During the night from Sunday to Monday, a video posted on YouTube caused a buzz around the world, a YouTuber in Russia managed to obtain a MacBook Pro M4 before the official announcement. If there can be many leaks before an Apple event, they are generally only photos or information on the characteristics and functionalities, however here, we are talking about an unboxing of the device and a test , an extremely rare occurrence.
After unboxing and testing, here is the MacBook Pro M4 on sale
When a new Apple product is at the assembly stage in partner factories, the Cupertino company takes particular care to ensure that units do not leave the manufacturing circuits. If the company manages to manage this quite well with its partners, there was obviously a huge failure for the MacBook Pro with the M4 chip.
While this new Mac is supposed to be at the heart of an Apple Event which will take place at the end of October, a MacBook Pro M4 found itself for sale on the Avito site, an online classifieds platform which allows users to buy and sell various items.
As you can see in the image above, we identify several interesting pieces of information in this announcement:
- Presence of the M4 chip with the mention of a 2024 model
- 16 GB of RAM
- 512 GB of storage
- Black color (possibility of a “Space Black” finish as is currently the case with the M3 MacBook Pros)
As this MacBook Pro M4 does not have the right to be present on the site (because Apple has not yet given its agreement for its marketing), Avito deleted the ad a few hours after its publication. It is unclear how many MacBook Pro M4s have been collected by people residing in Russia, is it the YouTuber’s MacBook Pro M4 that is the source of the video or is it another unit of the MacBook Pro M4 that it also was stolen from an Apple assembly partner?
Regardless, Apple Park must probably be cringing to see such a leak, especially since benchmarks of the M4 chip were revealed before Apple’s official announcement.