First Apple M2! The new 13-inch MacBook Pro is officially on sale

Last week, pre-orders for the first 13-inch MacBook Pro with Apple's own M2 chip went on sale today, starting at $1299.

First of all, in terms of appearance, the new MacBook Pro 13-inch still continues the mold of the old version. It adopts the design of curved edges, is about 15.6mm thin, weighs 1.38kg, and has two classic colors of silver and deep space gray.

It has a 13.3-inch retina display with a resolution of 2560×1600, multi-million color, 500-nit brightness, and primary color display technology. It has a 720p HD camera built into the top of the screen and no bangs.

Performance is the biggest highlight, its debut is equipped with Apple's own M2 chip, following Apple's traditional custom Arm architecture, using the second generation of 5-nanometer process, equipped with 20 billion transistors, compared with M1, M2 neural network engine performance improved by 40%, memory bandwidth increased by 50%.

Compared with the 10-core x86 MacBook series, the performance is 90% better under the same power consumption (15W); Compared to a 12-core laptop processor, 25% power consumption translates into 87% performance.

At the same time, it also integrates a new generation of media processing engine, which supports 8K H.264/H.265 videos, can play multiple 4K/8K videos at the same time, supports ProRes video codec, and supports external 6K display.

It is worth noting that, although the configuration is much higher, but the price rises, $1299 MacBook Pro only 8-core CPU+ 10-core GPU+8GB+256GB configuration, if all choose the top match, the price will be $1499.

Link: https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro/13-inch