On Monday 18th October at approximately 6 pm GMT, Apple hosted the MacBook event. Few announcements were new colours in the HomPod mini, AirPods 3 will be available for £169 and a 14-inch and a 16-inch MacBook Pro will be on order right now.
The new MacBook Pros have had a massive overall and everything you can think of managed to get an upgrade. With features that you probably won’t be able to keep up with.
As far as those features and specifications are concerned, we have gone and put together a breakdown of the new 16-inch MacBook Pro tech specs.
The Technical specifications for the new 16-inch MacBook Pro
Pricing
- £2,399 10-core M1 Pro
- £2,599 10-core M1 Pro
- £3,299 10-core M1 Max
Colours
- Space Grey
- Silver
Processor
£2,399
- 10-core CPU with 8 performance cores and 2 efficiency cores
- 16-core GPU
- 16-core Neural Engine
- 200GB/s memory bandwidth
Media engine
- Hardware-accelerated H.264, HEVC, ProRes and ProRes RAW
- Video decode engine
- Video encode engine
- ProRes encode and decode engine
Configurable to:
- M1 Max with 10-core CPU and 24-core GPU
- M1 Max with 10-core CPU and 32-core GPU
£2,599
- 10-core CPU with 8 performance cores and 2 efficiency cores
- 16-core GPU
- 16-core Neural Engine
- 200GB/s memory bandwidth
Media engine
- Hardware-accelerated H.264, HEVC, ProRes and ProRes RAW
- Video decode engine
- Video encode engine
- ProRes encode and decode engine
Configurable to:
- M1 Max with 10-core CPU and 24-core GPU
- M1 Max with 10-core CPU and 32-core GPU
£3,299
- 10-core CPU with 8 performance cores and 2 efficiency cores
- 32-core GPU
- 16-core Neural Engine
- 400GB/s memory bandwidth
Media engine
- Hardware-accelerated H.264, HEVC, ProRes and ProRes RAW
- Video decode engine
- Two video encode engines
- Two ProRes encode and decode engines
Display
- Liquid Retina XDR display
- 16.2-inch (diagonal) Liquid Retina XDR display;10 3456×2234 native
resolution at 254 pixels per inch - XDR (Extreme Dynamic Range)
- Up to 1,000 nits sustained (full-screen) brightness, 1,600 nits peak brightness
- 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio
Colour
- 1 billion colours
- Wide colour (P3)
- True Tone technology
Refresh rates
- ProMotion technology for adaptive refresh rates up to 120Hz
- Fixed refresh rates: 47.95Hz, 48.00Hz, 50.00Hz, 59.94Hz, 60.00Hz
Memory
£2,399
- 16GB
- 16GB unified memory
- Configurable to:
- 32GB (M1 Pro or M1 Max) or 64GB (M1 Max)
£2,599
- 16GB
- 16GB unified memory
Configurable to:
- 32GB (M1 Pro or M1 Max) or 64GB (M1 Max)
£3,299
- 32GB
- 32GB unified memory
Configurable to:
- 64GB
Battery and power
- Up to 21 hours Apple TV app movie playback
- Up to 14 hours wireless web
- 100-watt-hour lithium-polymer battery2
- 140W USB‑C Power Adapter
- USB‑C to MagSafe 3 Cable
- Fast-charge capable with included 140W USB‑C Power Adapter
Storage
£2,399
- 512GB SSD
Configurable to:
- 1TB, 2TB, 4TB or 8TB
£2,599
- 1TB SSD
Configurable to:
- 2TB, 4TB or 8TB
£3,299
- 1TB SSD
Configurable to:
- 2TB, 4TB or 8TB
Charging and expansion
- SDXC card slot
- HDMI port
- 3.5mm headphone jack
- MagSafe 3 port
Three Thunderbolt 4 (USB‑C) ports with support for:
- Charging
- DisplayPort
- Thunderbolt 4 (up to 40Gb/s)
- USB 4 (up to 40Gb/s)
Keyboard and Trackpad
Backlit Magic Keyboard with:
- 78 (US) or 79 (ISO) keys including 12 full-height function keys and 4 arrow keys in an inverted “T” arrangement
- Touch ID
- Ambient light sensor
- Force Touch trackpad for precise cursor control and pressure-sensing capabilities; enables Force clicks, accelerators, pressure-sensitive drawing and Multi-Touch gestures
Wireless
- 802.11ax Wi‑Fi 6 wireless networking
- IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac compatible
- Bluetooth 5.0 wireless technology
Camera
- 1080p FaceTime HD camera
- Advanced image signal processor with computational video
Audio
- High-fidelity six-speaker sound system with force-cancelling woofers
- Wide stereo sound
- Support for spatial audio when playing music or video with Dolby Atmos on built-in speakers
- Spatial audio with dynamic head tracking when using AirPods (3rd generation), AirPods Pro and AirPods Max
- Studio-quality three-mic array with high signal-to-noise ratio and directional beamforming
- 3.5mm headphone jack with advanced support for high-impedance headphones
Size and Weight
- Height 1.68 cm (0.66 inches)
- Width: 35.57 cm (14.01 inches)
- Depth: 24.81 cm (9.77 inches)
- Weight (M1 Pro): 2.1 kg (4.7 pounds)
- Weight (M1 Max): 2.2 kg (4.8 pounds)
Built-in Apps
- App Store
- Books
- Calendar
- Contacts
- FaceTime
- Find My
- GarageBand
- Home
- iMovie
- Keynote
- Maps
- Messages
- Music
- News
- Notes
- numbers
- Pages
- Photo Booth
- Photos
- Podcasts
- Preview
- QuickTime Player
- Reminders
- Safari
- Shortcuts
- Siri
- Stocks
- Time Machine
- TV
- Voice Memos
What’s in the box
- 16-inch MacBook Pro
- 140W USB‑C Power Adapter
- USB‑C to MagSafe 3 Cable (2m)
There you have it, a quick overview of the tech specs for the 16-inch MacBook Pro. Are you picking one up soon?
Also Read: New Apple MacBook Pro with M1 chip announced
