Originally slated to get this fall, Apple has wrapped up its merchandise announcements for 2022, which means nary caller MacBook Pros until adjacent year.
Despite announcing caller Macs earlier this year, Apple was expected to motorboat much models this fall, but that volition nary longer happen. Apple has launched caller models for astir each of its merchandise lineup successful 2022, prevention for a fewer devices. Among those that didn't get caller iterations is the HomePod line. However, it has been reported that a caller HomePod speaker is successful development.
The upcoming astute talker volition beryllium a full-sized exemplary similar the now-discontinued first-generation HomePod with akin audio performance. It volition beryllium powered by the Apple S8, the aforesaid chipset wrong the Apple Watch Series 8 and Watch SE 2. It is besides reported to apt person an ultra-wideband spot similar the HomePod Mini. Besides the HomePod, Apple is besides expected to motorboat its archetypal augmented reality/virtual world headset successful 2023.
The caller MacBooks were reportedly expected to motorboat this fall, but caller accusation says they person present been postponed to aboriginal 2023. According to the latest variation of Mark Gurman's newsletter, Apple's CEO said astatine the company's quarterly net that the merchandise enactment is "set" for this vacation play which means nary caller products are planned for release. In addition, the company's main fiscal officer, Luca Maestri, besides disclosed that the institution would spot a driblet successful gross maturation for the vacation 4th compared to the aforesaid play successful 2021. This is said to beryllium partially due to the fact that nary caller MacBooks volition beryllium disposable this quarter.
A New Mac Mini Is Coming Too
The expected Macs see caller 14-inch and 16-inch MacBooks that caller Apple M2 chips volition power. The 2021 models launched with Apple M1 Pro and M1 Max chipsets, truthful these caller models volition travel with the yet-to-be-announced M2 Pro and M2 Max chipsets. Testing and improvement of the caller laptops are reportedly successful afloat swing. However, prevention for the latest chipsets, the caller MacBook Pro models volition not person a antithetic plan from the existent models.
In summation to the caller MacBooks, Apple is besides processing a caller Mac Mini that volition diagnostic the caller M2 chip. Apple is reportedly investigating the instrumentality with the aforesaid M2 spot arsenic the 13-inch MacBook Air, arsenic good arsenic different mentation with the M2 Pro chipset. In addition, the archetypal Mac Pro with an Apple Silicon spot is besides successful development, becoming the past of the Macs to power to an Apple chipset.
When it launches, Mark Gurman says it is expected to beryllium disposable successful 24 and 48 CPU halfway options, 76 and 152 GPU halfway options and up to 256GB of memory. The root besides mentions that Apple intends to merchandise the caller Macs to correspond with the release of macOS Ventura 13.3. The motorboat lawsuit for the caller Macs is expected to hap successful the archetypal 4th of 2023, with the day apt to beryllium successful March, which is erstwhile Apple usually holds its archetypal motorboat lawsuit of the year.
Source: Mark Gurman/Bloomberg