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points by gniv 2 days ago | 0 comments

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

  And it's still $1999.

Because the price hike happened in June, in this case from 1699 to 1999.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48672732 https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/apple-raises-pric...

[–] Hamuko 2 days ago

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

[–] gniv 2 days ago

Ah good point. Is there somewhere a comparison between M6 and M1 Pro?

[–] haseebws94 2 days ago

geekbench scores are roughly double for the m6 over the M1 Pro single core and multi-core CPU

https://nanoreview.net/en/cpu-compare/apple-m6-12-core-vs-ap...

[–] gniv 2 days ago

Thanks. So the GPU is worse! And the memory bandwidth is smaller.

[–] tefkah 2 days ago

like really what's the point of this laptop man, just trying to get more money out of people who otherwise wouldve gotten the M6 Air?

[–] fckgw 2 days ago

The Pro has a bigger brighter ProMotion display. It has active cooling, larger speakers, more ports, longer battery life, better graphics performance, better keyboard, and a larger default storage option (starts at 1tb).

If the Base M6 is good enough processor for you but want a more "premium" product, then the base Pro makes sense.

[–] foldr 2 days ago

In terms of performance, the difference is active cooling. That will matter to people who are regularly doing sustained CPU or GPU intensive workloads.

[–] philistine 2 days ago

I got an M5 Macbook Pro instead of an M5 Air because the Pro has more screen real estate, a much better screen, and its fans means I never hit the thermal maximum of the laptop.

[–] rjrjrjrj 2 days ago

Better display, more ports.

Also, there is no M6 Air yet.

[–] culopatin 2 days ago

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

[–] gniv 2 days ago

Mine has a broken fan so I have to run it in slow mode and it's still working fine.

[–] mono442 2 days ago

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

[–] magicmicah85 2 days ago

That impressed me the most. 1TB storage is minimum now too.