Apple has some new Macs on the horizon, however we received’t see these units this 12 months sadly – the recent {hardware} supposedly received’t flip up till early 2023.

That is the newest from well-known leaker Mark Gurman, who made the prediction in his e-newsletter as printed by Bloomberg (opens in new tab).

The speculation is – keep sceptical as ever, and word that Gurman solely believes that is the possible end result of close to future Apple launches – that revamped Macs will come within the first quarter of 2023, and that can embrace MacBook Professional 14-inch and 16-inch laptops packing M2 Professional and M2 Max chips.

That {hardware} will arrive alongside macOS Ventura 13.3 (and iOS 16.3), Gurman asserts, software program that’ll probably debut in February or March 2023. With the {hardware}, nevertheless, a February launch appears unlikely – Apple typically waits till the spring, so the date for the brand new MacBook Execs (and no matter else is coming) to pencil in to your diary is March 2023.

Talking of what else is perhaps in Apple’s PC product pipeline, as has lengthy been rumored, Apple is testing a Mac mini with the M2 chip, and likewise an M2 Professional model.

Gurman reckons the M2 Max will push to 12-cores (from 10 with the M1 Max) and complement that with 38-cores for the built-in GPU (up from 32-cores).

Evaluation: Clear indicators that MacBook launch has been pushed again

Issues are altering quick within the Mac rumor panorama, as a result of as you might recall, simply two weeks again, Gurman believed that the MacBook Execs with the M2 Professional and M2 Max would almost definitely arrive in November. However to be truthful to the leaker, from the get-go when he first aired hypothesis round these refreshed MacBook Execs, he gave a timeframe of the tip of 2022 to early 2023 for launch – and March (simply) qualifies for the latter.

Apparently Apple’s plan was to debut the MacBook Professional fashions earlier than 2022 was out, however just lately, we’ve seen some fairly clear indicators that this isn’t taking place, as Gurman outlines in his e-newsletter.

Particularly CEO Tim Cook dinner telling us that Apple’s product line is ‘set’ for the vacation season, that means there’ll be no new additions. Moreover, CFO Luca Maestri has additionally made it identified that Apple is anticipating much less income development for the vacation quarter – with Mac income dropping as a consequence of not having a brand new MacBook (whereas we did get a brand new MacBook Professional final 12 months at this level).

So there you might have it. This time round, no point out was fabricated from what to anticipate with these new M2-toting MacBook Professional 14-inch and 16-inch portables, so we will assume nothing has modified on that entrance. Earlier predictions have pointed to there being not quite a lot of distinction with the next-gen machines, the principle improve being that change of SoC from M1 to M2 variants.

With the Mac mini, the working concept is that there’ll be a base mannequin with M2 chip, and one with the M2 Professional which can sit above that entry-level PC, however beneath the Mac Studio. That three-pronged method is sensible in successfully giving consumers a trio of choices on the low, mid-range and higher-end of the spectrum.

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