Enlarge / The 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro are among the new Macs that will get the M2 treatment. (credit: Samuel Axon) Apple is in the late stages of readying several new Mac models built on the forthcoming M2 chip, according to a report from Bloomberg citing both developer logs and people familiar with the […]
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App lets you crank the new MacBook Pro’s brightness to over 1,000 nits
Vivid on a MacBook Pro and Pro Display XDR. Developers Jordi Bruin and Ben Harraway have released an application called Vivid that allows Apple’s new MacBook Pro models and Pro Display XDR to achieve double the brightness systemwide—something that previously wasn’t possible. For background: Apple says the new 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro’s MiniLED display […]
2021 MacBook Pro review: Yep, it’s what you’ve been waiting for
Enlarge / The 2021 14-inch MacBook Pro stacked on top of the 2021 16-inch MacBook Pro. (credit: Samuel Axon) Apple has long offered an application called Time Machine that lets you revert the software on your computer to the state it was in before something went seriously wrong. In many ways, the new MacBook Pro […]
The new MacBook Pro seems to have an HDMI 2.0 port, not 2.1
Enlarge / Farthest right: The HDMI port on the MacBook Pro. (credit: Lee Hutchinson) The newly announced 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models have HDMI ports, but they have a limitation that could be frustrating for many users over the long term, according to Apple’s specs page for both machines and as noted by Paul […]
The MacBook Pro will soon get a resolution bump, macOS beta suggests
Enlarge / The 2019 16-inch MacBook Pro. (credit: Samuel Axon) The seventh beta of macOS Monterey contains what appear to be references to new screen resolutions suitable for the MacBook Pro line, as discovered by MacRumors . In a list of supported graphics resolutions within macOS, there are two new resolutions: 3, 456 by 2, […]
The long-awaited M1X MacBook Pro will be here by November, reporter claims
Enlarge / The previous generation of the MacBook Pro. (credit: Andrew Cunningham ) The highly anticipated new MacBook Pro models with Apple-designed silicon will arrive by this November, reporter Mark Gurman said in his most recent newsletter. Gurman, who has a strong history of accurately reporting on new Apple products from sources with direct knowledge […]
Apple planning MacBook Pro with 16-core GPU, Mac Pro with 128 GPU cores
Enlarge / The most recent Mac Pro. (credit: Samuel Axon) Apple plans to introduce significantly updated versions of the MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, Mac mini, iMac, and Mac Pro, according to a new report in Bloomberg citing people familiar with Apple’s plans. The report shares much more detail about these machines than we’ve previously been […]
Report: Apple’s M2 chip has entered production and will ship as soon as July
Enlarge / An Apple-made image of the various Macs running on the M1 to date. (credit: Apple) A report in Japanese publication Nikkei claims that the next generation of Apple’s custom-designed silicon chips for Mac, dubbed “M2,” entered production this month. Citing “sources familiar with the matter,” Nikkei reports that the chips will power Macs […]
Report: MagSafe will return in new Apple Silicon MacBook Pro models
Enlarge / This is the 16-inch MacBook Pro as it’s being sold now. According to today’s report, the new one will generally look quite similar. (credit: Samuel Axon) According to a report in Bloomberg, Apple plans to launch new versions of its MacBook Pro laptops “around the middle of the year,” and these machines will […]