Apple has launched its new MacBook Pro (2026) in India. This flagship laptop of the company comes with the new M6 chipset, which is Apple’s first SoC built on 2nm process. It has a 12-core CPU. Apart from this, the new MacBook Pro has features like OLED display, 120Hz refresh rate and 12MP Center Stage camera. Currently, the configuration with M6 chipset is available only in the 14-inch model.
The starting price of the new MacBook Pro (2026) in India has been kept at ₹ 2,39,900. At this price, the base model with 14-inch display, M6 chipset, 16GB unified memory and 1TB storage is available.
Options are also provided to increase memory and storage. For 24GB unified memory, you will have to spend ₹ 24,000 extra, while for the 32GB memory variant, you will have to pay ₹ 48,000 more. At the same time, for 2TB storage, you will have to pay an additional price of ₹ 60,000 and for 4TB storage, you will have to pay an additional price of ₹ 1,80,000.
The option of nano-texture display is also available with the laptop, for which an additional ₹ 18,000 will have to be paid. This model is available in Space Black and Silver colors.
The new MacBook Pro is currently available for pre-order. Its sale will start in India from November 6 through Apple India’s online store.
Specifications and features of MacBook Pro (2026)
The new MacBook Pro has a 14.2-inch Liquid Retina XDR OLED display. Its resolution is 3,024 x 1,964 pixels and pixel density is 254 PPI. The display supports up to 1,600 nits peak brightness, P3 wide color gamut, True Tone and one billion colors. It also has ProMotion technology, which gives a refresh rate of up to 120Hz. The laptop runs on macOS 27 Golden Gate.
What is special in M6 chipset?
Apple M6 chipset has a 12-core CPU. It includes two Super Cores, four performance cores and six efficiency cores. Dual 16-core Neural Engine is also available with it. The company claims that this chip is up to twice better in peak compute performance than M5.
According to Apple, the M6 chipset can deliver up to 13x faster first-token performance in LLM prompt processing, up to 11.7x faster performance during ray tracing rendering in Blender, and up to 3.3x faster image processing in Affinity.
The company also claims project build performance to be up to 2.5 times better when compiling code in Xcode. This comparison has been made with the M1 model of 13-inch MacBook Pro.
Camera, Connectivity and Ports
The laptop has a 12MP center stage camera for video calling. For connectivity, Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6 and Apple’s N1 networking chip is available.
Talking about ports, it includes three Thunderbolt 4 ports, MagSafe 3 charging port, 3.5mm audio jack, HDMI port and SDXC card slot. Apart from this, backlit Magic Keyboard is also provided in the laptop.
