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Ars Technica's review of Apple's new 14-inch M6 MacBook Pro, published November 10, 2026, calls it good but finds it lacks the features of Apple's flagship laptops. The base model keeps the MacBook Pro design Apple has used since 2021, with no touchscreen, OLED panel, Dynamic Island or glowing logo, yet starts at $1,999. That is $700 more than the 2020 M1 MacBook Pro and $400 more than the M5 MacBook Pro from a year earlier, which also came with a mandatory 1TB storage upgrade and a price increase. The reviewer praises the M6 chip and says it outperforms the top-tier MacBook Pro in some respects, since Ars Technica reported rumors that the M6 will not get Pro, Max or Ultra versions. The laptop offers two Thunderbolt 4 ports on each side, a MagSafe port, an HDMI port, an SD card reader and a headphone jack, and its keyboard and trackpad are comparable to the MacBook Air's. The 14.2-inch screen is a mini LED panel with local dimming, a higher resolution than the Air's displays, 1,000 nits SDR and up to 1,600 nits HDR, a 120 Hz ProMotion refresh rate, and an optional $150 nano-texture finish. The reviewer calls it no longer cutting-edge but still very nice. The M6 has 12 CPU cores, 12 GPU cores and a 32-core Neural Engine, with 16GB of RAM as the base and 24GB or 32GB options. Ars Technica hopes OLED, touch and ProMotion will eventually reach this model and the MacBook Air, provided Apple avoids a large price increase. The excerpt ends before the review's benchmark results.