New 13-inch MacBook Pro with new Apple M2 and up to 24GB of unified memory

Apple has just announced that the 13-inch MacBook Pro will join the MacBook Air as the second Apple laptop to feature the new M2 chipset, also announced today. Unlike the MacBook Air, the 13-inch MacBook Pro doesn't get a visual update, but it gets all the benefits of the new chip, so you'll see better performance. It has a new 8-core CPU, 10-core GPU, and up to 24GB of unified memory.

As for what this means in terms of performance, Apple claims the new MacBook Pro is 39% faster than the M1-powered MacBook Pro in both image processing and gaming. The Apple M1 used an 8-core GPU, so it's clear that the new 10-core GPU helps here. What's more, MacBook Pro with M2 can be configured with up to 24GB of unified memory (RAM), 50% more than M1. This also helps improve performance. Apple is also promising an 18% improvement in performance per watt compared to the Apple M1, so power efficiency is still a huge concern.

If you're still using an Intel-powered MacBook Pro, especially the 8th Gen Core i7, you'll get up to 3.4x better graphics performance and up to 3.3x better gaming performance. Apple also threw out some other metrics, including ProRes transcoding being three times faster (compared to the M1 MacBook Pro). Apple also claims up to 20 hours of battery life, which remains Apple Silicon’s main advantage.

Aside from performance, this model doesn’t change much. In fact, Apple has kept the Touch Bar, even though it was removed from the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros. The display is the same 13.3-inch panel with P3 wide color gamut and 500 nits of brightness. Unlike larger MacBook Pro models, this model doesn't have a webcam notch, but the camera does have an "advanced ISP" that should help improve image quality.

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