MacBook Pro M6 Review: A Slight Upgrade, But Still The Most Accessible MacBook Pro - Engadget
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It's more of the same, but that's still pretty great.
When I reviewed the M5 Max MacBook Pro earlier this year, I predicted that it might soon feel out of date whenever Apple's fabled touchscreen MacBook Pros arrived. That's even more true for the new MacBook Pro with an M6 chip, which was briefly announced last week before the new touchscreen-equipped PROLED XDR MacBook Pros arrived. Those systems are clearly going to get most of the attention this holiday season from Apple's marketing team and deep-pocketed Mac-heads, so where does that leave the lowly entry-level MacBook Pro?
The M6 MacBook Pro is more of the same design we've seen for years, with a slightly faster chip. And yet, at $1,999, it's still a pretty compelling machine for anyone not crazy enough to spend an extra $900 for an OLED touchscreen and a slightly lighter system. Even Apple's leftovers are still miles ahead of most of the competition.
The biggest selling point of this MacBook Pro is Apple's new M6 chip, which we've already seen in the recent Mac mini. It's a 12-core CPU, 12-core GPU system-on-a-chip, which is slightly more powerful than last year's M5 chip and its 10 CPU cores and 10 GPU cores. The CPU is made up of two super cores for single-threaded work, four performance cores for more intensive multithreaded tasks and six efficiency cores for background tasks. The M6 chip also features dual 16-core neural engines for the first time, which helps to make it twice as fast at AI tasks compared to the M5 chip, according to Apple.
Apple's own benchmarks suggest otherwise modest gains for the M6 chip. The company claims that it's 11.7x faster at 3D rendering compared to the M1 MacBook Pro, while the M5 chip is 9.2x faster than that older system. The M6 is reportedly 3.2x faster while playing…
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