Apple’s entry 14-inch MacBook Pro now runs the M6 chip, keeping the existing design and adding more CPU and GPU cores. Preorders open on 28 October and the laptop reaches customers and stores on 6 November, starting at $1,999.
The M6 has a 12-core CPU and 12-core GPU, two more cores of each than the M5 it replaces. Every GPU core now carries a Neural Accelerator, and Apple says the chip has a dual 16-core Neural Engine and memory bandwidth of up to 170GB/s. It comes in space black and silver.
What Apple says about speed
In its launch announcement, Apple claims the GPU is up to 30% faster than the M5 and the Neural Engine up to 1.9x faster. Against the 2020 M1 model, it claims up to 11x faster graphics and 13x faster AI work. Time to first token on a local language model is listed as up to 1.3x quicker than M5.
These are Apple’s own figures, run on a 14-inch M5 with 32GB of memory and a 4TB drive, so independent tests will matter. Memory starts at 16GB and goes up to 32GB.
Display, ports and a 24-hour battery rating
The Liquid Retina XDR display reaches 1600 nits peak HDR brightness, with an optional nano-texture finish to cut glare. Ports are three Thunderbolt 4, HDMI, MagSafe 3, an SDXC slot and a headphone jack, and the machine now supports Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6.
Apple rates battery life at up to 24 hours, and says fast charging takes it to 50% in about 30 minutes with a compatible adapter such as the 96W one. The laptop runs macOS 27, and Siri AI is in beta in macOS 27.2 for six languages, English among them.
Price and where it sells
The US price is $1,999, or $1,899 for education buyers. Preorders run at apple.com and in the Apple Store app across 35 markets. The announcement gives only US pricing. We’ll update this post when Pakistan pricing is announced.
The new iMac with the same chip goes on sale on the same date, and Apple’s other changes this week include AI additions to its Creator Studio apps.
