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Apple’s “Peek Efficiency” tournament got here and went, and there used to be no MacBook Professional in sight. In spite of hypothesis pointing to a imaginable March divulge for the high-powered computer, Apple unwrapped the Mac Studio and Studio Show on Tuesday as a substitute. (We were given a brand new iPad Air and iPhone SE, too.) Alternatively, it is nonetheless imaginable {that a} new 13-inch MacBook Professional may observe 2021’s MacBook Professional 16 and MacBook Professional 14.
Learn on for the whole lot we’ve got heard to this point concerning the rumored new 13-inch MacBook Professional.
When will new MacBook Professionals be introduced?
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, a seasoned Apple watcher, estimated in February that the 13-inch MacBook Professional, succeeding the 2020 MacBook Professional, can be introduced all the way through Apple’s March tournament. (DigiTimes additionally mentioned a brand new style can be coming on the tournament, however it has a blended accuracy document and Twitter leaker @dylantk‘s account has disappeared because it first of all posted some similar rumors.) The rumor used to be reinforced by way of a contemporary EEC submitting, which incorporates a minimum of one new computer, style A2681. Notice that his prognostications do not (but) come with a brand new MacBook Professional 14 or 16 for 2022.
As we now know, the 13-inch MacBook Professional did not arrive at Apple’s most up-to-date tournament. Alternatively, the brand new computer may nonetheless release within the first part of 2022.
An M2 chip?
The so-called M2 is being bandied about as an replace to Apple’s first-gen M1 entry-level model, despite the fact that we’ve got heard no main points past that. AppleTrack and others have mentioned that the aforementioned specifications would remove the whole lot that makes a MacBook Professional a “professional” style, particularly in mild of hypothesis a few made over Air, however I disagree. If the rumored M2 chip has specifications someplace between the M1 and M1 Max, say 8 cores (with six or 8 P cores), give a boost to for 32GB RAM, 14 GPU cores and no ProRes accelerator, it might serve rather smartly as a more cost effective Professional for low-end content material introduction, corresponding to maximum photograph modifying. Now not everyone seems to be modifying video. And that also leaves room for a gentle, much less tough Air.
Maximum just lately, Gurman wrote {that a} developer instructed him Apple has been trying out a couple of Macs with a brand new chip, and that this new chip’s specifications fit the ones of the M2 that Gurman predicted remaining yr.
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Touch Bar: Yes or no?
According to AppleTrack, a previously reliable source on Weibo indicates that the design of the new 13-inch MacBook Pro wouldn’t change. If it’s true, that means the Touch Bar is staying — a decision that won’t thrill everyone. It also means no updated ProMotion display.
