New 13-inch MacBook Pro with Apple M2 chip and up to 20 hours of battery life announced: price, specifications

Along with the announcement of iOS 16, Apple just announced two new Mac devices at WWDC 2022, right after the Apple M2 chipset was unveiled. The company announced a new MacBook Air (M2) and a new 13-inch MacBook Pro with M2 chips. The main change in these devices is due to the new chipset, while the rest of the specifications and features remain the same as the latest generation devices.

The all-new 13-inch MacBook Pro is the successor to the 2020 13-inch MacBook Pro. As you might expect, the new 13-inch MacBook Pro is powered by the M2 chipset. Other key features include up to 20 hours of battery life, 500 nits of brightness, and ProRes. Let’s take a detailed look at the laptop’s specifications, features, and pricing.

13-inch MacBook Pro (M2): price and availability

The 13-inch MacBook Pro with M2 starts at $1,672. It will be available from next month.

13-inch MacBook Pro (M2): Specifications

The new MacBook Pro features a 13-inch Retina display with 500 nits of brightness and P3 wide color gamut. Looks like this model doesn’t get many design updates. Inside, the machine is powered by Apple’s own M2 chipset with unified LPDDR5 memory (RAM) up to 24GB. The M2 chip has four energy-saving and four high-performance cores. There is also a new 10-core GPU with increased L2 cache. CPU performance is 18% faster and GPU performance is 35% faster compared to M1 chip.

In terms of battery life, Apple claims that the new MacBook Pro (M2) can last up to 20 hours on a single charge. It also comes with a Thunderbolt bolt and it also supports Wi-Fi 6 connectivity. In addition, the MacBook Pro comes with an advanced camera ISP, studio-quality microphones, ProRes support, active cooling, a magic keyboard, and a touch bar that is a tiny an additional display with some useful quick action options and hotkeys. As the name suggests, the touchpad is equipped with touch input.