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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...

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

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

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...

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

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?

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.

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

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.

Better display, more ports.

Also, there is no M6 Air yet.

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

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

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

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

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