One thing to look ahead to: As Apple prepares to launch 13-inch MacBook Professionals that includes its newest M2 processor, Bloomberg thinks upgrades to the opposite fashions are coming, probably this 12 months. They probably will not be elementary overhauls over the present design however ought to carry efficiency enhancements.
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman claims Apple is already engaged on new fashions of the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Professionals with the M2 SoC. Aside from the brand new processor, they need to be principally the identical as the present MacBook Professionals of that dimension, iterating on their M1 Professional and M1 Max CPUs with the M2 Professional and M2 Max.
In contrast with M1, benchmarks present the M2 attaining a modest 11 p.c enchancment in single-threaded efficiency, an 18 p.c improve in multi-threaded efficiency, and a powerful 43 p.c rise in graphics efficiency. The M2 Professional’s and M2 Max’s enhancements over their predecessors will weigh equally in the direction of graphics, which ought to assist customers with duties like video modifying.
The M2 MacBook Air is accessible now, and Apple will begin delivery a 13-inch MacBook Professional with an M2 chip on June 23, forward of schedule. Relying on the provision chain, the bigger variants may arrive in late 2022 or early 2023. That window aligns with predictions of enhanced M2 manufacturing ramping up late this 12 months.
Of Apple’s alleged 9 deliberate M2 Macs, 5 are nonetheless unaccounted for, probably desktop fashions similar to a Mac Professional that includes an M2 Extremely.