Apple introduces new MacBook Pro laptops with M1 Pro and M1 Max processors

Apple held a new edition of the Apple Event, a live broadcast that has served the company to announce the technology products it is working on.

Thus, Apple presented the news of its new Apple M1 Pro and M1 Max chips, as well as new MacBook Pro laptops.

MacBook Pro

Among the features of the company’s new laptops, We found that two 14-inch and 16-inch models will be sold. In addition, Apple has introduced a Liquid Retina XDR Display, Mini LED type, that achieves a refresh rate of 120 Hz.

It should be noted that another of the new features of the MacBook Pro is its refined design. The screen frames have been reduced by 24% on the sides and 66% in the upper area. Now a notch is evident on the screen where the webcam is located (which is 1,080 pixels).

In terms of power, the performance of the 16-inch MacBook Pro improves up to two times with the new M1 Pro and M1 Max chips, while in the case of the GPU it is 2.5 times with M1 Pro and 4 times with M1 Max . The CPU improves in the case of the 14-inch model by up to 3.7 times compared to the 13-inch model with an Intel Core chip.

The M1 Max functions quadruple the memory capacity, which in the case of video was 16GB in previous models, and that goes up to 64GB of unified memory, with up to 30 simultaneous high-resolution video tracks. It can also handle transfers of up to 7.4GB per second on its SSD memory.

Likewise, MacBook Pros support up to 8TB of storage and up to 64GB of RAM.

In turn, the company confirmed that the MagSafe charger is back, after it has been replaced in recent years by the Type C charger. They have removed the Touch Bar from both models.

The new MacBook Pros will be available for $ 2,499 for the 16-inch model, and will be available for purchase from next week.

Chips M1 PRO Y M1 MAX

Apple launched its first proprietary chip for Mac a year ago, Apple M1, within its commitment to using its chips instead of Intel’s, and has now presented its first professional processor, M1 Pro, designed especially for its MacBook Pro laptops.

M1 Pro opts for a design in which the CPU and GPU do not work separately, but instead are integrated, using a unified board design that can achieve up to 200GB per second and with support for 32GB of unified memory.

The new Apple chip has 33.7 billion transistors, with architecture of five nanometers, and implements a CPU improvement of up to 70 percent, which is doubled in graphics performance. M1 Pro uses up to 16 dedicated cores for neural processing.

Apple has also presented another variant, M1 Max, a chip that doubles the memory interface and reaches a bandwidth of 400 GB per second, with 64GB of unified memory and 57,000 million transistors.

M1 Max is the “most powerful chip” designed by Apple, with up to 32 GPU cores that improve graphics performance up to four times., with an industry-leading performance per watt, according to the company, that improves performance by 1.7 times with the same power output.

Instead of adding a discrete graphics card, M1 Max improves graphics performance with 70 percent lower power consumption. To do this, it uses 40 percent less energy, which reduces overheating and noise, and uses 100W less energy, being also 2.5 times faster than other notebooks connected to the current.

Using M1 Max is geared towards features such as code compilation or video editing, and it manages to move files between CPU and GPU without making copies. The operation of machine learning is on average 3 times faster, and in some cases it reaches up to 20 times.

The chips are equipped with native Apple security functions such as the secure enclave, and also have improvements for the company’s native professional apps, such as Final Cut, Rosetta and Adobe Premiere, all of them universal apps, among a catalog of 10,000 programs. .

With information from El Comercio and EuropaPress.

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