With talk of supply issues on the mini-LED MacBook Pro machines pushing significant availability of the laptops into early 2022, the allure of faster Apple Silicon MacBooks for developers, an intermediate step to the M1X, and the imminent WWDC 2021 creates an attractive proposition for Apple.Īssuming you want to go for a new MacBook Pro right now. After all apart from the addition of the M1 chip, last year’s Apple Silicon powered MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac mini machines were identical in design to the previous models. The latter is the talk of an uprated M1 processor presumptively called the M1X and featuring more cores for increased power and capability.Īpple is a traditionally conservative company, and taking an intermediate step to an M1X chip for the higher specced MacBooks would be in keeping with that. Over the last few years Apple has created two pools of MacBook Pro machines, a lower more affordable set, and a more powerful but more expensive set. In the case of the former, the current 16-inch MacBook Pro is only available as an x86 Intel model. So what would that leave for this week’s WWDC announcement? Assuming that there is an announcement (those runes again), there are two obvious gaps in the MacBook portfolio, and one piece of information that has yet to be announced. These will be the machines that ship with the mini-LED screens, and potentially the new chassis design. If that’s the case (and assuming Taniyama-Shimura) then the first significant update to the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro family will come in late October early November this year, twelve months after the M1 machines disrupted the laptop market. Now that Apple has the Mxx series of chips under its own control, I fully expect Apple to move to an annual cycle. That stood in opposition to the tick-tock rhythm of its own Axx processors for the iPhone and iPad, which were in step with the update and release cycle of the smartphone and tablet. With the x86 based Macs, Apple was always reliant on Intel’s production and developmental timescales. In fact, this feels much more like the Apple way. There would be nothing to stop Apple offering new MacBook Pros at WWDC built around the older existing designs, while preparing the way for a significant update one year after the launch of the Apple Silicon laptops. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File) ASSOCIATED PRESSĪs for the talk about Apple announcing new MacBook Pro laptops at the upcoming Worldwide Developer Conference… Reading the runes of Cook is never a precise art, it’s notable that the ‘late 2021’ Macs are all expected to come with the mini-LED technology in the screen this offers more vibrant colours, deeper blacks, and more efficient power usage. Higher-end models of Apple’s MacBook Pro now come with a narrow touch screen above the regular keyboard for quick access to common settings and tasks. computer shown in a demo room following the announcement of new products at Apple headquarters, in Cupertino, Calif. 27, 2016, file photo, a guest looks at the Touch Bar on a MacBook.
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