In keeping with a brand new leak, Apple has begun testing 4 new M2 chip variations in as many as 9 complete Mac computer systems. This tracks, as Apple already mentioned the M1 Extremely within the Mac Studio was the final of its present era of processors.
The report comes from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who has a stellar monitor report in terms of dependable leaks for Apple merchandise. Most just lately, he accurately predicted the merchandise that Apple introduced in its March 2022 {hardware} occasion.
Gurman says that the majority Mac traces are due for an improve this 12 months except for the very newly introduced Mac Studio. Particularly, he says that an M2-powered MacBook Air is within the works which contains a 10-core GPU and an entry-level MacBook Professional that will come full of the identical. This is sensible because it’s the identical technique Apple took when it introduced the primary M1 chip in each a Macbook Air and MacBook Professional.
Gurman says he has additionally seen proof that the 14- and 16-inch MacBook Execs, Mac mini, and Mac Professional are all being examined with the M2. Of observe for skilled creatives in fact are the Mac Professional and the MacBook Execs.
Though the 14- and 16-inch MacBook Execs had been simply refreshed final October, Gurman says Apple is already testing these fashions with new M2 Professional and M2 Max chips with 64GB of reminiscence. The M2 Max supposedly has 12 CPU cores and 38 graphics cores, a modest enhance from the ten CPU cores and 32 graphics cores discovered within the present era model. The Mac Professional is supposedly already being examined with the M2 model of the M1 Extremely, and given the period of time it took Apple to go from the baseline M1 all the best way to the M1 Extremely, it might be fairly some time earlier than that pc sees an official announcement.
On that observe, it’s unlikely that the higher-end variations of any of those computer systems are coming till the autumn. Apple will almost certainly begin with a baseline M2 improve for Macbook Air, baseline MacBook Professional, and Mac mini earlier than any of the extra critical {hardware} involves market.
