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Apple Potentially Facing Worst Leak Since iPhone 4 Was Left In a Bar (macrumors.com) 22

"Alleged photos and videos of an unannounced 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M4 chip continue to surface on social media, in what could be the worst product leak for Apple since an employee accidentally left an iPhone 4 prototype at a bar in California in 2010," writes MacRumors' Joe Rossignol. From the report: The latest video of what could be a next-generation MacBook Pro was shared on YouTube Shorts today by Russian channel Romancev768, just one day after another Russian channel shared a similar video. The clip shows a box for a 14-inch MacBook Pro that is apparently configured with an M4 chip with a 10-core CPU and a 10-core GPU, 16GB of RAM, 512GB of storage, three Thunderbolt 4 ports, and a Space Black finish. According to the "About This Mac" software menu shown in the video, the MacBook Pro in the video is allegedly an unreleased November 2024 model. [...]

Apple is well known for having a culture of secrecy, so this magnitude of leak is rarely seen for its products. As previously mentioned, this could be the most significant leak for Apple since Gizmodo obtained and shared photos of an iPhone 4 prototype that a then-employee of the company accidentally left behind at a bar in California. In that case, Apple got law enforcement involved, but how it acts this time around remains to be seen.

Apple Potentially Facing Worst Leak Since iPhone 4 Was Left In a Bar

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  • MacBook Pro ... 16GB of RAM, 512GB of storage

    Those are some rather modest numbers for a supposedly pro machine.

    • MacBook Pro ... 16GB of RAM, 512GB of storage

      Those are some rather modest numbers for a supposedly pro machine.

      It’s offered at a Pro cost point. Nothing supposed about the iPrice.

    • "Pro" is just a marketing ploy. Felling inferior, or normal, buy the pro version to be a real man... ie its all bs,
    • Pro is for Profits with apple
    • Those are some rather modest numbers for a supposedly pro machine.

      For professional coding 16Gb and 512GB storage is a really solid system you could easily use for work.

      Yes professional video work would demand more, but some on - there are many kinds of pro and lots and lots of them can work well with 16GB of RAM.

      Now the base previously being at 8GB RAM, and 256GB storage? Yeah THAT was really not pro because you would run into edges of the system all the time. It would work but I think with this bump you

      • there are many kinds of pro and lots and lots of them can work well with 16GB of RAM

        You've hit the nail on the head, my friend. In Apple parlance, pro means "could possibly be used for pro purposes, and sold for a pro price", as compared to the rest of the world's definition of "pro".

  • Why is this the "worst" of anything. These "leaks" are good PR and free advertising.
  • now the people won't be amazed by the ultimate reveal of a minor tech refresh to a boring laptop

    did they finally add a touch screen? that would be shocking

  • Approximately 12 months after Apple released several laptops featuring the Apple Silicon M3 chips... thanks to this AMAZING leak we NOW KNOW that, in the near future, they're planning to release one or more laptops featuring the Apple Silicon M4 chip!

    This is earth-shattering, stupendous news! Glad I was sitting down because man, you could knock me over with a feather right now!

  • The iPhone 4 was a huge release—new form factor, 4x the resolution of previous iPhones, and a significant camera bump. It may seem quaint now, but the iPhone 4 was amazing at the time. Apple testers even had special cases made so it looked like the then-current 3GS. That was a major leak.

    This laptop? Seems like a spec bump. A welcome spec bump, sure, but just a spec bump. If this is the worst leak Apple's had since the iPhone 4, then they've done a great job keeping things under wraps since.

  • The new Macbook is going to have the current Apple CPU, announced 6 months ago with the iPad Pro
    The same RAM and SSD as is already available
    The same ports
    The same screen

    • At the time the iPhone leaked, there was a lot new about the design of the thing, so it was a pretty big deal.

      But even though the amount of detail of this leak is impressive, the effect of this leak seems extremely minor as most of the system ability was guessed at and the design remains the same. I was thinking about getting a new laptop after an update and there is nothing here I didn't expect already.

  • Likely just some Guerilla-style marketing.

  • what difference does this make?

  • A lot of protos sure have been getting left at bars are restaurants in recent years. Sort of an IRL "I'll just leave this here...". And low cost hype and marketing because people are naturally curious about what they are not supposed to know about.

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