At the very least two Russian creators have posted movies wherein they unbox what seems to be the subsequent base mannequin 14-inch MacBook Professional with an M4 chip. Apple, which hasn’t introduced the laptops but, is rumored to have a launch deliberate for November.
Over the weekend, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman pointed to a video posted by the Russian YouTube channel Wylsacom. He factors out that the packaging seems to be the identical because the M3 MacBook Professional, right down to the wallpaper on the label that Apple tends to alter yearly.
Within the 13-minute video, the host units up the laptop computer and runs some Geekbench exams alongside a 2022 MacBook Air. Primarily based on the occasions and CPU scores proven within the video, these look like these benchmarks. General, the MacBook Professional proven within the video aligns with expectations of fashions with spec bumps however no main outward modifications.
Then, this afternoon, Gurman highlighted one other Russian YouTuber, Romancev768, who additionally posted a video that they mentioned was of the M4 MacBook Professional. Like the primary video, its field has final yr’s wallpaper. However this one features a take a look at the “About This Mac” display screen of the laptop computer, indicating it has an M4 chip.
Gurman referred to as the potential leak “unprecedented,” a sentiment echoed by leaker ShrimpApplePro, who writes that “some vendor” claimed to have 200 MacBook Execs in inventory. “That is in all probability the most important warehouse leakage I’ve ever seen,” they wrote. ShrimpApplePro had additionally posted some photographs final month of apparently leaked 14-inch MacBook Professional packaging:
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