Apple Launches New Macbook Pros With M2 Chips

<p><span class&equals;"pagebody-location"><strong>CUPERTINO<&sol;strong> &&num;8212&semi; <&sol;span>Apple has updated its laptop lineup for professionals with the new <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;apple&period;com&sol;macbook-pro-14-and-16&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro<&sol;a> featuring the M2 Pro and M2 Max chips&comma; Apple’s next-generation state-of-the-art processors&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>With M2 Pro and M2 Max — the world’s most powerful and efficient chip for a pro laptop — MacBook Pro tackles demanding tasks&comma; like effects rendering&comma; which is up to 6x faster than the fastest Intel-based MacBook Pro&comma; and color grading&comma; which is up to 2x faster&period; Building on the unprecedented power efficiency of Apple silicon&comma; battery life on MacBook Pro is now up to 22 hours — the longest battery life ever in a Mac&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For enhanced connectivity&comma; the new MacBook Pro supports Wi-Fi 6E&comma; which is up to twice as fast as the previous generation&comma; as well as advanced HDMI&comma; which supports 8K displays for the first time&period; With up to 96GB of unified memory in the M2 Max model&comma; creators can work on scenes so large that PC laptops can’t even run them&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Rounding out the features of MacBook Pro are its Liquid Retina XDR display&comma; extensive array of connectivity&comma; 1080p FaceTime HD camera&comma; six-speaker sound system&comma; and studio-quality mics&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Customers can order the new 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro now&comma; with availability beginning Tuesday&comma; January 24&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;MacBook Pro with Apple silicon has been a game changer&comma; empowering pros to push the limits of their workflows while on the go and do things they never thought possible on a laptop&comma;” said Greg Joswiak&comma; Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Today the MacBook Pro gets even better&period; With faster performance&comma; enhanced connectivity&comma; and the longest battery life ever in a Mac&comma; along with the best display in a laptop&comma; there’s simply nothing else like it&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>MacBook Pro with M2 Pro features a 10- or 12-core CPU with up to eight high-performance and four high-efficiency cores for up to 20 percent greater performance over M1 Pro&period; With 200GB&sol;s of unified memory bandwidth — double the amount in M2 — and up to 32GB of unified memory&comma; users can tackle large projects and run multiple pro apps with blazing speed&period; A next-generation GPU with up to 19 cores delivers up to 30 percent more graphics performance&comma; and the Neural Engine is 40 percent faster&comma; speeding up machine learning tasks like video analysis and image processing&period; The powerful media engine in M2 Pro also tears through the most popular video codecs&comma; dramatically accelerating video playback and encoding while using very little power&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>MacBook Pro with M2 Max pushes workflows to the extreme with a much larger GPU featuring up to 38 cores and delivering up to 30 percent greater graphics performance over M1 Max&comma; and also includes 400GB&sol;s of unified memory bandwidth — twice that of M2 Pro&period; With up to 96GB of unified memory&comma; MacBook Pro once again pushes the limits of graphics memory in a laptop to enable intensive graphics workloads&comma; such as creating scenes with extreme 3D geometry and textures&comma; or merging massive photographic panoramas&period; M2 Max has a next-gen 12-core CPU with up to eight high-performance and four high-efficiency cores that delivers up to 20 percent greater performance over M1 Max&comma; and a more powerful media engine than M2 Pro&comma; with twice the ProRes acceleration to dramatically speed up media playback and transcoding&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;