January 17, 2023
PRESS RELEASE
Apple unveils MacGuide Pro featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max, with extra game-changing efficiency and the longest battery life ever in a Mac
New MacGuide Pro options as much as 6x sooner efficiency than the quickest Intel-based MacGuide Pro and help for as much as 96GB of unified reminiscence for demanding professional workflows
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple at present introduced the brand new 14- and 16-inch MacGuide Pro featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max, Apple’s next-generation professional silicon that brings much more power-efficient efficiency and battery life to professional customers. With M2 Pro and M2 Max — the world’s strongest and environment friendly chip for a professional laptop computer — MacGuide Pro tackles demanding duties, like results rendering, which is as much as 6x sooner than the quickest Intel-based MacGuide Pro, and coloration grading, which is as much as 2x sooner.1 Building on the unprecedented energy effectivity of Apple silicon, battery life on MacGuide Pro is now as much as 22 hours — the longest battery life ever in a Mac.2 For enhanced connectivity, the brand new MacGuide Pro helps Wi-Fi 6E,3 which is as much as twice as quick because the earlier technology, in addition to superior HDMI, which helps 8K shows for the primary time. With as much as 96GB of unified reminiscence within the M2 Max mannequin, creators can work on scenes so giant that PC laptops cannot even run them.4 Rounding out the unequalled options of MacGuide Pro are its famend Liquid Retina XDR show, intensive array of connectivity, 1080p FaceTime HD digicam, six-speaker sound system, and studio-quality mics. When mixed with macOS Ventura, the MacGuide Pro person expertise is unequalled. Customers can order the brand new 14- and 16-inch MacGuide Pro at present, with availability starting Tuesday, January 24.
“MacGuide Pro with Apple silicon has been a sport changer, empowering execs to push the boundaries of their workflows whereas on the go and do issues they by no means thought potential on a laptop computer,” stated Greg Joswiak, Apple’s senior vice chairman of Worldwide Marketing. “Today the MacGuide Pro will get even higher. With sooner efficiency, enhanced connectivity, and the longest battery life ever in a Mac, together with the perfect show in a laptop computer, there’s merely nothing else prefer it.”
Unrivaled Power-Efficient Performance with M2 Pro and M2 Max
With M2 Pro and M2 Max, MacGuide Pro is able to reworking professional workflows throughout a variety of disciplines, from artwork to science to app growth. Users seeking to improve from Intel-based Mac fashions will expertise much more dramatic enhancements in efficiency, battery life, connectivity, and general productiveness. MacGuide Pro additionally maintains efficiency whether or not customers are plugged in or on battery.
MacGuide Pro with M2 Pro encompasses a 10- or 12-core CPU with as much as eight high-performance and 4 high-efficiency cores for as much as 20 % better efficiency over M1 Pro. With 200GB/s of unified reminiscence bandwidth — double the quantity in M2 — and as much as 32GB of unified reminiscence, customers can sort out giant initiatives and run a number of professional apps with blazing pace. A next-generation GPU with as much as 19 cores delivers as much as 30 % extra graphics efficiency, and the Neural Engine is 40 % sooner, dashing up machine studying duties like video evaluation and picture processing. The highly effective media engine in M2 Pro additionally tears via the preferred video codecs, dramatically accelerating video playback and encoding whereas utilizing little or no energy.
With M2 Pro on MacGuide Pro:
- Rendering titles and animations in Motion is as much as 80 % sooner1 than the quickest Intel-based MacGuide Pro and as much as 20 % sooner5 than the earlier technology.
- Compiling in Xcode is as much as 2.5x sooner1 than the quickest Intel-based MacGuide Pro and practically 25 % sooner5 than the earlier technology.
- Image processing in Adobe Photoshop is as much as 80 % sooner1 than the quickest Intel-based MacGuide Pro and as much as 40 % sooner5 than the earlier technology.
MacGuide Pro with M2 Max pushes workflows to the acute with a a lot bigger GPU featuring as much as 38 cores and delivering as much as 30 % better graphics efficiency over M1 Max, and additionally contains 400GB/s of unified reminiscence bandwidth — twice that of M2 Pro. With as much as 96GB of unified reminiscence, MacGuide Pro as soon as once more pushes the boundaries of graphics reminiscence in a laptop computer to allow intensive graphics workloads, corresponding to creating scenes with excessive 3D geometry and textures, or merging large photographic panoramas. M2 Max has a next-gen 12-core CPU with as much as eight high-performance and 4 high-efficiency cores that delivers as much as 20 % better efficiency over M1 Max, and a extra highly effective media engine than M2 Pro, with twice the ProRes acceleration to dramatically pace up media playback and transcoding.
With M2 Max on MacGuide Pro:
- Effects rendering in Cinema 4D is as much as 6x sooner1 than the quickest Intel-based MacGuide Pro and as much as 30 % sooner6 than the earlier technology.
- Color grading in DaVinci Resolve is as much as 2x sooner1 than the quickest Intel-based MacGuide Pro and as much as 30 % sooner6 than the earlier technology.
Enhanced Connectivity
MacGuide Pro now options Wi-Fi 6E3 for sooner wi-fi connectivity, in addition to extra superior HDMI, to help 8K shows as much as 60Hz and 4K shows as much as 240Hz. These new capabilities construct on the versatile connectivity choices already in MacGuide Pro, together with three Thunderbolt 4 ports for high-speed connection to peripherals, an SDXC card slot, and MagSafe 3 charging.
macOS Ventura
With macOS Ventura, MacGuide Pro delivers much more efficiency and productiveness. Powerful updates like Continuity Camera convey videoconferencing options to any Mac, together with Desk View, Center Stage, Studio Light, and extra. Handoff in FaceTime permits customers to start out a FaceTime name on their iPhone or iPad and fluidly move it over to their Mac, or vice versa. And instruments like Stage Manager mechanically set up apps and home windows, so customers can focus on the duty at hand and nonetheless see the whole lot in a single look.
Messages and Mail are higher than ever, whereas Safari — the world’s quickest browser on Mac — ushers in a passwordless future with passkeys. With iCloud Shared Photo Library, customers can now create and share a separate picture library amongst as much as six relations, and the brand new Freeform app supplies a versatile canvas that helps customers be extra productive and expressive, whether or not they’re planning or brainstorming on their very own , or along with others. With the ability and recognition of Apple silicon, and new developer instruments in Metal 3, gaming on Mac has by no means been higher.
MacGuide Pro and the Environment
MacGuide Pro is designed to attenuate its influence on the setting, together with 100% of the next recycled supplies: aluminum within the enclosure, uncommon earth parts in all magnets, tin within the solder of the principle logic board, and gold within the plating of a number of printed circuit boards. It additionally options 35 % or extra recycled plastic in a number of elements, and meets Apple’s excessive requirements for vitality effectivity. MacGuide Pro is freed from quite a few dangerous substances, and 97 % of the packaging is fiber-based, bringing Apple nearer to its objective of utterly eradicating plastic from its packaging by 2025.
Today, Apple is carbon impartial for international company operations, and by 2030, plans to be 100% carbon impartial throughout all the manufacturing provide chain and all product life cycles. This signifies that each Apple system offered, from element manufacturing, meeting, transport, buyer use, charging, all the way in which to recycling and materials restoration, can have net-zero local weather influence.
Pricing and Availability
- The new MacGuide Pro fashions with M2 Pro and M2 Max can be found to order at present, January 17, on apple.com/retailer and within the Apple Store app in 27 nations and areas, together with the US. They will start arriving to prospects and can be in Apple Store places and Apple Authorized Resellers beginning Tuesday, January 24.
- MacGuide Pro with M2 Pro and M2 Max can be out there in Australia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, New Zealandand Singapore starting Friday, February 3.
- The new 14-inch MacGuide Pro with M2 Pro begins at $1,999 (US), and $1,849 (US) for training; and the 16-inch MacGuide Pro with M2 Pro begins at $2,499 (US), and $2,299 (US) for training. Additional technical specs, configure-to-order choices, and equipment can be found at apple.com/mac.
- Every buyer who buys a Mac from Apple can take pleasure in a free Online Personal Session with an Apple Specialist, get their product arrange in choose shops together with assist with information switch, and obtain steerage on methods to make their new Mac work the way in which they need.
- With Apple Trade In, prospects can commerce of their present laptop and get credit score towards a brand new Mac. Customers can go to apple.com/store/trade-in to see what their system is value.
- AppleCare+ for Mac supplies knowledgeable technical help and further {hardware} protection from Apple, together with as much as two incidents of unintended harm safety each 12 months, every topic to a charge.
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- Results are in comparison with previous-generation 2.4GHz 8-core Intel Core i9-based 16-inch MacGuide Pro techniques with Radeon Pro 5600M graphics with 8GB HBM2, 64GB of RAM, and 8TB SSD.
- Testing was performed by Apple in November and December 2022 utilizing preproduction 16-inch MacGuide Pro techniques with Apple M2 Pro, 12-core CPU, 19-core GPU, 16GB of RAM, and 1TB SSD. The Apple TV app film playback take a look at measures battery life by enjoying again HD 1080p content material with show brightness set to eight clicks from the underside. Battery life varies by use and configuration. See apple.com/batteries for extra data.
- Wi‑Fi 6E just isn’t out there in mainland China. It requires macOS 13.2 or later in Japan.
- Testing was performed by Apple in November and December 2022 utilizing preproduction 16-inch MacGuide Pro techniques with Apple M2 Max, 12-core CPU, 38-core GPU, 96GB of RAM, and 8TB SSD, in addition to a manufacturing Intel Core i9- primarily based PC system with NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 graphics with 24GB GDDR6 and the newest model of Windows 11 Pro out there on the time of testing, and a manufacturing Intel Core i9-based PC system with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics with 16GB GDDR6 and the newest model of Windows 11 Home out there on the time of testing. OTOY Octane X 2022.1 on preproduction 16-inch MacGuide Pro techniques and OTOY OctaneRender 2022.1 on Windows techniques had been examined utilizing a scene that requires over 40GB of graphics reminiscence when rendered. Performance assessments are performed utilizing particular laptop techniques and mirror the approximate efficiency of MacGuide Pro.
- Results are in comparison with previous-generation 16-inch MacGuide Pro techniques with Apple M1 Pro, 10-core CPU, 16-core GPU, 32GB of RAM, and 8TB SSD.
- Results are in comparison with previous-generation 16-inch MacGuide Pro techniques with Apple M1 Max, 10-core CPU, 32-core GPU, 64GB of RAM, and 8TB SSD.
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