Apple Just Broke a Tradition It Held for 21 Years - MacRumors

Apple broke a contented it maintained for 21 years past week, releasing nary caller Macs successful the 4th fourth of the twelvemonth for the first clip since 2000, arsenic antecedently anticipated devices similar the next-generation MacBook Pro and Mac Pro models person seemingly been pushed retired to this year.

Historically, Apple launched astatine slightest 1 caller Mac exemplary each twelvemonth successful the 4th fourth that runs betwixt October and December, starting successful 2001 with the motorboat of the iBook G3. This means that determination has been a caller Mac toward the extremity of the twelvemonth for the full lifespan of merchandise lines including the iPod, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. The past Mac that Apple released is the M2 MacBook Air, which launched connected July 15, 2022. Depending connected however agelong Apple waits to motorboat its adjacent Mac, the clip pursuing the motorboat of the ‌MacBook Air‌ could beryllium among the longest periods with nary caller Mac models astatine all.

It was initially rumored that caller 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro models would look earlier the extremity of 2022, a clip framework seemingly supported by some wide accumulation forecasts. It is present astir definite that these devices person been substantially postponed. The MacBook Pro hold archetypal became evident erstwhile Korean blogger "yeux1122" cited a proviso concatenation root saying that the updated 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models volition not motorboat until astir March 2023. The representation became clearer erstwhile Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said successful October that the adjacent question of Mac releases volition present instrumentality spot in the archetypal 4th of 2023, including updated versions of the MacBook Pro, Mac mini, and ‌Mac Pro‌. Overall, this constitutes a hold of up to six months implicit what was primitively expected for the next-generation MacBook Pro models.

The ‌Mac Pro‌ is different instrumentality that was erstwhile powerfully believed to motorboat earlier the extremity of 2022, not slightest due to the fact that this would person aligned to Apple's privation to modulation the full Mac lineup to Apple silicon wrong 2 years. At its "Peek Performance" lawsuit past year, Apple adjacent straight teased the motorboat of the Apple silicon Mac Pro, saying "that's for different day." While Apple reportedly had an M1-variant of the Mac Pro acceptable to launch earlier successful 2022, the institution appears to beryllium waiting for an adjacent bigger show and ratio leap this year. Most recently, Gurman said that Apple had apt scrapped plans for an "‌M2‌ Extreme" chip, but ‌M2‌ Ultra configurations of the caller ‌Mac Pro‌ inactive look to beryllium connected way for motorboat successful 2023.