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Apple released the 14-inch MacBook Pro with its new M6 chip, now available for preorder at $1,999 for a base configuration of 16GB RAM and 512GB storage. This follows a price increase earlier in the year that added $300 to the base 14-inch model, which previously shared the same M5 chip as the cheaper MacBook Air.
Apple has released a new 14-inch MacBook Pro built around its M6 chip, featuring a 12-core CPU, 12-core GPU, and Dual 16-core Neural Engine. The laptop adds Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, faster storage, and up to 24 hours of battery life, alongside existing features like the Liquid Retina XDR display and 12MP Center Stage camera.
Apple announced a new 14-inch MacBook Pro powered by its M6 chip, its first built on a 2nm process with a 12-core CPU, up from 10 cores in the M5. The laptop keeps the same $1,999 starting price with 16GB of memory and retains ports including three Thunderbolt 4 USB-C, MagSafe 3, HDMI, and an SD card slot. Preorders begin October 28th, with shipping starting November 6th, a day before Apple is expected to unveil a separate touchscreen MacBook Pro.
Apple has refreshed its all-in-one desktop after a year's gap, introducing the M6 chip in 12- or 16-core configurations alongside a 16-core neural engine. The company says the new model delivers up to five times the AI performance and twice the graphics speed of the M4 iMac, while adding Wi-Fi 7 and faster memory. The 24.5-inch Retina display still supports 4.5K resolution and can drive two external 6K monitors.
Apple has launched a new entry-level iMac powered by its M6 chip, following the processor's earlier debut in the Mac mini and Mac Studio. The chip brings up to 12 CPU cores, 12 GPU cores, a dual 16-core Neural Engine and 170GB/s memory bandwidth, with memory configurations starting at 16GB and scaling to 32GB.
Apple has updated the 14-inch MacBook Pro with its new M6 chip, which the company says delivers 30 percent faster graphics and a 25 percent boost to AI workloads compared to the M5 version. The laptop also gains Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and up to 24 hours of battery life, with 16GB of unified memory as standard and storage starting at 1TB.
Apple introduced a refreshed 14-inch MacBook Pro built around its new M6 chip, which adds two CPU and GPU cores over the M5 and includes a dual 16-core Neural Engine. Apple says the GPU is up to 30% faster for graphics and 25% faster for on-device AI, with battery life rated up to 24 hours and new Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6 wireless support. The laptop opens for pre-order October 28 starting at $1,999, with other specs like the display, ports and chassis unchanged from the M5 model.
Apple unveiled a new iMac generation powered by its M6 chip, skipping the M5 generation entirely. The base model starts at $1,499 with a 10-core CPU/GPU, while a $1,699 version offers 12-core CPU and GPU configurations. Preorders begin October 28th with availability starting November 6th.
Apple's redesigned iPad mini uses a binned version of the A20 Pro chip in its 128GB and 256GB configurations, with one fewer CPU core and only a single 16-core Neural Engine instead of two. Only the 512GB model, starting near $999 with options, gets the full six-core CPU and dual 16-core Neural Engine, while base models start at $699.
A developer has released a free macOS app that converts Google's EmbeddingGemma 2 multimodal embedding model into a speech-to-text tool, transcribing an hour of audio in about 13 seconds on a base MacBook Air. The system keeps the original audio encoder untouched and instead trains a small 'reader' model to map audio slices into the text embedding space, matching them to the closest of roughly 229,000 English words, with a separate model adding punctuation. The app, EmbeddingGemma Transcribe, runs entirely on-device using the Mac's Neural Engine and currently has a word error rate of about 5%, compared with 2-3% for leading dedicated speech models.
Apple is preparing to launch a 14-inch MacBook Pro with its new M6 chip later this month, keeping the current design. The M6 adds a Dual 16-core Neural Engine for faster on-device AI processing, a 12-core CPU with a new three-tier core structure (super, performance, and efficiency cores), a 12-core GPU, and is built on a new 2nm manufacturing process that Apple says improves power efficiency.
Apple has issued watchOS 27.0.1 to address a bug causing some Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 devices to restart unexpectedly. Affected users reported diagnostic logs showing a panic-full file tied to a timeout in the watch's Neural Engine. The update can be installed via the Watch app on a paired iPhone or directly on the watch.