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Apple introduces the new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6

73 points meetpateltech 58 minutes ago 64 comments

elicash 50 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 34 minutes ago | parent

You mean even for the air?

rickdeckard 20 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 18 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 15 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 16 minutes ago | parent

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

resters 16 minutes ago | parent

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

coreyh14444 50 minutes ago | parent

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

elicash 48 minutes ago | parent

Touch OLED laptops expected at tomorrow's event.

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

WillAdams 42 minutes ago | parent

Any possibility that these will also support the Apple Pencil?

the_sleaze_ 39 minutes ago | parent

Looking forward to the Apple Pink Pencil Cap Eraser

ramses0 17 minutes ago | parent

Product ReD in cahoots with U2 and U3.

miller_joe 46 minutes ago | parent

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

weird-eye-issue 49 minutes ago | parent

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

DetroitThrow 44 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 42 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 36 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 39 minutes ago | parent

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

carlgreene 36 minutes ago | parent

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

SecretDreams 33 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 33 minutes ago | parent

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

commandersaki 28 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 43 minutes ago | parent

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

eastbound 40 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 24 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 38 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 25 minutes ago | parent

The unbearable burden of consumerism.

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

telesilla 14 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 8 minutes ago | parent

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

alberth 33 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 19 minutes ago | parent

Touchscreens, supposedly.

gniv 32 minutes ago | parent

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

culopatin 28 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 21 minutes ago | parent

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

petetnt 31 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 28 minutes ago | parent

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

weystrom 30 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.

timpera 29 minutes ago | parent

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

SomeonesAccount 23 minutes ago | parent

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

TheDong 18 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 9 minutes ago | parent

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ta8903 8 minutes ago | parent

Yeah, I don't get it.

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

mococa 17 minutes ago | parent

Do you want AIshitification on your mac?

timpera 13 minutes ago | parent

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

Synaesthesia 6 minutes ago | parent

You can with Parallels.

carruler 26 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 11 minutes ago | parent

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

Havoc 21 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 18 minutes ago | parent

It looks more like students to me.

kotaKat 15 minutes ago | parent

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

paxy 9 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 4 minutes ago | parent

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

lp92 13 minutes ago | parent

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

financetechbro 9 minutes ago | parent

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

eli 4 minutes ago | parent

Nothing about that picture looks military

browningstreet 18 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 4 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...