Apple is set to unveil its next-generation M4 MacBook later this month, but a surprising twist has already surfaced. An unboxing video of the 14-inch M4 MacBook Pro has appeared on YouTube, revealing key details about the laptop.
We can be sure that the device in the video is a real M4 MacBook Pro as Mark Gurman from Bloomberg also shared the video on X (formerly Twitter).
Apple MacBook Pro M4 unboxing
As such, the video was posted by Russian channel Wylsacom, although they don't mention how they acquired the device prior to its official release. Nonetheless, the unboxing confirms four key upgrades to the base 14-inch MacBook Pro.
The box clearly mentions the device is powered by a M4 chip, and it’s with a 10-core CPU. That’s an upgrade over the 8-core M3 chip on last year’s model. The increase in CPU cores is expected to offer a 25% performance boost and the benchmark results shared by Wylsacom seem to support this claim.
In the Geekbench 6 benchmark, the new MacBook with the M4 chip scored 3864 points in the single-core test and 15288 in the multi-core test. For comparison, last year’s 16-inch MacBook Pro scored 2974 points in single-core and 20881 points in multi-core tests.
Another notable upgrade could be the bump in base RAM. There have been rumors that Apple may increase the minimum RAM to 16GB for future Macs, and we can see the box label of the M4 MacBook with 16GB of memory. However, we are unsure whether this is indeed a base variant of the device.
Additionally, the M4 MacBook Pro seems to come with three Thunderbolt 4 ports, a welcome upgrade from the two Thunderbolt 3 ports on current models.
The leak also hints at the introduction of a “Space Black” color option for the base 14-inch MacBook Pro. Currently, this color is only available on models with the more powerful M3 Pro or M3 Max chips.
Mark Gurman, known for his precise insights into Apple, expects the first Mac with the M4 chip to be released in late October and go on sale on 1 November. If that's true, we won't have to wait long for Apple to confirm those details.
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