Apple is a company well known for being secretive, so when someone not only claims to own a ready-to-use, yet-to-be-released M4 MacBook Pro, but starts showing it off – unboxing video on YouTube When people see , they tend to sit and pay attention.
And that’s exactly what appears to have happened over the weekend. Russian YouTuber Wylsacom published a video claiming to depict the real M4 MacBook Pro before the device was announced. The YouTuber unboxed the device and shared his first thoughts on the product, as well as some benchmark scores compared to previous Apple devices.
But is the MacBook in question really genuine? Well, there are some signs that point to that possibility. Wylsacom has revealed the back of the laptop’s box, which hides the serial number in the process, and reveals a 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M4 chip, 16 GB of memory, and 512 GB of storage. It became clear that It has a 10-core CPU (up from the 8-core M3, matching the capabilities of the iPad Pro’s M4) and a 10-core GPU. The listed size and weight are also similar and the same as the existing M3 model. It’s unclear whether the 16GB of memory is a new base configuration (as some rumors suggest) or whether it’s a made-to-order model.
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Wylsacom also shared Geekbench scores that it claims are compatible with the M4 chip found in this leaked MacBook. Benchmarks suggest the M4 is up to 25% faster than Apple’s M3 chip, which matches the kind of performance seen in the latest iPad Pro, which also has a 10-core M4 chip. .
However, not everything is so convincing. First, this MacBook appears to use the exact same design on the front of the box as previous M3 series MacBook Pro laptops. It’s doubtful – Apple almost certainly updates the wallpaper it uses on its MacBooks every time a new model is released, so it’s doubtful that a new model is clearly reusing an older design. This is the same issue we raised last week when the M4 MacBook Pro was allegedly leaked.
In addition to that, the box states that the MacBook comes with three Thunderbolt 4 ports. In the M3 generation, all MacBook Pros with M3 chips have two Thunderbolt 3 ports (lower number and previous generation), only the M3 Pro and M3 Max versions have three Thunderbolt 4 slots. This is strange because However, a leak from Wylsacom shows that the base-level M4 MacBook Pro will have three Thunderbolt 4 ports. Is this a clue that the leak isn’t real, or has Apple decided to increase the number and generation of Thunderbolt slots on the entry-level MacBook Pro? It won’t be accurate until the product is announced. I don’t know.
(Image source: Wylsacom)
There are a few other things that I can’t confirm either way for now. The box shows model number A3112 and SKU MW2U3LL/A, which do not match existing MacBook devices. Similarly, Geekbench scores use the previously unused model identifier Mac16,1. These could be fake or they could be real, we don’t know for now. Similarly, this base-level MacBook Pro is available in Space Black, which was previously reserved for the M3 Pro and M3 Max models. We’ll have to see if this is proof that it’s fake, or if Apple has changed its MacBook color policy.
The leak also raises questions about how exactly Wylsacom acquired the MacBook Pro. Russia is currently facing sanctions over the war in Ukraine, and Apple has officially pulled out of Russia in response, making its products extremely difficult to obtain. Although there are ways for Russian citizens to obtain such items despite sanctions, there is no official way to obtain them, but Wylsacom has acquired unreleased MacBook Pros from companies keen on product security. You may need to think about it a little.
It’s very rare for a fully functional Apple product to be leaked before it’s announced, and it’s hard for something like this to happen in Russia, where official Apple products are hard enough to get, let alone pre-release products. , suggests that it is wise to be skeptical about this matter. leak. Still, if it’s really fake, it’s a pretty convincing fake.
In any case, when Apple announces its next line of MacBook Pros, it is expected to be announced in late October this year. If this leak proves to be genuine, Apple will have serious questions about why it happened.