Apple Introduces Faster MacBook Pros and Mac Minis
Apple Inc. rolled out its first new products of 2023 on Tuesday, offering faster versions of its high-end MacBook Pro laptops and the Mac mini desktop.
The new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros look the same as the prior models — which launched at the end of 2021 — but add more powerful M2 Pro and M2 Max chips to replace the M1 Pro and M1 Max processors. The new notebooks mark Apple's first expansion of the M2 chip, which debuted in the MacBook Air and a low-end MacBook Pro last year.
The new Macs bolster a product line that brought in $40.2 billion last year, accounting for more than 10% of the tech giant's revenue. The company also plans to bring a variation of the M2 chip to its high-end Mac Pro desktop computer later this year. And Apple is working on new versions of the MacBook Air, including a larger model with a 15-inch screen.
The chips in the latest models offer modest performance gains and continue Apple's shift away from using Intel Corp. processors inside of its Mac computers. The M2 Pro will now sport as many as 12 main processing cores — an indicator of performance — up from a maximum of 10 cores. The graphics capabilities will now reach up to 19 cores, up from a prior high of 16. The M2 Max doubles performance for graphics, climbing to as many as 38 cores from a prior maximum of 32 cores.
The laptops also get a memory boost, to a maximum of 96 gigabytes on models with the highest-end M2 Max chip. That's up from 32 gigabytes on the Pro model and 64 gigabytes on the Max. Storage continues to top out at 8 terabytes. Battery life has been slightly increased, going to 18 hours from 17 hours on the 14-inch model and up to 22 hours from 21 hours on the 16-inch variation.
Apple said that the new MacBook Pros
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