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Apple is continuing its week of announcements by revealing the latest MacBook Pro lineup, as well as its new top-of-the-line chip. The M4 Max has a 40-core GPU — double the number of cores found in the M4 Pro that the company revealed this week. It has a 16-core GPU with 12 performance and four efficiency cores and a 16-core neural engine that's said to be three times faster than the one on the M1 chip. The M4 Max supports up to 128GB of RAM with what Apple claims is 30 percent more memory bandwidth than the M3 Max offers.
The GPU is said to have faster cores and a ray-tracing engine that's twice as fast as the M3 chips. Apple claims the neural engine is up to twice as fast as the one on the previous-generation chipsets as well. In addition, Apple says the CPU is up to 2.2 times faster than the one in the M1 Max.
As with the M4 and M4 Pro, the M4 Max is built on second-gen 3nm tech to bolster power efficiency and performance. Like the M4 Pro (which can be used to power the new Mac mini), the M4 Max supports Thunderbolt 5, which should make it faster to move files around as it has a data transfer capacity of up to 120GB per second. And, as with all of Apple's other M-series Macs, devices running on the M4 Max will support Apple Intelligence features.
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The new 14- a16-inch laptops have some of the most powerful Apple silicon to date: the M4 Pro and M4 Max.
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In our review of the OLED G9, we gave it a 4.5-star rating and our Editors' Choice award. We felt the monitor delivers an incredible sense of gaming presence thanks to its ultrawide 5120×1440 resolution screen, while its fast refresh rate and response time made it ideal for high-octane action.
Our expert reviewer was referring, of course, to the OLED G9's 240Hz refresh rate and jaw-dropping 0.03ms response time: "Two 1440p OLED 16:9 screens this good probably cost the same or more. With better speakers and a proper USB-C laptop dock, and it would be a total winner," he wrote. And now that it's so heavily discounted, you might very well end up paying way more for two 1440p displays instead.
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 Apple today in its new MacBook Pro press release announced that the MacBook Air lineup now starts with 16GB of RAM, up from 8GB previously.
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 Alongside higher-end 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models with M4 Pro and M4 Max chips, Apple today announced a handful of upgrades for the entry-level 14-inch MacBook Pro, including the standard M4 chip, a minimum of 16GB of RAM instead of 8GB, an additional Thunderbolt port, a Space Black color option, and more.
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If you sign up for Dell's rewards program, you can this 34-inch Alienware ultrawide OLED gaming monitor for as little as $612. That's nearly half off the original price and definitely worth jumping on.
You can read our review of the Alienware AW3423DWF here, where it earned a stunning 4.5-out-of-5-star rating and our PCWorld Editors' Choice award. But to summarize, the display is a fantastic OLED upgrade for pretty much any gaming desktop, only slightly let down by a lack of USB-C for easy laptop connections. Its ultrawide 3440×1440 resolution, 165Hz refresh rate, and brilliant colors are perfect for PC gamers.
Launched with a price of $1,100, we've seen this monitor dip as low as $700 before. And even at its new "regular" price of $900, it's a good deal. But a poster on the SlickDeals forum noticed an unbeatable combo of discounts: Not only is the monitor on sale for $679.99 at Dell's online store, but you can also sign up for Dell's customer rewards program to grab an extra 10 percent off, bringing the final price down to $612.
Once you're on the Dell rewards page, click Benefits in the middle, then "Join for free. Scroll down a bit and you'll see a 10 percent off option for Alienware monitors. Click Claim Off
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