Leaks of the yet-to-be-announced M4 MacBook Pro have been getting weirder and weirder lately. First, it was up for sale on Facebook. And now, as spotted by MacRumors, there seems to be an entire unboxing video of it on YouTube.
Weirder yet, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman retweeted the Russian YouTuber Wylsacom’s video with the comment: “Unconfirmed but looks fairly legitimate.” This isn’t some unknown YouTube channel, either. He currently sits at 11.3 million subscribers.
Unconfirmed but looks fairly legitimate: a Russian YouTube channel claims to have the yet to be announced M4 MacBook Pro and gave it a full unboxing and hands-on. We’ve seen prototypes leak early but never a full retail Apple device weeks in advance. https://t.co/LYrt68ZmEn
— Mark Gurman (@markgurman) October 6, 2024
It’s worth pointing out here that no leak of this level has happened at Apple before — if it’s real, we’re talking about a finalized product getting into the hands of a consumer before it has even been announced.
As for how it got into the hands of this particular consumer — who knows. Apple isn’t doing business in Russia at the moment and the box is in English, so it must have come from somewhere else. Maybe this YouTuber really did buy it from that private Facebook group. But even if that was the case, getting the laptop into Russia is a whole other problem they would have needed to get around.
The major problem with the other leaks also exists here — the box still shows the M3 wallpaper on it, almost making it look like someone just changed the text on the bottom of a normal M3 box. As we’ve said before, Apple always changes its wallpapers.
But let’s say we entertain the idea of this leak being real — here’s what the video suggests about the next MacBook Pro refresh:
This means, that if the leak is real, Apple has changed the minimum amount of RAM, the number of Thunderbolt ports, and the color range for the base model.
Alternatively, we’re just looking at an M3 Pro or M3 Max MacBook Pro with a box that has been tampered with. It’s not possible to say for sure whether it’s fake or not, but if it’s not, there must be a lot of trouble going down in the Apple offices right now.
The absolutely absurd idea of putting a touchscreen display on a mouse isn't exactly new. Turtle Beach already did it with its Command Series MC7, which features a 2.25-inch control screen. But apparently, even that wasn't ridiculous enough for Arctic Fox Technologies. Its new Super Mouse looks like someone took the chunky old Atari ST mouse, slapped a touchscreen and scroll wheel on it, and called it an upgrade.
The result is a rather unusual-looking mouse that is now on Kickstarter, starting at $199. And as ridiculous as it looks, some of its features are genuinely intriguing.
Apple is less than a day away from launching its highly anticipated OLED MacBook Pro with a touch-sensitive screen. But it appears that the upgrade is going to cost a pretty penny. According to a report by Bloomberg, Apple is reportedly eyeing a starting price of $2,899 for the 14-inch MacBook Pro, while the 16-inch version could start at $3,399 in the US.
"At $2,899, the 14-inch model would mark the highest starting price for a new MacBook Pro model, surpassing the $2,799 Apple charged for a 17-inch version introduced in 2006," says the report. The report claims that Apple is targeting a minimum price hike of $400 for its upcoming redesigned 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models.
I've spent a good amount of time digging into the spec sheet of the new M6 MacBook Pro (14-inch), and for all intents and purposes, this is a classic Apple "chip and connectivity" refresh. It's not a full redesign. The chassis, Liquid Retina XDR panel, speakers, ports, and battery, all of them carry over unchanged.
However, the M6 brings more cores, stronger on-device AI, higher memory bandwidth on the larger configs, and modern wireless. Here’s the practical rundown of what actually improved, and whether those gains are worth your money.