New Apple Macbook Pro Release Date

The MacBook Pro 2021 has finally been unveiled, with Apple tree releasing all the features and specs ahead of its release next calendar week.

Available in both 14-inch and sixteen-inch sizes, the new MacBook Pro laptops tin can both exist picked up with either the new M1 Max or M1 Pro chips (not the previously rumoured M1X) and offer a sizeable operation boost over the previous Intel-powered 16-inch MacBook Pro.

Apple has besides upgraded the screen, now featuring Mini LED technology, a ProMotion 120Hz refresh rate and a controversial notch that’southward clearly been inspired past the iPhone 13.

But with extravagant price points, you’ll only want to consider these high-performance laptop if you’re going to brand the most out of its excellent GPU ability.

For everything else on the MacBook Pro 2021, keep on reading and keep this page bookmarked for hereafter updates.

Release Date

You can order both the xvi-inch and 14-inch versions of the MacBook Pro today, with shipping commencing October 26.

Even so, if you social club from Apple tree now, you may have to wait a little longer than the official release date. The website currently suggests a new shipment of the MacBook Pro won’t arrive until 12 Nov at the very primeval.

Price

The base £1899 / $1999 14-inch MacBook Pro comes with an 8-core CPU, 14-cadre GPU and 16GB unified retentiveness (RAM).

Then at that place’s a £2399 / $2499 model with a 10-core CPU, sixteen-core GPU and the same 16GB memory. These can, of course, be customised further. If you want the M1 Max, that’ll be another £500 / $500.

For the 16-inch model, the base model starts at £2399 / $2499 with a ten-cadre M1 Pro with 16-core GPU and 16GB memory. Then you have to go up to £3299 / $3499 to get the M1 Max with a x-core CPU and 32-cadre GPU forth with 32GB memory.

Design and Port selection

• Completely new look
• Far more ports
• These include SDXC and HDMI

Apple has created an all-new design for the latest MacBook Pro revision, and has gone back on on some of the changes it added for the last large MacBook Pro refresh in 2016.

The Bear upon Bar is officially expressionless, with a new full-elevation keyboard (and Affect ID sensor) taking its place. To give the keyboard fifty-fifty more than of a distinctive look, it now sits in a contrasting blackness well that Apple says helps the backlight stand out more.

Around the side of the MacBook Pro 2021 you’ll find some ports – and we’re not just talking about USB-C.

Now there’s HDMI, a slot for an SDXC card, 3x Thunderbolt iv ports within USB-C housing, a very capable headphone/mic port and MagSafe. Apple has reintroduced its magnetic charging port and this charging method will requite y’all a 50% charge in thirty minutes.

The xiv-inch MacBook Pro weighs 1.6kg, and is merely xv.5mm thick. We wouldn’t exactly call that an “ultra-portable”, but information technology’s however thinner and lighter than other high-functioning laptops such as the Razer Bract fourteen.

The 16-inch MacBook Pro isn’t quite as prissy, with the M1 Pro version weighing 2.1kg and the M1 Max configuration hitting the scales at a 2.2kg. It’due south also noticeably chunkier at sixteen.8mm.

Display

• Mini-LED displays with proper HDR support
• ProMotion adaptive refresh rates
• ….a notch

There are big changes for the display too, and one particular pattern element might stir up some controversy.

Like the iPhone 13, these MacBook Pro 2021 laptops have a notch housing a 1080p webcam that dips into the big screens. Nosotros’re non sure how we feel about this yet, simply it does feel like an odd improver to the laptop particularly as we’re not getting Confront ID.

At to the lowest degree the 1080p webcam should be a huge improvement over the older model. In that location’due south a six-speaker sound organisation too.

The Liquid Retina XDR displays themselves look lovely. Taking cues from the iPad Pro 12.9-inch, both models accept a Mini-LED panel for deeper blacks, higher brightness levels (Apple says 1000 nits) and ProMotion for adaptive 120Hz refresh rate.

In terms of resolution, the 16-inch has 3456 10 2234 while the xiv-inch 3020 x 1944. That means the 14-inch has more pixels than the previous 16-inch model. These displays do audio pretty special, so let’s hope that notch isn’t too distracting.

Performance

• Both tin can be configured with the new M1 Max and M1 Pro fries
• Up to 64GB retention, 8TB SSD

In that location are new M1 chipsets inside the MacBook Pro 2021. Both models can be configured with either the M1 Pro or M1 Max, though it looks like the ‘off-the-shelf’ models of the 14-inch will be sticking with the M1 Pro past default.

Both chips uses the same 5nm compages every bit the original M1 chip, but with more transistors and cores to boost the performance. The M1 Pro has upward to a 10-core CPU and 16-core GPU, while the M1 Max boosts the functioning even further with a 32-core GPU.

But what kind of performance tin we await from these specs? Apple claims the new 10-core CPU in both the M1 Pro and M1 Max results in 2.1x faster performance than the 8-core Intel Core i9 chip found inside the previous xvi-inch MacBook Pro.

Furthermore, the 32-core M1 Max GPU is apparently 2.9x faster than the previous MacBook Pro’due south AMD Radeon Pro 5600M GPU, while the xvi-cadre M1 Pro GPU is supposedly i.7x quicker.

Apple tree is aiming for a class-leading performance with the MacBook Pro when it comes to content creation. While we haven’t tested it just yet, we await it to be ane of the well-nigh powerful laptop options for tasks such as video editing and 3D blitheness. But as e’er, don’t expect this laptop to a good option for gaming unless yous’re happy sticking to Apple tree Arcade and cloud streaming via Xbox Game Pass and GeForce At present.

For a deeper look at what performance benefit these two distinct Apple-designed chips offer, check out our M1 Pro and M1 Max explainer pages.

You also get multiple RAM options, every bit y’all can pair with M1 Pro with either 16GB or 32GB of memory, while the M1 Max gives y’all the option of 32GB and 64GB.

In terms of storage, Apple tree is offering several options including 512GB, 1TB, 2TB, 4TB and 8TB. Upgrading the storage can exist very costly though, with the 8TB selection costing an eye-watering £2400 more than than the base of operations option.

Battery

• 14-inch MacBook Pro lasts up to 17 hours for video playback
• 16-inch MacBook Pro has a slightly larger battery
• 96W USB-C power adaptor can charge 50% in 30 minutes

Apple claims the 14-inch MacBook Pro’s 70Whr bombardment can final 17 hours of video playback, and 11 hours of wireless web browsing. You lot tin can look that effigy to drop further when functioning intensive tasks.

The 16-inch MacBook Pro has a larger 100Whr battery, which can apparently last 21 hours of video playback and and 14 hours of web browsing.

The 2019 model of the xvi-inch MacBook Pro tin only last upwardly to 11 hours on a single charge, so the new models have conspicuously benefitted from the improved power efficiency of the M1 chips.

We’ll of course take to test these figures once we get the machines into our labs, and so keep an heart on Trusted Reviews for our incoming reviews.

Apple is offering two different charger options at checkout: the 67W USB-C ability adaptor, and the 96W USB-C power adaptor.

The quondam is just bachelor with the base configuration fourteen-inch MacBook Pro, and unfortunately lacks the fast charging capability to fill the bombardment up by 50% in just thirty minutes.

Apple does offer the option to upgrade to the 96W USB-C ability adaptor, but yous’ll demand to pay an additional £20.