14-inch MacBook Pro with M4 Chip Unboxed: Benchmark Scores, Specs, and First Impressions

Apple will reportedly announce its new M4 Macs later this month, and they are expected to be released on November 1. But we apparently already have a look at the 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M4 chip in an unboxing video that just disappeared from YouTube. As detailed in a video shared by Russian YouTuber Wylsacom who cites Mark Gurman, the video offers several interesting tidbits such as the first benchmark scores of an M4 Mac.

The Leaked MacBook Pro M4

The lack of an in-display fingerprint sensor is quite surprising and so this video shows services a packaging that corresponds to what was seen in a leak back last month. The box design shares the identical wallpaper as per the M3 models but earlier someone reported that M4 MacBook Pro was privately being sold in a Facebook group.

According to the packaging details, this M4 MacBook Pro includes 512GB of storage, 16GB of RAM, three Thunderbolt 4 ports, an HDMI port, an SD card slot, and MagSafe charging. The M4 chip is listed as having a 10-core CPU and 10-core GPU, an upgrade from the M3 chip’s 8-core CPU.

By comparison, the current M3 MacBook Pro offers just two Thunderbolt 4 ports and 8GB of RAM so that would seem to imply that the base M4 MacBook Pro will have one additional Thunderbolt 4 port along with twice as much RAM. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman also suggested that all M4 Macs might ship with 16GB of RAM as a default.

In fact, Wylsacom also successfully ran a Geekbench test (a good sign) and these are the M4 performance scores: a single-core score of 3864 and a multi-core score of 15288. In comparison, the M3, in its typical single-core and multi-core performance, scores around 3000 and 11800 respectively, with the base M3 having two fewer CPU cores than the M4.

Whether this leak is genuine remains uncertain. Bloomberg has reported that Apple is expected to introduce its first M4 Macs by the end of October, with a release date of November 1.

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