M4 MacBook Pro Is So Much More Than a Spec Bump

The M4 MacBook Pro Is So Much More Than a Spec Bump
The M4 represents as much of a philosophical shift as it does a performance upgrade. It is Apple acknowledging that if you’re buying a laptop with “Pro” in the name, than it should be a better machine.
Save $300 on Apple's 1TB M4 Pro 14-inch MacBook Pro this weekend
A trio of retailers are fighting for your money, by offering the 1TB 14-inch MacBook Pro with an upgraded M4 Pro chip at $300 off the list price.
MacBook Pro M4 Prices Are Getting a Major Cut, Apple is Going All In For Black Friday
They were launched less than two months ago, they are outstanding products, and yet Amazon is offering substantial discounts on them.
M4 MacBook Pro — 5 reasons to buy and 2 reasons to skip
The biggest reason to upgrade to the MacBook Pro M4 is the performance. This machine gets the newest M4 chip that is based on a 3-nanometer process, promising the fastest CPU core and better multithreaded performance than M3. Based on our testing, the M4 blows a lot of the competition away but not on every test.
16-inch MacBook Pro M4 Max review: The pinnacle of the portable Mac
The new M4 Max-powered 16-inch MacBook Pro is a beast of a machine, that highlights the raw power and efficiency of Apple Silicon.
M4 Max MacBook Pro: Real-World Usage Tests
Apple last week replaced the M3 Max MacBook Pro with the new M4 Max MacBook Pro, and we picked up one of the new high-end MacBook Pro machines to
This Black Friday deal slashes $300 off the highest-end M4 MacBook Pros
That $300 price cut applies if you decide to upgrade the RAM or the chip as well. For example, you can get the 16-inch MacBook Pro with an M4 Pro, 48GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD for $2,599 (regular price $2,
Review: The fastest of the M4 MacBook Pros might be the least interesting one
The M4's single-core performance is between 14 and 21 percent faster than the M3s in our tests, and tests that use all the CPU cores are usually 20 or 30 percent faster. The GPU is occasionally as much as 33 percent faster than the M3 in our tests, though more often, the improvements are in the single or low double digits.
A beautiful machine: one week with an M4 Pro MacBook Pro
I tested a beautiful Space Black MacBook Pro with the new M4 Pro chip and 48GB memory (which I would treasure if it belonged to me). The 3-nanometer chip it uses has 14 cores, consisting of 10 performance and four efficiency cores; it has a 2TB drive; a Liquid Retina XDR nanotexture display; and it costs $3,349.
The best early Black Friday laptop deals: Score record lows on the M4 MacBook Pro and the Microsoft Surface Laptop 7
AM EST This story has been updated with new laptop deals ahead of Black Friday. Black Friday is the absolute best time for finding good deals on laptops. (I would know: I've tracked them for Mashable since 2019.
Apple hid one of the best features of the M4 MacBook Pro
Apple's new M4 MacBook Pro has a significant upgrade to the display, and the company somehow forgot to mention it.
5 laptops to buy instead of the M4 MacBook Pro
The M4 MacBook Pro is pretty stellar. Apple made it far better than the previous generation — without increasing the cost.
Apple's M4 Max beats RTX 4070 in Blender, but falls short of the RTX 4080 Super
The impressive test results come from Blender Open Data, where the M4 Max scored an average of 5,205 points across 38 tests.
Report: Next-gen Pro Display XDR to have quantum dot display
Last week, analyst Ross Young revealed that the new M4 MacBook Pro is the first Apple device to use new quantum dot display ...