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Apple introduces the new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6

78 points meetpateltech 1 hour ago 83 comments

elicash 57 minutes ago | parent

Nano-texture upgrade option is coming for the whole line of products.

Edit: the thing I'm confused about is it seems there are at least two but maybe three different things that they are calling "nano-texture". On buying screens, the Studio Display and iPad Mini say "Nano-texture glass" and the new MacBook Pro says "Nano-texture display." But the Duo marketing says "Nano-texture finish."

I get that the internal Duo screen has the film over it and so it says "finish," but is there a difference between "glass" and "display"?

commandersaki 40 minutes ago | parent

You mean even for the air?

rickdeckard 27 minutes ago | parent

"Nano-texture glass" and "Nano-texture display" should refer to the same: A microscopic etching into the display glass.

"Nano-texture finish" on iPhone Duo refers to an additional layer they put on top of the display panel. It's basically a sticker with a similar (same?) surface structure (they can't put it on the display glass itself because it's too thin)

floydnoel 25 minutes ago | parent

I could be wrong, but I think glass=hard, while finish=soft. The inside Duo screen is not hard like the outer glass.

elicash 22 minutes ago | parent

I get glass vs finish. But there's a third term being used for the new M6 MacBook Pro, which is nano-texture "display." Someone clarified that it's the same as the "glass" so I take this to just be Day 1 marketing confusion that'll hopefully get cleaned up on the buying screen.

codeduck 23 minutes ago | parent

It's preparation for the inevitable nano-texture cloth you need to buy from Apple to wipe the screen with.

resters 23 minutes ago | parent

Maybe Apple is shifting the terminology from display to glass as an homage to fine watch terminology.

coreyh14444 56 minutes ago | parent

Wasn't this rumored to have OLED or am I confusing it with something else?

elicash 54 minutes ago | parent

Touch OLED laptops expected at tomorrow's event.

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/10/25/macbook-pro-with-touchs...

WillAdams 49 minutes ago | parent

Any possibility that these will also support the Apple Pencil?

the_sleaze_ 45 minutes ago | parent

Looking forward to the Apple Pink Pencil Cap Eraser

ramses0 23 minutes ago | parent

Product ReD in cahoots with U2 and U3.

miller_joe 53 minutes ago | parent

I believe Apple is expected to announce MacBook Pro 16” with OLED on Nov 6th (macrumors.com)

weird-eye-issue 56 minutes ago | parent

After using a 16" laptop it would be hard for me to go back

DetroitThrow 51 minutes ago | parent

I ended up doing the opposite! After being on the go with 15, 16, and 17 inch laptops I've finally moved to smaller 13 and 14 inch screens.

It's much, much easier to transport even though I do miss the screen real estate.

technothrasher 49 minutes ago | parent

I travel a lot with my 13" MacBook Air and can't imagine wanting to deal with anything bigger and heavier.

eknkc 43 minutes ago | parent

Yeah 14" pro is the best thing I have ever moved around with. I have a studio display at my desk though.

kphorn 46 minutes ago | parent

The good news is bigger laptops coming tomorrow in the phased release.

carlgreene 43 minutes ago | parent

I feel like I am about to go the opposite way lol. Love the 16" screen...hate lugging it around

SecretDreams 40 minutes ago | parent

Really just function of mobility? Move a lot? 15-16 is combersome. Stationary often, maybe just roaming from your desk to your couch/bed? 16 is totally fine.

I'm in the 14-15 camp w/ lighter form factors being worth the premium.

I tried below 13 after the trend of smaller laptops from a couple years back - I now don't believe anyone who tells me they're regularly productive on these smaller form factors lol.

icedchai 39 minutes ago | parent

Same. I had a 14" M1 Pro and found it the screen too small for my aging eyes.

commandersaki 35 minutes ago | parent

Yeah. I love my 16" almost max specced out, but for travel I wanted something lighter and compact so I got a 13" m5 mba.

Love both.

Danox 50 minutes ago | parent

Nice, but in the long term, Apple is going to need to bring memory in-house.

eastbound 47 minutes ago | parent

Apple has moved from a "Big day out" of marketing per year, where all product lineups would be announced, with novelty and conferences, to rolling releases along the year.

Do they get the same marketing impact?

hurfdurf 31 minutes ago | parent

Apple has had release-weeks in spring and fall, with some variance, for a while now:

https://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#mac https://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#ipad

makmanalp 45 minutes ago | parent

Man every time I want to get a new macbook air they come up with a new macbook pro which means 6 months later they're going to come up with a new generation of airs by which time I think "let me wait a bit and see if people like it", and so here I am with a 2022 M2 that is perfectly fine except for the disk being too small.

rickdeckard 31 minutes ago | parent

The unbearable burden of consumerism.

"You didn't even finish your M2 yet and already want to refill your plate?"

telesilla 21 minutes ago | parent

I'm still on my early 2022 macbook 14" M1, which I was thoughtful enough to get 64gb ram for at the time, and remain still incredibly happy. M6 must be nuts!

neilsimp1 15 minutes ago | parent

Genuine question from someone who knows nothing about Apple products... can't you replace/upgrade the drive?

arghwhat 7 minutes ago | parent

Heh, no, it's soldered.

If you throw enough money at a sufficiently skilled technician it can be done, but no M.2 slots in sight here.

233mhz 6 minutes ago | parent

Oh you silly boy, of course you can, it's extremely easy, here is a video showing how to do it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xrg7nPG6_UU

AppleBananaPie 4 minutes ago | parent

Thanks! I can't believe I didn't know how easy this is!

pbasista 4 minutes ago | parent

They are soldered in. Replacement itself can probably be done by a professional repair technician who is equipped with the right tools. But it is not a self-service job that anyone can do.

On top of that, the drives might be somehow paired to the motherboard. And I would imagine that pairing a new one with the existing motherboard may require some proprietary software that only Apple has.

These are only my assumptions though. People e.g. at Louis Rossmann's repair shop might know more.

alt227 2 minutes ago | parent

This is an Apple device, the word upgrade does not exist in their world.

rTX5CMRXIfFG 6 minutes ago | parent

Just get the Air. Moore's law peaked a long time ago and the differences between the M-generations are too small to be meaningful.

FinnKuhn 5 minutes ago | parent

I still have the original M1 Pro (thankfully with enough disk space) and I still don't really see a reason to upgrade. Since the M1 all these MacBooks are more than powerful enough for anything I might want to do and the original battery life was so good an upgrade would harldy be worth it.

alberth 39 minutes ago | parent

I thought Apple "Pro & Tell" day is tomorrow.

Makes me now wonder what's in store for tomorrow's pro launch.

mastry 25 minutes ago | parent

Touchscreens, supposedly.

gniv 38 minutes ago | parent

And it's still $1999. That's impressive. I paid the same for the M1 Pro in 2021.

culopatin 34 minutes ago | parent

And it’s still working amazing. Other than trying to run an agent locally I haven’t ran into any limiting bottlenecks

mono442 28 minutes ago | parent

They have huge margins and can absorb price increases of some of the components.

Hamuko 2 minutes ago | parent

A bit less impressive considering that it's the M6 and not the M6 Pro.

petetnt 37 minutes ago | parent

It seems that you can only get 32GBs of RAM maximum for the new 14" M6 Macbooks? M5 still has 64GB options available. edit: the larger configurations are only available for the Pro and Max chips apparently.

cmdrmac 35 minutes ago | parent

I think the M5 Pro can be configured with the 64 gb option, not the regular m5 chip.

lettergram 6 minutes ago | parent

I'm running an M5 max with 128Gb of RAM right now on a 14" macbook pro

weystrom 37 minutes ago | parent

Great hardware, but I can't stand MacOS anymore after switching to Linux on home dekstop. KDE is such a breath of fresh air after years of dealing with Apple's idiosyncrasies.

I think I'll keep my Framework 13 Pro preorder.

cdelsolar 8 minutes ago | parent

Yeah I use KDE as well for my desktop and it’s the perfect environment. (Btw I use Arch)

Still I’m very tempted by the new MacBooks. I don’t know of any laptop that is a tenth as good and I don’t want to sit at my desk all day to use a computer.

cosmic_cheese 5 minutes ago | parent

I’m using KDE on the gaming box I recently transitioned away from Windows as well as on a secondary single-use laptop where Linux has been installed for a while.

It’s not bad, but I find it still to be very much an acquired taste. It’s fine for my usage, where the DE has barely any impact but having been using macOS as my main OS for the better part of 30 years, it would probably drive me insane if I had to shift my main body of computer use to it. It’s not any one thing, but dozens of papercuts that can’t be configured away (I’d need to maintain my own fork to fix them) as well as the more Windows-like desktop paradigm.

timpera 35 minutes ago | parent

Bring back Boot Camp and let us install Windows 11 on these, you cowards!

SomeonesAccount 29 minutes ago | parent

Why the heck would one want to do that???

TheDong 24 minutes ago | parent

I purchase the hardware, I should be able to do what I want with it. I want apple hardware for the good processor specs and battery life and general hardware quality.

Apple should be forced to release the necessary hardware specs to develop drivers so that I can use my hardware I purchased as I want. They should be required to let me own my own signing keys to boot my own software.

Anyway, I'd personally want bootcamp because it's a step closer to being able to install Linux, an operating system that lets me have a good tiling window manager that works.

Why the heck would anyone want to use macOS willingly, where the window manager and file browser are both complete unconfigurable trash.

SJMG 16 minutes ago | parent

> Why the heck would anyone want to use macOS willingly, where the window manager and file browser are both complete unconfigurable trash.

How about suffer a lightly deoptimized workflow on one platform for the interoperability of the ecosystem…?

rTX5CMRXIfFG 9 minutes ago | parent

There's just no getting "then don't buy it" for people who obviously don't agree with Apple's terms and conditions, is there? Not every product sold in the market will be done your way, and you can't act oppressed here because if you don't like Apple computers, you have a ton of other options...

SJMG 17 minutes ago | parent

Run software without crossover/parallels/wine/GPTK

ta8903 14 minutes ago | parent

Yeah, I don't get it.

If you could install linux, however, then I would buy one yesterday.

SuperShibe 2 minutes ago | parent

you can!

https://asahilinux.org/

timpera 10 minutes ago | parent

I recently snagged a really good deal on a Macbook (very nice hardware!), but the more I use it, the more I struggle with macOS (even though a few utilities can help bring some of Windows' features).

I used to be able to completely boot into Windows on my Intel mac a few years ago, but Apple no longer supports it for some reason. It's a shame, especially since the ARM64 version of Windows 11 has gotten very good now.

It would also be nice to be able to install Linux too. It's my own hardware, after all!

ericmay 6 minutes ago | parent

> It would also be nice to be able to install Linux too. It's my own hardware, after all!

You can install both Windows and Linux on MacBooks. For Windows you may need to buy Parallels[1] or something but you can do it.

[1] https://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/

timpera 2 minutes ago | parent

Are you sure? It is my understanding that Parallels is just a VM, like VMWare Fusion, and that there's no way to natively dual boot Windows on Apple Silicon.

alt227 5 minutes ago | parent

Choice and freedom?

mococa 23 minutes ago | parent

Do you want AIshitification on your mac?

timpera 19 minutes ago | parent

No, I just want to be able to boot into Windows 11. It worked really well on Intel macs.

Synaesthesia 12 minutes ago | parent

You can with Parallels.

carruler 32 minutes ago | parent

Don't think it's worth moving from previous max products yet to be honest. My M3 MAX still does a hell of a job whenever I need it.

cmenge 18 minutes ago | parent

Agree. I'm still on my M1 Max w/ 32g, and I can't really find a reason to upgrade.

Havoc 28 minutes ago | parent

Interesting choice of pic...a guy with a military camo hat, laptop propped up on a hardshell field deployment case...but in a crop field. That's quite a departure from Appe's usual creatives sipping soy lattes vibe

rubyfan 24 minutes ago | parent

It looks more like students to me.

kotaKat 22 minutes ago | parent

The alt-text was "Two people perform fieldwork using MacBook Pro outdoors on a sunny day", apparently.

paxy 16 minutes ago | parent

Lmao so some human/AI was told to show "fieldwork" and decided it meant people standing in the middle of a field.

eli 11 minutes ago | parent

Some fieldwork does happen in a field. They look like perhaps botany or biology students.

lp92 20 minutes ago | parent

They are just trying to portray "working in the field" creative types/students and alluding to all day battery life.

financetechbro 15 minutes ago | parent

Not all camo is military. That to me looks more like the camo that you find at bass pro shop

FinnKuhn 4 minutes ago | parent

To me it looks like farmers or biologists that use a MacBook because it is durable and has excellent battery life (or at least that seems to be the message when you read the rest of the announcement).

eli 11 minutes ago | parent

Nothing about that picture looks military

bcvvvy 7 minutes ago | parent

Especially seeing is the things break if you fart near them too loudly.

browningstreet 25 minutes ago | parent

I got the 14” M5 with 24GB RAM and love it. Better screen than an Air; more portable than the Pro. Great middle machine.

throwaway270925 11 minutes ago | parent

Apparently after the memory and storage shortage we are also experiencing a power supply shortage now - if you choose the base 16GB/1TB config you cant even choose any power supply as an option, guess its a use-once device now...

ericmay 9 minutes ago | parent

For Apple's laptop range when was the last time you could choose your power supply? Was that ever an option?

Am I missing something?

entrope 4 minutes ago | parent

Apple laptops historically included a power supply. Now some models don't, and you have to buy it as a separate item.

I appreciate the frustration, but as a separate item then a user can choose any power supply on the market, rather than being stuck with one that Apple chose.

artimaeis 2 minutes ago | parent

I think the M2 Macbook Air was the first time I remember seeing an option, choosing between a 2 port charger or a single port one.

Even today if you go to the Mac config tool and choose the M5 Pro you get to choose between the standard 70 W or upgraded 96 W.

lettergram 7 minutes ago | parent

Am I reading this correct? Max of 32Gb of RAM?

> With 16GB of unified memory standard, configurable up to 32GB, and higher memory bandwidth up to 170GB/s, MacBook Pro makes multitasking and working with demanding apps and large projects even faster.

So they're basically removing the ability to run local models effectively. I wonder if they'll bifurcate their market to enable those.

ericmay 1 minute ago | parent

> I wonder if they'll bifurcate their market to enable those.

No they won't, the market for "running local models" is approximately 0. There's nothing to bifurcate anyway because once they release the more capable chips they'll be able to be configured with hiring amounts of RAM.

Apple in recent years has been updating their laptop range or specific models (Air or something) with their latest base M series chip (M4, M5, M6, &c.) and then later comes the higher end CPUs. But the base series chips don't have the hardware to it seems support higher RAM loads, or maybe they are artificially restricted in some way.

paxy 5 minutes ago | parent

Minor rant – why come up with a consistent CPU naming scheme (Mx generation with Pro, Max etc. tiers) but then sell variants of each with different numbers of cores? It tosses the entire convention out of the window.

It is especially annoying during resale or benchmarking, because “M5 Pro” by itself doesn't convey enough information, and you have to count the number of CPU & GPU cores to figure out the actual SKU.