Appears like Apple is completed with product releases in 2022. After the iPhone and iPad refreshes, all eyes have been on the Mac refreshes, which have been rumored to return out in November this 12 months. Nevertheless, it seems increasingly seemingly that we cannot see any extra Mac releases in 2022.
Famous Apple journalist, Mark Gurman, stated in his newest Energy On e-newsletter that we cannot see any extra Mac releases in 2022, with M2-based Mac refreshes coming in 2023. Appears just like the M2 family-based 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Professionals would be the first ones to reach.
14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Professional refresh more likely to arrive in March 2022
Gurman clarified that we’ll see all the brand new Macs from Apple beginning early 2023. He had a little bit of perception into the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Professional fashions. He wrote, “I’m informed that Apple is aiming to introduce the upgraded fashions—together with M2-based variations of the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Professionals—within the first quarter of calendar 2023 and has tied the launches to the upcoming macOS Ventura 13.3 and iOS 16.3. These software program updates are anticipated to debut between early February and the start of March.“
The calculated guess right here is that since Apple hardly ever has any launches in January or February, however usually in March, we will anticipate to see these new Macs in March 2023. This strains up with a current MacBook Professional rumor which stated the MacBook Professional refresh would arrive in 2023. It could additionally make sense that the brand new MacBook Professional fashions aren’t arriving in 2022, because the M1 Professional and M1 Max chips are nonetheless faster than the M2, and the urgency for an improve is not all that a lot.
Gurman additionally gave an replace on the Mac mini, saying “A brand new Mac mini stays in growth, and the corporate continues to check variations with the identical M2 chip because the 13-inch MacBook Air and MacBook Professional, in addition to an M2 Professional chip, which hikes the CPU and graphics counts. If Apple certainly launches the M2 Professional variation, we will anticipate the corporate to in all probability wind down the still-available Intel mannequin.“
Gurman additionally stated that the replace to Apple’s finest Mac, the Mac Professional, will even arrive in 2023, lacking Apple’s two-year transition timeline.
