Apple has introduced the new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6, a laptop for college students, business users and creators featuring on-device AI capabilities and up to 24 hours of battery life.
The M6 chip has a 12-core CPU, a 12-core GPU with Neural Accelerators in each core, and a Dual 16-core Neural Engine. Apple says the GPU delivers up to 30 percent faster graphics performance and up to 25 percent faster on-device AI workloads compared with M5. The Neural Engine delivers up to 1.9x faster performance than M5.
The laptop has 16GB of unified memory standard, configurable up to 32GB, and memory bandwidth of up to 170GB/s. Apple says it delivers up to 11x faster graphics and up to 13x faster AI performance for users upgrading from M1. Battery life is up to 24 hours, which Apple describes as the longest ever in a Mac.
Key features of the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 include a Liquid Retina XDR display with up to 1600 nits of peak HDR brightness and a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio; an optional nano-texture display; Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6; support for up to two external displays; HDMI, MagSafe 3 and three Thunderbolt 4 ports; an SDXC card slot and headphone jack; a 12MP Center Stage camera; and a six-speaker sound system.
The 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 starts at $1,999 (U.S.) and $1,899 (U.S.) with education savings. Pre-orders begin October 28, 2026, in 35 countries and regions, including the U.S., with availability starting November 6, 2026. It comes in space black and silver.
