Unreleased M4 MacBook Pro Offered For Sale on Russian Site

9to5Mac: Following apparent photos of an M4 MacBook Pro box and a subsequent unboxing video, the unreleased model has now been offered for sale on a Russian classified ads site -- at a highly inflated price, naturally. Multiple units were advertised before the listings were removed, and it does now seem increasingly likely that the leaks are real.

Apple Pro tweeted a screengrab of one of the listing, which offered what appears to be the base model 14-inch M4 MacBook Pro, with the previously reported specs of 16GB unified memory, 512GB SSD, and three Thunderbolt 4 ports. We've also seen Geekbench results for a machine identified as "Mac 16,1" with performances in line with the reported specs. Rather than a one-off leak, it has been claimed that there are some 200 units out there. The ad on Avito was asking 720,000 rubles, which is around $7,400.

less base ram then the m3 systems?

[Joe_Dragon]

less base ram then the m3 systems?

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[Holi]

Pretty sure the base m3 model has 8gb, and a quick check on Apple's site verifies it.

Duplicate Story

[crunchy_one]

See below...

$7400

[DrXym]

So cheaper than Apple will charge for it?

Unified memory

[The-Ixian]

Did Apple just re-invent shared CPU/GPU memory?

I remember many years ago specifying in the PC BIOS the amount of system RAM that was allocated to the onboard GPU. I guess Apple just decided that it's a selling point now...

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[Guspaz]

A bit late to the party, aren't you? They've used unified memory in their M-series chips since the M1, and in their mobile products much longer than that.

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[The-Ixian]

Yep, I certainly am haha.

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[DamnOregonian]

No.

Shared is different than unified.
With shared, you partition off a chunk of RAM and make it local to the GPU, and non-local to the CPU.
I.e., transferring data from one partition to the other is still a relatively slow process.

With unified, all RAM is local to the CPU and the GPU- there's no transferring of the data at all.
For example, say you've got a vertex buffer stored on disk in a format that works with your graphics library (Vulkan, Metal, DX12) on a system with unified memory.
You load that i

Stolen?

[smooth wombat]

it has been claimed that there are some 200 units out there.

If this is true, this is not a "leak". This is outright theft from the company making these machines. Are these still being made in China, or did Apple get its India plant up and running?

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[davidwr]

Not necessarily: I can see making an early run of 200 machines with very restricted distribution. I can also see 1 of them being lost or stolen.

On the other hand, you could be right, this could be a single lot of 200 that was stolen.

Goodbye, $7400

[sloth jr]

There is no universe in which you will receive anything for your $7400 other than some happy Russian trolls.