Russian YouTubers keep showing off alleged M4 MacBook Pros in historic Apple leak
Apple's M4 MacBook Pro seems to have made its way to Russian YouTubers after showing up on a private Facebook group in what might be the biggest pre-announcement leak of a retail-packaged Apple product.
M3 MacBook Pro
Leaks and rumors around Apple products may seem commonplace, but there's never been anything quite like what's apparently happening on Russian YouTube. Just hours after YouTuber Wylsacom posted an unboxing of an alleged M4 MacBook Pro, another has done the same.
A YouTube Short shared by user Romancev768 shows an identical M4 MacBook Pro in space black with 512GB of storage and 16GB of RAM being unboxed. What ties this device to the ones leaked at the end of September are the identical boxes and model numbers.
There are some discrepancies between these boxes and Apple's current retail boxes, like the format is completely different on the spec stickers. The wallpaper is the same on the alleged M4 MacBook Pro boxes as the M3 series, which plays into the potential that these are fake.
Apple has never broken out its chipset into the spec bubbles for the 512GB and 16GB -- here it shows "M4 chip." Apple usually puts the chip in the device name below these bubbles, as in "14-inch MacBook Pro with Apple M4 Pro chip."
The new sticker has a completely different layout, but shows all of the usual regulatory information. These stickers are very easy to fake and print out, and it's the only truly new and unique aspect that can be identified in any of the videos or leaks so far.
The alleged M4 MacBook Pro inside has three Thunderbolt ports, is colored space black, and has 16GB of RAM. A portion of the YouTube Short shows 16GB of RAM and M4 in an easily faked system info box.
Otherwise, the MacBook Pro shown could easily be the existing space black M3 Pro MacBook Pro, which has 18GB of RAM, not 16GB. The bump up to three Thunderbolt 4 ports from two Thunderbolt/USB-4 ports is a surprise, but not impossible.
It is also worth noting the model number and layout suggest these allegedly leaked models were destined for the US market. Apple doesn't currently do business with Russia, so no new MacBook Pro models would be making their way to the country.
There is only one way to know if these leaks are accurate, and that is once Apple reveals the new MacBook Pro models with M4 later in October. If these products are real, they will represent the biggest leak of an Apple product in history, even after the iPhone 4 in a bar, since the packaging was leaked as well.
Rumor Score: Possible
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Sorry, but no, MBPs that haven't even been introduced yet don't come with convenient retail packaging. Some people will believe anything they see on teh webz.
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Reagan was right about there being an evil empire. But the evil wasn’t due to the communism, it was due to the sadistic authoritarianism inherited from the czars.
Now, if these are supposed to be available in store on November 1, that means the demo units might be delivered around the 25th or 28th of this month. The ones for retail sale, probably not until the 29th (at the earliest) or 30th. All of that means, warehouses would need these units in stock around 24th or so. Using that date, it puts my second notion down for the count. I don't think these have shipped yet.
Overall, I believe these videos are fake. That they come from Russia make me believe that even more as the entire government there is hell bent on creating s*it to disrupt the whole world at this point- from political upheaval to economic distrust, etc.
I do hope that whenever Apple does have its event this month, that these videos are proven to be fake.
And western media / worshipers, er I mean viewers, being gullible and stupid as is now the norm, what a surprise!
And you need to get a clue and GTFO
https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/apple-macbook-pro-m4-leakage-gets-serious-with-200-units-reportedly-up-for-sale-on-social-media
Apple sometimes stocks products in store before launch so that they are available for order the same day as the announcement.
If it's real, it's not like this would be a huge leak for them, it's a minor refresh. The M4 chip is already available in the iPad and most of the rest of the Mac is unchanged vs M3 other than the extra TB port on the 14" model, like the 16" model.
If it was the Pro/Max models then it would be more interesting.
This may also suggest an event soon, I doubt they'd ship boxes 3 weeks in advance but this could vary by country. Last year, they announced the event for the 30th October on the 24th. They usually do events on Monday/Tuesday so that leaves 14th, 15th, 21st, 22nd, 28th, 29th October. Earliest announcement would be today or tomorrow, latest would be 23rd, within 2 weeks.
however, I’m leaning toward the actual laptop as being real.
But this did not all begin with Putin, Russia’s dysfunctional society can be back through Stalinism and Communism and even back to the days of the Tsar. Putin has simply amplified the worst of Russian society while destroying the best of its culture.