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Apple introduces the new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6

Apple today announced the new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6, delivering more performance, powerful on-device AI capabilities, and faster connectivity.
Up to 13x faster time to first token performance for LLM prompt processing compared to the 13-inch MacBook Pro with M1, and up to 1.3x faster than the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M5. Up to 11.7x faster render performance with ray tracing in Blender compared to the 13-inch MacBook Pro with M1, and up to 1.3x faster than the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M5. Up to 3.3x faster image-processing performance in Affinity compared to the 13-inch MacBook Pro with M1, and up to 1.2x faster than the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M5. Up to 2.5x faster project build performance when compiling code in Xcode compared to the 13-inch MacBook Pro with M1, and up to 1.3x faster than the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M5. A project is edited in Adobe After Effects on a 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6. An image is edited in the Pixelmator Pro app on the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6. Lines of code are compiled in Xcode on the new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6. Phenomenal battery life: In addition to the huge leap in performance, battery life gets up to 14 additional hours for Intel-based upgraders and up to four more hours for users…
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