Overview
- Apple announced refreshed M6 versions of the 24‑inch iMac and the entry 14‑inch MacBook Pro with pre-orders opening Oct. 28 and first deliveries scheduled for Nov. 6.
- The M6 is built on TSMC’s first‑generation 2nm process and adds higher core counts, increased memory bandwidth up to 170 GB/s, Dual 16‑core Neural Engines and Neural Accelerators in GPU cores to speed AI workloads.
- Both machines adopt Apple’s N1 wireless chip, replacing Broadcom to enable Wi‑Fi 7, Bluetooth 6 and Thread, and the iMac gains optional 2.5Gb Ethernet and PCIe 5.0 SSD support.
- Apple kept base prices at the post‑June levels — iMac from $1,499 and the 14‑inch MacBook Pro from $1,999 — while reviewers say the upgrade is most meaningful for users on Intel or early M chips and for local AI users.
- Design, displays and color options are unchanged, and the refresh ties into Apple’s macOS 27 and Siri AI push by boosting on‑device compute, which could shift more AI tasks off cloud services and into users’ machines.