Judging from the “Mac15,6” identifier listed on Geekbench, this score is from the 14-inch MacBook Pro model. The machine runs macOS 14.1 and is equipped with 36.00 GB of memory.

The results show that the M3 Pro has a base frequency of 4.05GHz, a single-core score of 3035 points, and a multi-core score of 15173 points. For reference, the 14-inch MacBook Pro 2023 (M2 Pro) included in Geekbench has an average single-core score of 2644 points and a multi-core score of 14229 points.

In other words, its single-core performance is 14.79% better than M2 Pro, while multi-core performance is 6.63% better. Compared with the 12-core M2 Max, the improvements are approximately 10.93% and 4.66%.

Referring to previous reports, the M3 Max chip has also appeared on the benchmarking platform, with a single-core score of over 3200 points and a multi-core score of over 31600 points. The single-core and multi-core chips are 17.4% and 49.1% faster than the M2 Max.

For comparison, Mac Studio equipped with M2 Ultra scored 2832 points in single-core and 21497 points in multi-core. In this comparison, M3 Max single-core is 13.38% higher than M2 Ultra, and multi-core is basically the same.

Judging from the Geekbench 6 Metal running score of the M3 Max chip, this chip is about 20% stronger than the M2 Max, which is equivalent to the performance gap between the A17 Pro and the A16 Bionic.

The highest-end M3 Max version tested in Geekbench 6 Metal is equipped with a 40-core GPU. It achieved the earliest Metal score of 158466 points, which is about 20% higher than the M2 Max and only slightly faster than the M1 Ultra with up to 64 cores.

In the Metal test, the previous generation king M2 Ultra can achieve a score of about 208621 points, so the gap between the two chips is very obvious, but after all, the two SoCs are used for different purposes, one is used for laptops, and the other is only used for laptops. will appear on desktop computers.

In terms of GPU, the GFXBench score of Apple M3 Max is close to the mobile RTX 4080, and can even be said to be only 7% lower. This level is almost the same as the desktop RTX 4070, which is very powerful.

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It is found that this entry-level 14-inch MacBook Pro equipped with M3, compared with the model equipped with M3 Pro / Max, has castrated the USB-C Thunderbolt 4 interface on the right side and only has two USB-C ports on the left Thunderbolt 4 interface.

▲ Entry-level 14-inch MacBook Pro equipped with M3 standard version

▲ MacBook Pro equipped with M3 Pro/Max

In addition, the battery of the 14-inch entry-level M3 model is 70Wh, which is smaller than the 72.4Wh of the 14-inch M3 Pro / M3 Max model.

It was previously reported that Apple officially removed the 13-inch MacBook Pro with TouchID after this conference, and this 14-inch MacBook Pro equipped with the M3 standard version is positioned to replace the former. Apple has It’s not surprising that this machine uses a lot of polish on the original 14-inch MacBook Pro.

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Apple’s 14/16-inch MacBook Pro official specifications and parameters page, and the displayed parameters are as follows:

 XDR Brightness: 1000 nits continuous brightness (full screen), 1600 nits peak brightness (HDR content only)

 SDR brightness: 600 nits

Apple’s official website describes the screen as follows:

The Liquid Retina XDR display is the world’s first display in a laptop, delivering 1,000 nits of sustained brightness and 1,600 nits of peak brightness when displaying HDR content, along with ultra-high contrast, vibrant colors and exceptional viewing angles. The brightness can reach up to 600 nits when displaying SDR content, which is 20% higher than the previous model.

This series of products has a battery life of up to 22 hours, achieving the ultimate professional portable experience. It can provide the same performance regardless of whether it is powered by external power or battery, helping users to work anytime and anywhere. The new MacBook Pro is available for order today and will be officially released on November 7.

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The 14-inch model will be equipped with an M3 series chip, while the 16-inch model will be equipped with an M3 Max or M3 Pro processor.

The 14/16-inch MacBook Pro will be equipped with up to 128GB of unified memory, while the existing M2 chip MacBook Pro supports up to 96GB of unified memory, which Apple officials say runs 11 times faster than a Mac equipped with an Intel chip.

In terms of color, the 14/16-inch MacBook Pro is available in all-black color.

In terms of price, the 14-inch MacBook Pro starts at 12,999 CNY, while the 16-inch MacBook Pro starts at 19,999 CNY.

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Both the new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models offer one hour more battery life than their predecessors, from 17 hours to 18 hours for the 14-inch model and from 21 hours to 22 hours for the 16-inch model. For comparison, both the M1 and M2 MacBook Air offer 18 hours of battery life, while the 13-inch MacBook Pro offers 20 hours of battery life.

When Tom’s Guide received one of Apple’s top-of-the-line models for review (96GB of RAM, 4TB SSD, M2 Max chip), it ran for 18 hours and 56 minutes on a full charge. That’s 36 minutes more than the 13-inch M2 MacBook Pro.

Some of the laptop endurance test times are mentioned below.

Dell’s 15-inch Latitude 9510: 18 hours and 17 minutes

Dell Latitude 9410 2-in-1: 16 hours and 54 minutes

ASUS ExpertBook B9450: 16 hours and 42 minutes

2023 14-inch MacBook Pro (M2 Pro): 16 hours 37 minutes

MacBook Pro (M1): 16 hours, 32 minutes

HP Elite Folio: 16 hours and 21 minutes

HP EliteBook x360 1040 G7: 15 hours or so

MacBook Air with M1: 14 hours and 41 minutes

MacBook Pro 14-inch (2021): 14 hours and 08 minutes

MacBook Air 2022: 14 hours and 02 minutes

MacBook Pro 14-inch: 14 hours and 02 minutes

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Earlier press reviews of the new MacBook Pro were released, and Macworld and Tom’s Guide tested the SSD read and write speeds of Apple’s latest laptop.

Macworld tested the 16-inch MacBook Pro with M2 Pro using the Blackmagic Disk Speed app, achieving read speeds of 5,372MBps and write speeds of 6,491MBps in a 2TB storage configuration. The previous-generation 14-inch MacBook Pro with the M1 Pro chip and 1TB of storage achieved slightly faster read speeds than the 16-inch M2 Pro, but slower write speeds of 5321 MBps.

Blackmagic Disk Speed Results

The test results published by Tom’s Guide also show that the new M2 Pro has faster write speeds than the M1 Pro, but slightly slower read speeds. Testing the 14-inch MacBook Pro with the M2 Max found that the notebook scored similarly to the 16-inch M2 Pro, achieving read speeds of 5,319 MBps and write speeds of 6,402 MBps.

While the new MacBook Pro has slightly slower read speeds based on these tests, users are unlikely to notice a difference in day-to-day performance unless they are working with very large files. Storage speed and performance are also influenced by other factors, such as storage capacity.

Last year, it was announced that Apple had dramatically cut the SSD speed of the base M2 MacBook Air, with one less SSD chip in the laptop. 256GB of storage capacity in the MacBook Air with a single NAND chip resulted in 50 percent lower read speeds and 30 percent lower write speeds. Previous base versions of the MacBook Air used two NAND chips. Apple said in a statement that the actual performance of MacBook Air is “even faster” and uses a “higher density NAND” chip.

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Release Date.

Ming-Chi Kuo has said that Apple plans to mass-produce the new 14/16-inch MacBook Pro in the fourth quarter of 2022; then Gurman revealed that the new MacBook Pro will be released at the earliest by the end of 2022, which can now be determined in the first half of this year.

Gurman recently revised his release expectations. He believes that Apple is unlikely to choose to release the MacBook Pro in January/February, most likely in the spring special event held in March this year.

design

The 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros won’t change cosmetically this year. In June 2022, Mark Gurman said that the new MacBook Pro “wouldn’t be fundamentally new, other than offering a faster chip.” That means Apple will stick with the same form factor.

This form factor is more square with a camera bangs area at the top of the screen and offers more connectivity ports. Apple may choose to return to ports like the SDXC card slot and HDMI. Apple has also reintroduced the popular MagSafe charging port.

Processor.

Gurman has previously said that Apple is working on five M2 processor-powered Macs, including the M2 Pro and M2 Max 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro. This confirms that Apple may stick with the same processor configuration as earlier models, powering the new Macbook Pro with the M2 chip in the Pro and Max versions.

This reserves the base M2 for the 13-inch MacBook Pro (2022) and MacBook Air (2022) and the M1 Ultra for Mac Studio.

The M2 Max chip can deliver up to 12 CPU cores and 38 GPU cores, up from the M1 Max’s 10 CPU cores and 32 GPU cores, Gurman said. Existing M2s typically offer about a 20 percent performance boost over the M1, so this could be a pretty impressive performance leap.

Still up for debate is whether these will use a 5nm or 3nm process. The latter would be another improvement in power and efficiency, but it may not be ready in time. Supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said in 2022 that the next MacBook Pro will likely still have a 5-nanometer chip, leaving the 3-nanometer process for a successor model. In a report in late August 2022, Ming-Chi Kuo reiterated those statements, saying that Apple’s next batch of MacBook Pro models will not feature 3 nanometer technology.

Continuity.

There is no battery power improvement between the Apple M1 and Apple M2. This suggests that the 2022 versions of the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro will continue to deliver 11 and 14 hours of battery life on a full charge, respectively.

These numbers aren’t terrible, especially for the 14-inch MacBook Pro model, but they’re much better than Apple promised on its Intel-based laptops.

Screens.

There are no reports that Apple will upgrade the MacBook Pro’s screen, which means the 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro will still feature a Liquid Retina XDR screen.

The 14-inch model has a 14.2-inch Mini LED backlit display with a screen resolution of 3024 x 1964 pixels. Additionally, it has a brightness of 1000 nits for XDR, 1600 nits for HDR content, and a maximum of 500 nits for SDR. In comparison, the larger MacBook Pro offers a 16.2-inch Mini-LED backlit display with a screen resolution of 3456×2234 pixels and similar brightness levels.

Storage and memory:

Storage options should remain the same, but Apple’s new M2 Pro and M2 Max will likely support higher unified memory. Apple hinted at this when it launched the first M2 MacBook in 2022. For example, the 13-inch MacBook Pro (2022) has 24GB of unified memory, compared to 16GB on earlier models. By comparison, while the 2020 MacBook Air offers 16GB of unified memory, the 2022 model maxes out at 24GB.

The current 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models offer 16GB, 32GB, or 64GB of unified memory, depending on whether you choose the M1 Pro or M1 Max chip. I would suggest that the 14″ and 16″ MacBook Pro (2023) models (with the M2 Pro or M2 Max chips) might start with 32GB of unified RAM, going up to 128GB like the Mac Studio (2022) with the M1 Max or M1 Ultra .

selling price

Apple may add the M2 Pro and Max chips to the MacBook Pro (2023) lineup as an additional, more powerful configuration option to the current lineup.

Apple is replacing the M1 Pro/Max version with the M2 Pro/Max version, and pricing for the 14-inch and 16-inch models may remain the same, starting at $1,999 and $2,499, respectively.

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The Mojjo has already listed the Envoy laptop bag, which will start shipping on November 21 for $95.

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Signs of a recession and fewer people working from home are two reasons why Apple is reducing orders, while “limited new selling points” for the new MacBook Pro models could also affect demand.

“The main upgrade to the new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro is simply a new processor,” wrote Ming-Chi Kuo in a Medium post. Limited new selling points could also lead to lower-than-expected demand.”

Given the major redesign of the notebooks launched in October 2021, including bangs at the top of the display and the return of ports like MagSafe and HDMI, it’s not surprising that the new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models are planned to have few changes. MacBooks tend to go through multiple generations between major hardware changes.

The new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models are expected to come with Apple’s M2 Pro and M2 Max chips, which Ming-Chi Kuo believes will remain in the 5nm process.

Apple is expected to hold another event in October, this time focusing on new iPad and Mac models, but it’s unclear if new MacBook Pro models will be announced at that event or sometime next year.

The full text of the post is as follows.

Apple very rarely cuts orders before peak season / new product volume production, meaning demand is significantly lower than expected, so MacBook shipments will likely continue to decline YoY for at least 1H23.

The economic downturn and WFH demand decline are the main reasons for the order cut, and both will likely continue to have a negative impact for at least 6-9 months.

The major upgrade to the new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models is only the adoption of new processors, and limited new selling points may also contribute to lower-than-expected demand.

The biggest selling points for MacBook Pro are Apple processors (with higher-tier ABF carriers) and Mini-LED displays, so significantly lower-than-expected demand for MacBook Pro is a structural risk for the higher-tier ABF carrier and Mini-LED industries.

4Q22 overall MacBook shipment estimates are revised down 15-20% due to new MacBook Pro cutbacks, and MacBook shipments will decline 10-15% YoY in 2022 (vs. market consensus of 5-10% YoY decline).

The shipping time for MacBook Pro standard models / customized models on Apple’s official website has significantly decreased from “4-6 weeks / 6-8 weeks” 2-3 months ago to “in-stock / within 1 week” now, mainly due to the significant decline in demand.

The ABF industry has expanded in recent years mainly to meet the optimistic expectations of Apple processors and Intel server processors. Following the slowdown of Intel server processor shipments, the potential risk of MacBook Pro/high-end Apple processor orders being cut in 4Q22 and a YoY decline in shipments in 1H23 will increase the chance of oversupply of high-end ABF capacity in 2023.

Mini-LED demand is mainly driven by Apple, and the potential risk of MacBook Pro order cut in 4Q22 and YoY decline in 1H23 shipments may significantly weaken the momentum of Mini-LED device shipments in 2023.

Although Apple’s MacBook order reduction rate is smaller than that of its competitors, it means that Apple’s demand for high-end products is still not immune to the recession/inflationary impact.

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