Rumors that the appearance of the M2-equipped MacBook Pro will be delayed after March 2023

The proprietary SoC `` M1 '' announced by Apple in November 2020 has high processing power while saving power, and shocked the technology industry. In June 2022, the upgraded version of the M1, ' M2 ,' was announced, and the MacBook Air equipped with the M2 was also announced on the same day. However, Mark Garman, who is famous for his accurate predictions of Apple products, announced a pessimistic prediction that ``the appearance of the MacBook Pro with M2 will be delayed until March 2023.''

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The flow of Apple's proprietary SoC-equipped machine announcement so far is like this. First, at the same time as the announcement of the M1 in November 2020, the “ MacBook Air ”, “ Mac mini ” and “ MacBook Pro ” equipped with the M1 were announced . Subsequently, in April 2021, the “ iMac ” and “ iPad Pro ” equipped with the M1 were announced .

After that, in October 2021, the “M1 Pro” and “M1 Max” with enhanced functions of the M1 will appear. At the same time as the announcement of M1 Pro and M1 Max, ' MacBook Pro ' equipped with both SoCs was also announced. In March 2022, the “ iPad Air ” equipped with the M1 will be released. On the same day, the “ M1 Ultra ”, which is a collection of two M1 Max, was also announced, and the stationary machine “ Mac Studio ” equipped with the M1 Ultra was also announced.

In June 2022, the M2, an upgraded version of the M1, and the MacBook Air equipped with the M2 were announced. According to Garman, Apple was aiming to announce the M2-equipped MacBook Pro by the fall of 2022. However, for some reason, there was a delay in the development of the M2-equipped MacBook Pro, and I expected that the possibility of it being announced in 2022 would be slim. Garman said that the M2-equipped MacBook Pro will be announced at the same time as the release of macOS 13.3 (macOS Ventura), ``macOS 13.3 is expected to be released between February 2023 and March 2022.'' Based on the product announcement cycle of , it is highly likely that a new product will be announced in March 2023.'

Garman also reports that 'Mac Pro with Apple's proprietary SoC is under development.' According to Garman, the new Mac Pro could have up to 48-core CPUs and 256GB of memory.

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