The 2024 14-inch MacBook Pro with M4 Pro or M4 Max adds Thunderbolt 5 and up to 128GB of memory to the 14-inch body, for developers, photographers and video editors who need more performance or memory than the base M4 model offers.
Both reviews praise the excellent mini-LED screen, with Notebookcheck calling the matte option a big improvement in bright light, along with the fine build, quiet running and long battery life; Notebookcheck found the M4 Pro a large performance step. Digital Camera World found upgrades to memory, storage or chip expensive and notes nothing can be upgraded later.
1,000,000:1 contrast; 1,000 nits sustained full-screen XDR brightness; ProMotion up to 120 Hz, with fixed 47.95, 48, 50, 59.94 and 60 Hz rates; True Tone
Performance
Processor
Apple M4 Pro or Apple M4 Max
CPU cores
12, 14 or 16
Graphics
16-core GPU, 20-core GPU, 32-core GPU or 40-core GPU
Memory
24 GB, 36 GB, 48 GB or 128 GB
Storage
512 GB to 8 TB
CPU
M4 Pro: 12-core CPU with 8 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores, or 14-core CPU with 10 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores; M4 Max: 14-core CPU with 10 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores, or 16-core CPU with 12 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores
GPU
16-core or 20-core (M4 Pro), 32-core or 40-core (M4 Max) GPU with hardware-accelerated ray tracing; Media Engine with H.264, HEVC, ProRes and ProRes RAW acceleration and AV1 decode, with two video encode and two ProRes engines on M4 Max
AI engine
16-core Neural Engine
Memory type
Unified memory; M4 Pro takes 24GB or 48GB; M4 Max takes 36GB (14-core CPU) or 48GB, 64GB or 128GB (16-core CPU)
Memory bandwidth
273 GB/s (M4 Pro), 410 GB/s (M4 Max with 32-core GPU) or 546 GB/s (M4 Max with 40-core GPU)
Storage type
SSD, configurable up to 4 TB (M4 Pro) or 8 TB (M4 Max)
Battery and size
Battery life (maker's claim)
Up to 22 hours
Battery capacity
72.4 Wh
Weight
1.6 kg
Thickness
15.5 mm
Width × depth
312.6 × 221.2 mm
Battery life detail
M4 Pro up to 22 hours video streaming and 14 hours wireless web; M4 Max up to 18 hours video streaming and 13 hours wireless web; lithium-polymer battery
Charger
70 W USB-C Power Adapter included with the 12-core-CPU M4 Pro; 96 W with the 14-core-CPU M4 Pro and M4 Max
3 × Thunderbolt 5 (USB-C) with charging, DisplayPort 2.1, Thunderbolt 5 and USB 4 (up to 120 Gb/s); HDMI (up to 8K 60 Hz or 4K 240 Hz) with multichannel audio output; SDXC card slot; MagSafe 3; 3.5 mm headphone jack with high-impedance headphone support
External displays
M4 Pro up to two at 6K 60 Hz over Thunderbolt, or one at 6K 60 Hz over Thunderbolt and one at 4K 144 Hz over HDMI, or one at 8K 60 Hz or 4K 240 Hz over HDMI; M4 Max up to four (three at 6K 60 Hz over Thunderbolt and one at 4K 144 Hz over HDMI), or three (two at 6K 60 Hz plus one at 8K 60 Hz or 4K 240 Hz over HDMI); all alongside the built-in display
Keyboard
Backlit Magic Keyboard, 78 (US) or 79 (ISO) keys including 12 full-height function keys
Trackpad
Force Touch trackpad
Speakers
High-fidelity six-speaker sound system with force-cancelling woofers; wide stereo; Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos
Microphones
Studio-quality three-mic array with directional beamforming
Biometrics
Touch ID
In the box
14-inch MacBook Pro, 70 W (12-core-CPU M4 Pro) or 96 W USB-C Power Adapter, USB-C to MagSafe 3 Cable (2 m), polishing cloth (nano-texture display only)
Configurations
Processor
Memory
Storage
Apple M4 Pro, 12-core CPU, 16-core GPU
24 GB
512 GB
Apple M4 Pro
24 GB
1 TB
Apple M4 Pro
48 GB
4 TB
Apple M4 Max, 14-core CPU, 32-core GPU
36 GB
1 TB
Apple M4 Max
128 GB
8 TB
Pros and cons
Pros
+Up to 128GB of unified memory and 546GB/s of bandwidth with the 16-core-CPU M4 Max
+Three Thunderbolt 5 ports plus HDMI, SDXC and MagSafe 3
+120Hz mini-LED XDR display with 1,600-nit peak HDR brightness and up to 1,000 nits outdoors in SDR
Cons
−The entry model has a cut-down M4 Pro (12-core CPU, 16-core GPU) and a 512GB SSD
−Apple rates it at up to 22 hours of video streaming (18 with M4 Max), less than the 14-inch M4 model's 24
