14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro: Everything you need to know about the 2023 update
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The 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro are the best laptops Apple sells, even though they have older M1 Pro and M1 Max chips. Apple introduced the M2 chip in the 13-inch MacBook Pro in June, so we know the next generation of the larger, more powerful, MacBook Pro models is on the way. There was hope that the updates would arrive in the fall of 2022, but those rumors didn’t pan out. Instead, it now looks like the update to the 14-inch MacBook Pro and its 16-inch sibling will come in 2023. Here’s everything you need to know about the upcoming release.
14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro: Buy or wait?
You might be wondering whether to take advantage of the ongoing sales and buy yourself a new MacBook Pro right now or if you’d be better off waiting for Apple to update the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro. Normally, with new Macs in the pipeline, we’d be advising that buyers wait. However, things are a little different right now. The deals are looking great, with hundreds of dollars in savings on most configurations, and we are anticipating that, if you aren’t based in the U.S., prices for the next generation of Mac could skyrocket. Following price rises for the whole range of iPads in October, Macs look likely to get price hikes in conjunction with the new product launches.
Apple 14in MacBook Pro, M1 Pro (2021)
2022 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro: Release date
Hopes that the new MacBook Pro with M2 Pro and Max chips would arrive in the fall of 2022 have been dashed, despite months of speculation that they would launch at a fall event. In an October report, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman wrote that the new MacBook Pro “probably won’t launch until early next year”. In a December PowerOn newsletter, Gurman reiterated that the “14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros are arriving early next year with M2 Pro and M2 Max options.”
There is more evidence that Apple is readying the new MacBook Pro for launch: A pair of mysterious and unreleased Macs were spotted in Steam’s usage data for November 2022. Labeled as “Mac14,6” and “Mac15,4,” the devices are probably the MacBook Pro models. The designator “Mac14,6” had also been spotted on Geekbench.
The new MacBook Pros could arrive as an update to Apple’s website in February or March or as part of a larger spring event that could see the launch of several new Macs, including a Mac mini refresh and a new Mac Pro.
14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro: Price
Even though Apple raised the price of the entry-level MacBook Air by $200 with the M2 redesign, we don’t anticipate any major changes to Apple’s pricing structure in the U.S. However, we do expect to see some price rises in some parts of the world in line with inflation–and the global price rise following the introduction of the new iPad models does make this look likely.
Here’s Apple’s MSRP right now:
- 14-inch MacBook Pro, M1 Pro, 8-Core CPU, 14-Core GPU, 16GB Unified Memory, 512GB SSD: $1,999/£1,899
- 14-inch MacBook Pro, M1 Pro, 10-Core CPU, 16-Core GPU, 16GB Unified Memory, 1TB SSD: $2,499/£2,399
- 16-inch MacBook Pro, M1 Pro, 10-Core CPU, 16-Core GPU, 16GB Unified Memory, 512GB SSD: $2,499/£2,399
- 16-inch MacBook Pro, M1 Pro, 10-Core CPU, 16-Core GPU, 16GB Unified Memory, 1TB SSD: $2,699/$2,599
- 16-inch MacBook Pro, M1 Max, 10-Core CPU, 32-Core GPU, 32GB Unified Memory, 1TB SSD: $3,499/£3,299
If Apple raises prices by 15 percent overseas–which was the lowest percentage rise for iPads in October–U.K. shoppers could be paying these prices:
- 14-inch MacBook Pro, 512GB: £2,184
- 14-inch MacBook Pro, 1TB: £2,759
- 16-inch MacBook Pro, 512GB: £2,759
- 16-inch MacBook Pro, 1TB/M1 Pro: £2,989
- 16-inch MacBook Pro, 1TB/M1 Max: £3,794
<figcaption>The design of the 13-inch MacBook Pro (left) compared to the 14-inch MacBook Pro </figcaption></figure>Foundry
New 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro: Design
Apple made some huge changes to the MacBook Pro in 2021, with the launch of a new 14-inch model and a new display with thinner bezels and ProMotion, along with the removal of the Touch Bar and the addition of a slew of ports. Gurman has indicated that the MacBook Pro is expected to “stay roughly the same” on the outside.
AppleLeaksPro on Twitter agrees. In a tweet in which he claimed that the upcoming M2 MacBook Pro will be “worth the wait,” he explained that his source indicated there likely won’t be any “design or I/O changes.”
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Hearing the new 14/16-inch MBP’s performance will be “worth the wait”.
— LeaksApplePro (@LeaksApplePro) November 27, 2022
Better speeds, better battery life, less heat… sounds like a pretty nice product update for me. No design or I/O changes though.
New 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro: Specs
While the outside of the MacBook Pro will look the same, the inside will be different. Based on the M2 and the M1 variants that Apple launched in 2021, we estimate that the M2 Pro and M2 Max chips will offer the following:
- M2 Pro: Up to 12-core CPU, up to 20-core GPU, up to 48GB RAM
- M2 Max: Up to 12-core CPU, 38-core GPU, up to 96GB RAM
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As Apple gears up to launch the new MacBook Pro models, scores that could relate to the processor inside one have appeared on Geekbench. The so-called “Mac14,6” gains a Geekbench 5 score of 14,888 multi-cor
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