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.
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.
In terms of performance, the difference is active cooling. That will matter to people who are regularly doing sustained CPU or GPU intensive workloads.
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...
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.
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...
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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.
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.
In terms of performance, the difference is active cooling. That will matter to people who are regularly doing sustained CPU or GPU intensive workloads.
That impressed me the most. 1TB storage is minimum now too.
They have huge margins and can absorb price increases of some of the components.