14-inch MacBook Pro and iMac version 2026 upgrade the processor to Apple M6, 24-hour battery but keep the same design and color options.

One day after launching the iPad mini with an OLED screen, Apple today continued to update the new processor for the 14-inch MacBook Pro and iMac duo. Users will have stronger performance in both graphics processing and local AI thanks to Apple's first 2 nm chip, but the price remains the same compared to the generation using the M5 chip.

The M6 ​​chip was introduced by Apple with the Mac mini at the end of August. This is the first time the company uses 2 nm architecture, which helps increase transistor density and more efficient energy consumption compared to previous generations. The M6 ​​has two more cores than the M5 chip. Notably, this is Apple's first processor with all three types of CPU cores including two super-processing cores, four performance cores and six energy-saving cores.

In particular, the superprocessor core prioritizes single-threaded performance and is Apple's most powerful core type. The performance cores are optimized for demanding multi-threaded tasks, while the energy-efficient cores handle background tasks. Apple emphasizes the M6 ​​has "the world's fastest single-threaded performance" and offers 1.2x faster multi-threaded performance than the M5.

Each core on the new chip has an artificial intelligence processing accelerator (Neural Accelerator), which increases maximum GPU computing performance for AI by 30% compared to M5. The M6's GPU also gets updated shader core architecture, Dynamic Caching, and hardware-accelerated ray tracing.

M6 supports 32 GB unified memory with 170 GB/s memory bandwidth, up to 10% faster than M5. Additionally, the M6 ​​can process FP8 directly in hardware, while the M5 processes FP8 through software. FP8 is an 8-bit format designed to make AI tasks faster and more memory efficient.

The M6 ​​version used on the new MacBook Pro has a 12-core CPU with 2 super-fast cores, 4 high-performance cores and 6 energy-saving cores, combined with a 12-core GPU. Previously, the M5 version had a 10-core CPU with 4 super-fast cores and 6 energy-saving cores, combined with a 10-core GPU.

Along with the M6 ​​chip, the new 14-inch MacBook Pro and iMac also support Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6 and faster SSD storage. Apple's 14-inch line of computers for professionals has a battery life of 24 hours, equivalent to the MacBook Air despite its stronger performance.

Upgrading the chip to M6 is a bigger step forward on the iMac because the previous model of this series used M4. The new version has twice the graphics performance and on-device AI performance has also increased 5 times compared to the previous generation. In addition, the "leap" from M4 to M6 is also the reason why the new iMac has SSD read and write speeds twice as fast as the version released at the end of 2024, thanks to PCIe 5.0 support.

The new iMac has an unchanged design and the same color options include: blue, green, pink, yellow, purple, orange and silver. The device still comes with two Thunderbolt 4 ports, there is no option to add the new standard Thunderbolt 5 port like Mac Studio, MacBook Pro and users need to pay extra to have a Gigabit Ethernet port.

MacBook Pro using M6 chip has starting price from 55 million VND or from 52.25 million VND for pupils, students, and people working in the education industry. This number is equivalent to the M5 version after the price increase last June. However, the new price also comes with a starting configuration that has a 1 TB SSD instead of 512 GB like last year.

iMac 2026 has a starting price of 42 million VND for the version using M6 chip with 10 GPU cores, 10 CPU cores and from 47 million VND for the version using M6 chip with 12 CPU cores, 12 GPU cores. The price for the educational program is from 40.1 and 44.2 million VND, respectively.

There is no information about when it will be sold in Vietnam.