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Before you buy a new M2 Pro or M2 Max Mac, here are five key things to know

The march of Apple silicon is not slowing down. To power the new  and 14-inch and  systems, Apple has unveiled the all-new , taking all the improvements of the A15 and A16 processors and applying them to the Mac chips, resulting in a significant boost in performance over the M1 line. Apple claims the M2 Pro and M2 Max chips bring 20 percent better CPU performance and 30 percent faster GPU performance than the M1 Pro and M1 Max. They also include the newer Neural Engine, which is up to 40 percent faster than that in the M1 series.

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