Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Wednesday, October 30th, 2024. I'm Brian McCullough today.

The Apple release week continues with new Macbook pros.

GitHub goes multi-model, alphabet earnings were good, but

Reddit earnings were massive, why Samsung is having such a hard time since the summer, and a summary

of the color Kindle reviews. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech. Apple has updated the Macbook Pro with M4 Pro or M4 Max Chips, Thunderbolt 5 and 16

gigabytes plus of RAM starting at $1,999 for the 14 inch and $2,490

for the 16 inch shipping November 8th quoting the verge. The entry level 14 inch

Macbook Pro is also getting a small design upgrade in the form of an

extra USBC Thunderbolt four port on the right hand side and a space black

option to match its more premium brethren. Like previous

models the M4 pro equipped laptops will start at $1,999 for the 14 inch

the 16 inch once again starts at 2,, but it's getting an upgrade to 24 gigabytes of RAM.

The basic 14-inch M4 Macbook Pro still starts at 1599, but that model now mercifully

starts with 16 gigabytes instead of 8 gigabytes.

The new Macbook Pros will be available on November 8th with pre-orders available now. of chip bumps and ram improvements, the 14 and 16 inch pros with M4 Pro Max Chips, are also

the first Mac laptops with Thunderbolt 5 ports.

All three Macbook pros come with new 12 megapixel webcams that feature a desk view and they can each

be configured with a new nanotexure display capable of up to 1,000 nits of SDR brightness and

1600 nits of HDR. Those ancillary upgrades are SDR

those ancillary upgrades are nice but the big changes are still in the

chips.

Apple claims that the entire M4 generation of chips has the world's

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