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Mac Pro with Apple Silicon in the last quarter of this year
14″ M2 MacBook Pro to replace the 13″ model
My Twitter chat with Vadim from Max Tech
TSMC’s price rise, what will it mean for iPhone?
Next gen Pro chips this year?
AirPods Max 2 – what to expect
External Display expectations
And why iPad Pro FaceID is just better.
DylanDKT has tweeted that Apple Silicon’s transition will wrap up with the Mac Pro. Okay, I don’t think that’s too much of a shock, but Dylan also mentions that the Apple Silicon Mac Pro is going to be using an evolution of the M1 platform, not M2.
That makes complete sense to me, even though I believe M2 will be out in the spring, there’s nothing to say that Apple wouldn’t pursue higher performance chips with older names.
There’s been a lot of push back when I’ve suggested this as the Mac Pro “should” have the fastest single core performance given the price, but that wouldn’t line up with what Apple did under intel – the single core performance in all of the Xeon Mac Pros is beaten by a couple of iMacs and even the 2020 13″ MacBook Pro. The types of task that these machines are asked to provide are typically more reliant on multithreaded workflows, and with up to 40 CPU cores and 128 GPU cores, that is stuff these can handily take care of.
My expectation is that we still see the Mac Pro at WWDC in June, but with it shipping later in the year.
Dylan also mentioned that Apple will replace the 13″ MacBook Pro with a 14″ display, which I’d also suggested in the previous months. There seems to be some confusion as to why, but I think this makes total sense. Lets be honest, there wasn’t enough differentiation between the M1 MacBook Air and the M1 MacBook Pro that will be replaced with this new device. They had the same connectivity, the same display (close as makes no difference, one was a little brighter), the same webcam, the same keyboard and the same trackpad. The MacBook Pro did get a Touch Bar, longer battery and a noisier cooling system though.
Enter the M2 and the 14″ chassis however and it will have a bigger, much better display, a better webcam, better connectivity, most likely an even better battery and that new design. I think it could be $200 more, starting at 1499, and that seems pretty reasonable. Let me know your thoughts.
And in terms of when stuff is coming, I had a really fun discussion with Vadim from Max Tech yesterday on Twitter – I mentioned that I’m hoping for the M2 Pro in the spring, with M2 Pro and Max in the Autumn.
He’s thinking M2 not until the fall, with M2 Pro & Max in 2023.
Given that we’ve had the past 2 iterations of iPad Pro in the spring of 2020 and 2021, I think M2 is likely to be here for the spring, but Vadim makes a good point about how crowded the spring is – saying its hard to believe they’ll release a high end Mac mini, high end iMac, M2 Air and M2 Pro in the spring along with the iPad Air and iPhone SE 5G.
Now the iPhone SE and iPad Air could easily both be press releases, no new designs and both just picking up hand me down features – no real innovations here. That being said they’re both broader appeal products than the new Macs in all likelyhood, and any iPhone release will bring more attention to the event in general.
But then Apple can reveal M2, in a MacBook Pro, MacBook Air and Mac mini, comparing the M2 with M1 Max by pushing the battery life improvements. That gives Apple a great way to compare and contrast showing why people would want the M2 and who the M1 Pro and Max is for. Just before Tim introduces One More Thing, and out of the darkness appears another iMac, this time in Jet Black (better than space grey) and inside is the first dual M1 Max chip – 20 Cores of CPU and 64 core GPU. Maybe 32″, but more likely 27. Nice.
James Apple
Do buy this iPhone 14 Pro series of smartphones having a USB-C cable because of regulation from the EU & now the US & how TSMC will be raising their prices on the A16 chipset?
Randomness r
#icaveanswers will we get a m2 pro and pro max MacBooks this year in q4?
Randomness r
#icaveanswers what are apples plans for AirPods max 2? I absolutely love my pair of AirPods max I didn’t at first but they really do grow on you 🙂
Randomness r
#icaveanawers what kind of external displays can we expect from apple and when are they coming spring or fall thanks mate
Team Kinetix
#iCaveAnswers Why can my iPad Pro recognise my face for faceID in portrait and landscape orientation, but the iPhone can only recognise my face in portrait orientation?
This seems like it could be a relatively simple software fix? Or does the iPad Pro have a bigger and more complicated faceID array?
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