With the launch of the M4 iPad Pro , everyone has been asking one key question: when can I get an M4 MacBook ? Seems a little weird that new silicon was dropped for just the tablet part of Apple’s business, and I can’t imagine many people being too happy about a next generation chip being announced when they bought a M3 MacBook Air just a few weeks before. Well, fortunately, we have an answer. According to display analyst Ross Young, panel shipments for new 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros are set to kick off in the third quarter of 2024, which points to a launch towards the end of the year.
This would mean M4, M4 Pro and M4 Max drop at roughly the same time of year that last year’s MacBook Pro models did. We’re not anticipating any dramatic design changes to the MacBook Pro hardware, as it's still quite the utilitarian beauty (especially in the black finish I got for my M3 Pro MacBook Pro ), so let’s turn our attention to the new horsepower inside. In our testing of the M4, which packs up to 4 performance cores and 6 efficiency cores, we saw this machine leapfrog the M3 in the MacBook Pro by quite a margin, and even get past the Snapdragon X Elite too.
And while the Neural Engine’s (NPU for the techies) capability capping out at 38 trillion operations per second (TOPs), which is technically less than the 45 TOPs the X Elite is capable of in the Asus Vivobook S 15 , I wouldn’t be surprised to see this number go up a bit for the Pro and Max variants. As for M4 Pro an.
