Apple has announced the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6, a refresh built around a 12-core CPU, a 12-core GPU, and a Dual 16-core Neural Engine, with battery life rated at up to 24 hours. It starts at PHP 144,990, or PHP 137,990 with education savings, and will be available soon at apple.com/ph/store and Apple Authorized Resellers.
M6 performance and on-device AI
The 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 pairs a 12-core CPU with a 12-core GPU that delivers up to 30 percent faster graphics and up to 25 percent faster AI workloads than M5. It comes with 16GB of unified memory standard, configurable to 32GB, and memory bandwidth up to 170GB/s. Buyers coming from an M1 machine get up to 11x faster graphics and up to 13x faster AI, alongside a third-generation ray-tracing engine and Dynamic Caching.
Apple’s own benchmarks put LLM prompt processing at up to 13x faster than the 13-inch model with M1 and 1.3x faster than the M5 model, with Blender ray-traced renders up to 11.7x faster than on M1 and Xcode project builds up to 2.5x faster.
Battery, display, and connectivity
Battery life for the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 is rated at up to 24 hours. That’s up to 14 additional hours for Intel-based upgraders and up to four more hours for users coming from M1. Fast charging allows for 50 percent charge in 30 minutes with a compatible higher-wattage USB-C adapter such as the 96W Power Adapter.
The Liquid Retina XDR display peaks at 1,600 nits for HDR content with a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio, with a nano-texture option for cutting reflections. For connectivity, you get Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6, with support for up to two external displays. As for ports, there’s HDMI, MagSafe 3, three Thunderbolt 4 ports, an SDXC card slot, and a headphone jack.
Other features include a 12MP Center Stage camera with Desk View, a studio-quality three-mic array, and a six-speaker system with Spatial Audio. The laptop ships with macOS 27, comes in space black and silver, and uses an enclosure made from 100 percent recycled aluminum.
Price and availability
The 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 starts at PHP 144,990 for the base 16GB + 1TB model, and education pricing brings it to PHP 137,990. It will be available soon at apple.com/ph/store and Apple Authorized Resellers, with configure-to-order options at apple.com/ph/macbook-pro.
For more information, visit Apple’s MacBook Pro page.
Source: Apple Newsroom
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
It starts at PHP 144,990, or PHP 137,990 with education savings.
It will be available soon at apple.com/ph/store and Apple Authorized Resellers; no specific date has been announced.
A 12-core CPU and 12-core GPU, up to 30 percent faster graphics and up to 25 percent faster AI workloads, Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6, and up to 24 hours of battery life.
HDMI, MagSafe 3, three Thunderbolt 4 ports, an SDXC card slot, and a 3.5mm headphone jack.
Memory starts at 16GB and is configurable to 32GB. The release does not state storage capacities.
Emman Tortoza
Emman has been writing technical and feature articles since 2010. Prior to this, he became one of the instructors at Asia Pacific College in 2008, and eventually landed a job as Business Analyst and Technical Writer at Integrated Open Source Solutions for almost 3 years.
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