14-Inch and 16-Inch MacBook Pro Turn One Year Old: When to Expect an Update - MacRumors

While we saw the instauration of respective caller iPad and Apple TV models today, we've yet to get immoderate of the Mac announcements we're expecting to spot earlier the extremity of the year. Coincidentally, the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models were announced precisely 1 twelvemonth agone today, featuring an wholly caller design, the M1 Pro and M1 Max chips, marque caller displays, MagSafe 3, and more.

The redesigned MacBook Pro models represented the archetypal large redesign of the high-end Mac laptop successful years and a large measurement guardant successful Apple's ongoing modulation to its ain silicon for the Mac lineup. One twelvemonth since its introduction, immoderate customers mightiness beryllium wondering what's adjacent for the MacBook Pro, truthful support speechmaking to larn more.

What to Expect

The MacBook Pro received a large redesign past year, successful summation to a caller 14-inch size that supplements the lower-end 13-inch exemplary which remained successful the lineup without a redesign. Given the caller plan for the larger models, Apple is apt to instrumentality with the existent signifier origin for respective years, truthful immoderate updates until past volition mostly beryllium insignificant spec bumps with show improvements.

The upcoming 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models are expected to beryllium powered by the as-yet-announced M2 Pro and ‌M2‌ Max chips, which physique connected the ‌M2‌ spot announced successful June. The ‌‌M2‌‌ Max spot is expected to diagnostic a 12-core CPU and a 38-core GPU, on with up to 64GB memory, portion the ‌‌M2‌‌ Pro volition beryllium somewhat little powerful. The design, display, and different features are expected to beryllium fundamentally identical to the existent models, meaning the lone large alteration is expected to beryllium the ‌M2‌ Pro and ‌M2‌ Max chips.

The ‌M2‌ chip, which is soon to go a household of ‌M2‌ chips, is the second-generation Apple silicon that furthers show and powerfulness efficiency. So acold connected the Mac side, the ‌M2‌ spot powers lone the 13-inch MacBook Pro and the redesigned 13-inch MacBook Air. In summation to the ‌M2‌ Pro and ‌M2‌ Max we're expecting to spot successful the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro, Apple is besides reportedly moving connected an "‌M2‌ Extreme" spot for its upcoming Apple silicon Mac Pro.

When to Expect New Models

If you're connected the lookout for a caller 14-inch oregon 16-inch MacBook Pro, you mightiness privation to hold a fewer much weeks. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple is expected to denote the caller MacBook Pros, perchance alongside a caller ‌M2‌ Mac mini, arsenic soon arsenic November. Writing successful his latest Power On newsletter, Gurman noted that Apple often schedules its caller Mac releases for November to abstraction retired its launches, and that caller Macs were not expected alongside today's ‌iPad‌ and ‌Apple TV‌ announcements.

While the caller MacBook Pros are connected way to motorboat successful the adjacent future, I wouldn't expect them to beryllium released alongside the iPad Pro. The institution has historically launched caller Macs successful November, arsenic was the lawsuit successful 2019 with the archetypal 16-inch MacBook Pro and successful 2020 with the archetypal Apple Silicon-based MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, and Mac mini.

Speaking of caller products, Apple is moving connected an M2 mentation of the Mac mini, which volition beryllium the archetypal update to the company's smallest Mac successful 2 years.

While it was initially expected Apple mightiness clasp a media lawsuit successful October to amusement disconnected the caller ‌iPad‌ and Mac hardware, it's present wide that determination volition beryllium nary specified lawsuit fixed that galore of the introductions person already been made via property release.