If you've been holding off on shelling out for a new MacBook Pro out of FOMO or indecision, Apple may soon hold the answers you've been waiting for. Here's how you can buy Apple's new MacBook Pros. The new laptop also ditches the Touch Bar.
25: At Apple's fourth product launch event of 2021, the company unveiled Apple Music's "Voice" plan, new HomePod Mini colors, the AirPods 3, an upgraded MacBook Pro M1 16-inch and 14-inch model with MagSafe charging, HDMI ports and updated cameras. Features like a mini-LED display may be too much to hope for, it certainly seems likely that Apple would bring the new keyboard design - sans Touch Bar - and of course the more generous collection of ports, and hopefully even the better FaceTime camera.Two things we expect to disappear this go-round: the 13-inch MacBook Pro and the Touch Bar.
This time around, however, adopting improvements from the premium 14-inch MacBook Pro could help set the entry-level model apart.
To be clear, there were some differences, such as the Touch Bar, improved microphones, and better battery life, but when it came to performance, the only real advantage was that the Pro model included a fan, allowing it to handle heavier workloads for longer periods of time. Last year, the M1-powered MacBook Pro actually offered very little to recommend it over the MacBook Air.
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So, it wouldn’t be at all surprising for Apple to move ahead with a more affordable M2-powered MacBook Pro, and if it adopts some of the other important enhancements from the current 14-inch MacBook Pro, it would be a much more significant upgrade from the MacBook Air than it has been in recent years. In fact, the only real upgrade for that model was the improved keyboard. It also only came with two Thunderbolt ports, 128 GB of SSD storage, and 8 GB of memory - a stark contrast from the next model up, which started with a 2.4 GHz quad-core Core i5 CPU.Įven after Apple refreshed its MacBook Pro lineup in early 2020, adding 10th-gen Intel CPUs to the more premium models, the entry-level MacBook Pro remained saddled with a two-year-old 8th-gen CPU. While the designations of Apple Silicon makes this more obvious, it’s really in line with where this MacBook Pro was positioned in the Intel days as well.įor example, the last Intel version of the low-end 13-inch MacBook Pro only featured a 1.4 GHz 8th-gen Intel Core i5 CPU in the standard configuration, which could only be upgraded to a 1.7 GHz Core i7. Naturally, this means Apple’s M2 chip, rather than an M2 Pro or M2 Max, which will still be reserved for the more premium models. Alongside this release time frame, we will receive the redesigned M2 MacBook (Air).- Dylan January 17, 2022 It will receive a slight price increase over the previous generation. The currently available M1 MacBook Pro 13 will be replaced with a MacBook Pro 14 with an M2 chip in the 2H of 2022. A new rumour suggests that it’s slated to adopt the design of the 14-inch MacBook Pro, while featuring specs that are a direct upgrade from the current 13-inch model. It may not be time to count the lowest-end MacBook Pro out just yet, however, as a new rumour suggests that Apple will indeed keep one in the family. It’s been like the weird step-brother in the family all along, and many folks have been expecting it to ride off into the sunset for years. It’s probably even more telling that for the past few years, this lower-end MacBook Pro seemed to get refreshed alongside the MacBook Air, rather than its more expensive MacBook Pro siblings. It was reserved for the higher-end 13-inch MacBook Pro configurations, conspicuously omitted from the 13-inch MacBook Pro until suddenly showing up in a 2019 refresh alongside a new MacBook Air with a True Tone display. No matter what you may think of the Touch Bar, it’s clear that Apple saw it as a premium MacBook feature when it debuted in 2016. To be fair, Apple’s lowest-tier 13-inch MacBook Pro has always been an odd duck in the lineup. This would leave Apple’s 13-inch MacBook Pro even further out in the cold, and while some have speculated that Apple may simply put that one out to pasture, there’s likely still room for an entry-level M1/M2-only MacBook Pro that sits somewhere below the more powerful (and expensive) M1/M2 Pro-equipped models.
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