In his Bloomberg News newsletter this week, Mark Gurman reported that Apple is planning to hold a virtual event on Tuesday, March 8th to introduce the new iPhone SE and iPad Air for 2022. Apple has at least four new M2 Mac models prepped for release this year, Gurman reports..
Apple has at least four new Macs powered by M2 chips in its pipeline, including refreshed models of the MacBook Air, entry-level 13-inch MacBook Pro, 24-inch iMac, and entry-level Mac mini, according to Gurman.
It’s likely these Macs will launch later in the year after Apple finishes releasing its final Macs with M1 Pro and M1 Max chips.
Gurman believes Apple will remove the Touch Bar from the new entry-level MacBook Pro, and he expects the notebook will lack a ProMotion display.
MacDailyNews Take: Bring ’em on! Apple can’t dump the last Intel snail out of the Mac family too quickly for our taste!
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This makes no sense. There’s no mention of a 27″ iMac. There’s no mention of the Mac Pro. Are we to assume the 27″ iMac and the Mac Pro are to get CPUs based upon the M1 variants and not the M2 variants? Again, this makes no sense.
guessing:
the M1 Pro and M1 Max will be faster than the regular M2 variant (which will then all be bested by the eventual M2 Pro and M2 Max)
How do you know this?
M2 will almost certainly support higher clock rates it’s almost guaranteed it likely will have a higher instruction per clock rate. It is very possible that with other refinements an 8 core M2 could outperfo0m a 12M1 Max. core
The new “entry-level MacBook Pro” should simply be new MacBook Air. When it’s released, discontinue the current 13-inch M1 MacBook Pro model.
My guess is the new iPad Air will get The M1 chip.