Before Black Friday officially kicks off, Amazon has introduced an early $200 discount for Apple's new MacBook Pro lineup powered by the M4 and M4 Pro, making them exceptional upgrades thanks to the latest discount. The 14-inch base model with 16GB unified RAM and 512GB of SSD storage is now down to just $1,399 for the Space Gray and Silver variants, making it one of the best 'price to performance' portable machines out there for carrying out a multitude of tasks, including gaming.

One area that we must praise Apple for was bumping the base unified RAM count to 16GB, meaning that buyers do not have to pay a premium to increase that number. If you want more firepower from your Mac, Amazon has also discounted the M4 Pro version that offers a 12-core CPU and 16-core GPU to $1,839, but there is even more good news. You can tick the $39.01 discount coupon before checking out, reducing the price to $1,799.99, making it the lowest figure for this configuration.

Unlike the base M4 MacBook Pro, this discount only applies to the Silver finish, but you get 24GB of unified RAM from the deal and 512GB of non-expandable storage. Irrespective if you purchase the nano-texture variant of Apple's newest portable Macs, every version that was announced earlier this year ships with Quantum Dot display technology, producing better image quality and gamut while offering the same mini-LED panel with ProMotion support.

One category that Apple focused on this year was gaming, and as tested on the M4 Mac mini, Death Stranding could maintain a solid 60FPS while running at 1080p, with the visual settings tweaked to 'Very High.' The M4 Pro will undoubtedly deliver better performance thanks to the extra CPU and GPU core count, with the increased unified RAM giving you additional freedom to run more programs in the background. Before upgrading, be warned that none of the components can be swapped later, so whatever you select will become your daily driver for many years.