU and GPU cores (identical to the M1). That is frequent in chipmaking—when you make an M1 Professional with one or two faulty GPU cores, then promoting it as a lower-end mannequin is a wise different to only throwing the chip out totally. However this choice does complicate Apple’s high-level efficiency numbers barely, and it signifies that you may nonetheless want to decide on between a number of processor choices whenever you’re looking for a brand new MacBook Professional.
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