MacBook Pro with M4 SoC leaks out via official listing, might sport up to 28 GB of memory
The internet has been inundated with leaks surrounding Apple's upcoming M4-powered MacBook Pro lineup. While the usual chatter from industry analysts is hardly of any surprise, the recent M4 MacBook Pro unboxing videos that surfaced on YouTube were certainly the stuff of supply chain nightmares.
The unboxing videos gave us an early glimpse at many of the upgrades that the upcoming refresh of the base-model 14-inch MacBook Pro will boast, which include double the base memory as well as an additional Thunderbolt port allowing for more external displays. That being said, a Redditor recently published a screenshot of what appears to be the upcoming M4 MacBook Pro's purchase page, seemingly revealing even more details regarding the laptop.
According to the screenshot, the M4 MacBook Pro will indeed start at 16 GB of unified memory for the base variant, along with 512 GB of storage. Interestingly, the higher-tier listings of the base model pack 1 TB of storage with 28 GB of memory, which appears to be a rather odd memory configuration.
Apple's M3 Pro-equipped MacBook Pro arrived with 18 GB of memory, made possible by a triple-channel setup. The 28 GB memory configuration is far more discomfiting, and it will be interesting to see how Apple arrived at that number. However, there is a major red flag to this rumor - the unboxing video that we covered earlier indicated that the M4 MacBook Pro will arrive in a Space Black colorway, which is missing from the screenshot posted on Reddit.
At this point, to be perfectly honest, it has become incredibly complicated to gauge what is legit and what is not. A retail unit of an unreleased MacBook Pro being unboxed and benchmarked almost an entire month before launch is something that absolutely no one saw coming. Yet, here we are, in the thick of it again.
Of course, it is entirely possible that the screenshot is simply the result of someone playing around with the browser's 'Inspect Element' tool on Apple's website. However, that does not explain the obvious pre-release nature of the website. Moreover, had that really been the case, it is quite plausible that the perpetrator might have gone with a more conventional memory setup such as 32 GB, right?
All in all, the authenticity of the screenshot is hard to establish at this moment. We are less than two weeks away from the estimated launch date of the M4 MacBook Pro, which means that we won't have to wait long to see what Apple has in store for us.
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