Apple's new 14” and 16” MacBook Pro get M3 chips, Touch Bar is no more

Apple’s big announcement day brought new 14” and 16” MacBook Pro notebooks powered by the new M3 chips. The entry-level is now a 14” device with the vanilla M3 chip and no Touch Bar - it is the natural successor of the 13” M1 MacBook Pro, but bigger and more expensive.

The new chips are the big improvement on the inside, while on the outside, these laptops (only the M3 Pro and M3 Max options) now have a Space Black option - darker, compared to the Space Gray, and Apple claimed the new color is less of a fingerprint magnet.

Apple said the 16” MacBook Pro with M3 Pro silicon should go for 22 hours on a single charge. The 14” versions come with smaller batteries, so this result would be lower, while the M3 Max variants will also cut into battery life, but we were given no specific number.

The 14” M3 MacBook Pro is the biggest improvement over its predecessor. It gets rid of the thick bezels that were on the 13” MacBook and go for a notch. It joins the family of bigger laptops with the Liquid Retina XDR display too.

The I/O on the new MacBook Pro laptops is pretty much like the M2 counterparts - three Thunderbolt 14 ports, an HDMI port, an SD card reader, and a MagSafe connector for charging. The screens are said to reach 600 nits of brightness, which should be 20% more than before.

The base 14” M3 MacBook Pro starts from $1,599 with 8 GB Unified Storage and 512 GB storage, while going for the 1 TB option would be $200 more.

The 14” MacBook Pro with an M3 Pro chip is starting from $1,999 with 18 GB Unified Storage and 512 GB storage, but there is also an option with 1 TB and 96W USB-C Power adapter for $2,399. The top tier sports the M3 Max, 36 GB Unified Storage, 1 TB storage version and costs $3,199.

The 16” MacBook Pro has a starting price of $2,499 for M3 Pro, 18 GB Unified Storage, 512 GB storage and 140W USB-C power adapter; the 36 GB Unified Storage version is $2,899. There are also two options with M3 Max - $3,499 for the 36 GB variant and $3,999 with 48 GB Unified Storage.

Apple MacBook Pro 2023

The M3 and M3 Pro options will start shipping in seven days - November 7. The M3 Max variants will arrive later, but Apple did not specify when exactly. All variants are up for pre-order at Apple’s website.

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