Following the M4 Pro benchmarks, the M4 Max Geekbench 6 scores have leaked online, proving the 2024 MacBook Pro is the fastest Mac ever.

While editing the pictures you see here, the M4 MacBook Pro felt more spritely than my M2 Pro Mac Mini, and its speed in displaying ... spent a bit more to get an M4 Pro or a lot more for an M4 Max, but the standard M4 has some marked improvements over ...

Unlike the 14-inch model, there’s no base M4 option with the 16-inch MacBook Pro, making the M4 Pro-toting model the ‘entry level’ choice. It features a 14-core CPU with 10 performance cores four efficiency cores, and a 20-core GPU.

The M4 Max still looks like a good upgrade compared with the M2 Max, with up to four additional high-performance CPU cores, a higher maximum RAM capacity, and two additional GPU cores. But again, it looks like the increased memory bandwidth could drive most of the GPU performance increases.

The base MacBook Pro now sports three USB-C ports with Thunderbolt 4 (one more than on the M3 version), an HDMI, an SD card slot, a high-impedance headphone jack, and a MagSafe charging port. It's available in space black and silver.

With the MacBook Pro 14-inch M4, Apple has created a pro-grade portable that impresses in every respect. It joins Apple's pantheon of outstanding laptops, and is set to take a well-deserved place at or near the top of our best laptops rankings.

The new M4 MacBook Pro makes it easier to pick the model you want by making the entry-level option better by adding more memory and a valued port.

They're significantly faster in some ways, and the nano-texture surface option for the screen keeps the M4 MacBook Pro 14 and MacBook Pro 16 as attractive as ever.

Apple will release the new Mac mini, MacBook Pro, and iMac with the M4 chips tomorrow. Here are the M4 Mac reviews.