Apple Brings AirPods 3, 14-Inch & 16-Inch MacBook Pros With M1 Pro and M1 Max Chips: Know India Price, Features

In a big update amid news of chip shortage, Apple just announced massive upgrades to the M1 chip. M1 Pro and M1 Max promise big jump in the performances.

Apple launched 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros on October 18

New Delhi: Apple Inc Monday introduced a range of products, upgrading its devices AirPods and Macs and bringing improved processors, among other things.

In a big update amid news of chip shortage, Apple just announced massive upgrades to the M1 chip that was looked as a solution to replace Intel on Apple’s entry-to-mid-level hardware. M1 Pro and M1 Max promise big jump in the performances.

Here is a list of the products announced at the October event Monday. 

HomePod Mini

Apple announced a new look for its HomePod Mini smart speaker. It will now be available in yellow, orange, and blue, besides white and black (space gray), from November.

India Price: Rs 9,900

AirPods 3

Launching the latest model of its massively popular true wireless earbuds, Apple introduced its AirPods 3 Monday, as expected. 

Looking similar to AirPods Pro, they are sweat and water-resistant with a battery life of 6 hours. The third-gen AirPods come with MagSafe and wireless charging, Spatial Audio and adaptive EQ, and have much shorter stems than before.

Pre-orders for the new AirPods open today and they will be available from next week. 

India Price: Rs 18,500. Available on EMI

Apple is also offering six months of Apple Music free with the AirPods.

M1 Pro and M1 Max Chips

Apple just introduced its “most powerful chips” ever — the M1 Pro and M1 Max, upgraded versions of the M1 chip that it brought last year. It forms the heart of its new MacBook Pro models.

M1, launched last year as Apple’s first in-house, Arm-based chip for laptops, features in Apple’s revamped MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro, and also the entry-level Mac Mini, besides the upgraded 2021 iMac and iPad Pro.

Apple promises 70 per cent better CPU performance by the M1 Pro. 

The even more powerful M1 Max, which comes with the same 10-core CPU configuration, promises four times the GPU performance of the original M1. It doubles the memory bandwidth (to 400GB/s), RAM (up to 64GB of memory) and GPU ( 32 cores, 4,096 execution units.) With 57 billion transistors, M1 Max is the largest chip that Apple has made yet. 

The new chip also allows you to connect up to four external displays to a single device.

14 Inch, 16 Inch MacBook Pros

In the first major redesign in its pro laptop lineup since 2016, MacBook Pro now includes a 14-inch screen, and comes with the new M1 Pro and Max chips, besides a notch, and more ports in addition to the standard Thunderbolt ones.

The HDMI port and SD card reader are back, and the model adds a MagSafe 3 connector for charging. 

You can order the device today. The Apple India website says it will be delivered free by Oct 27-30.  

Starting India Price: Rs 1,94,900

Apple also introduced a new-look 16-inch MacBook Pro, configurable with the M1 Pro and the M1 Max chips, The device will be available from next week, in silver and space gray.

The device weighs 4.7 pounds and is 16.8 mm thick, with a 16.2-inch display. 

Physical keys replace the Touch Bar. An HDMI port is on the right side, along with an SD slot and a Thunderbolt 4 port. It also has a headphone jack and two Thunderbolt 4 ports on the left. Apple said it’s the most connectivity we’ve ever seen from a Mac notebook.

Its new 1080p camera delivers twice the low-light performance than the previous MacBook cameras, Apple claimed, and the device comes with a new six-speaker sound system that supports Spatial Audio.

Starting India price: Rs 2,39,900