Apple Starts Taking Pre-orders for Its 13-inch M2 MacBook Pro
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Just like Apple said it would, pre-orders for the 13-inch M2 MacBook Pro are live, with the machine starting from $1,299 for the base model and offers 8GB of unified LPDDR5 memory, along with 256GB of PCIe NVMe storage. The design of the MacBook Pro is changed from the previous model that features the M1 SoC. Also, it is the only version in Apple’s entire Mac lineup that sports a Touch Bar behind the keyboard, so those that did not appreciate Apple bringing back functional physical keys will likely be looking to purchase this model.
The biggest change of the M2 MacBook Pro, as you can tell, is on the inside, with the portable Mac sporting the company’s latest custom silicon called the M2. Manufactured on TSMC’s second-generation 5nm architecture, the new Apple Silicon might tout the same 8-core CPU configuration as the M1, but it gets an increase in the maximum number of GPU cores, which is 10. In case you were wondering how fast the M2 is compared to the M1, the CPU improvements were modest.