Before October ended, Apple made one last announcement - the new MacBook Pro with M4, M4 Pro and M4 Max chips. Coming to Malaysia soon in Space Black and Silver finishes, the 14-inch MacBook Pro with 16GB of memory will start at just RM6,999.
The 14-inch MacBook Pro with M4 features a 10-core CPU and a faster 10-core GPU, alongside 16GB of unified memory with support for up to 32GB (120GB/s of memory bandwidth). Compared to the M1 MacBook Pro, the new M4 MacBook Pro is up to 1.8x faster for tasks like editing gigapixel photos and rendering complex scenes in Blender are up to 3.4x faster. The Neural Engine is 3x more powerful than in M1 as it's built for Apple Intelligence and other AI workloads. The M4 model also supports two high-resolution external displays in addition to the built-in display.
On the other hand, the MacBook Pro with M4 Pro offers a 14-core CPU with 10 performance cores and four efficiency cores for a jump in multicore performance, along with up to a 20-core GPU that is twice as powerful as M4. The M4 Pro gets a 75% increase in memory bandwidth over the prior generation and is up to 3x faster than models with the M1 Pro.
Meanwhile, the MacBook Pro with M4 Max brings up to a 16-core CPU, up to a 40-core GPU, over half a terabyte per second of unified memory bandwidth, and a Neural Engine that is over 3x faster than M1 Max. With M4 Max, the MacBook Pro delivers up to 3.5x the performance of M1 Max, useful for workloads like visual effects, 3D animation, and film scoring. It also supports up to 128GB of unified memory, so developers can easily interact with LLMs that have nearly 200 billion parameters. Additionally, the laptop also features two ProRes accelerators for 4K120 fps ProRes video captured with the new iPhone 16 Pro and editing in Final Cut Pro.
While the MacBook Pro looks the same as before, it has a new nano-texture display option that reduces glare and distractions from reflections. In bright lighting conditions, the new MacBook Pro can now show SDR content at up to 1000 nits and still displays HDR content at up to 1600 nits of peak brightness. There's also a new 12MP Centre Stage camera that supports Desk View, alongside a six-speaker sound system with Spatial Audio and Dolby Atmos.
And just like the new Mac mini, the MacBook Pro with M4 Pro and M4 Max features Thunderbolt 5 ports that more than double transfer speeds up to 120 Gb/s. All MacBook Pro models feature an HDMI port that supports up to 8K resolution, an SDXC card slot, a MagSafe 3 port for charging, and a headphone jack, along with support for Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3.
All of these new MacBook Pros will receive Apple Intelligence features via the macOS Sequoia 15.1 software update. Here are the prices of the MacBook Pro M4 for the Malaysian market:
14 inches
- M4 chip, 16GB unified memory, 512GB SSD: RM6,999
- M4 chip, 16GB unified memory, 1TB SSD: RM7,849
- M4 chip, 24GB unified memory, 1TB SSD: RM8,699
- M4 Pro chip, 24GB unified memory, 512GB SSD: RM8,499
- M4 Pro chip, 24GB unified memory, 1TB SSD: RM10,499
- M4 Max chip, 36GB unified memory, 1TB SSD: RM13,999
16 inches
- M4 Pro chip, 24GB unified memory, 512GB SSD: RM10,999
- M4 Pro chip, 48GB unified memory, 512GB SSD: RM12,699
- M4 Max chip, 36GB unified memory, 1TB SSD: RM15,299
- M4 Max chip, 48GB unified memory, 1TB SSD: RM17,499
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