More Apple Silicon MacBooks are coming — but it’s a long wait

More than Apple Silicon MacBooks are coming — but it's a long wait

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The adjacent generation of Apple Silicon-wielding MacBooks won't arrive until the second one-half of 2021, skipping Apple's usual Mac refresh window in jump.

This comes from Ming-Chi Kuo, writing in a enquiry annotation seen past MacRumors, who claims nosotros can await 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros in Q2/Q3. So mayhap this new rumor means nosotros're nearly likely to meet the new Apple laptops with upgraded M-series chips in Fall 2021.

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These models will apparently characteristic a new design, and based on previous claims by Kuo, could see an upgrade of the 16-inch MacBook Pro in 2019, with a much-rumored 14-inch MacBook Pro coming to potentially supersede the xiii-inch model.

What chip these new MacBooks volition utilise isn't articulate. Nosotros'd imagine that Apple will accept worked on an upgrade to the M1 chip it recently debuted, come the second half of 2021. But such an upgrade may just exist a pocket-sized one, as Apple scrap upgrades tend to be iterative rather than huge steps up in functioning. Therefore we could perhaps see the scrap named the M1X (like to how Apple names the upgraded A-serial chips in the iPad line), if non merely the M2.

The new MacBook Air M1 and 13-inch MacBook Pro M1 accept been warmly received for their power and battery life, as well as their effective support for apps still designed to run on the Intel chips Apple used to use. Our just criticisms in our MacBook Air review were its old, large bezel blueprint and just a pair of Thunderbolt three ports. Both of these could easily be addressed by a new pattern, as Kuo seems to advise.

In addition to the MacBook Pros, we can also expect a new Apple tree Silicon edition of the larger, 24-inch iMac all-in-ane PC, also as a new smaller version of the Mac Pro belfry PC. Exterior of the Mac line of products, Kuo is besides claiming late 2021 will be when we meet a new cheaper iPad, assumedly a basic iPad or iPad Mini, and the AirPods 3.

Kuo too mentions the Apple tree Watch achieving sales success thanks to "innovative wellness direction functions and improved class factor design." This sounds similar it could be referring to the Apple Watch six's replacement, likely the Apple tree Spotter 7. However it's also possible that Kuo is talking near the Serial six'due south new case colors and blood oxygen monitoring features, rather than ideas the next Apple tree Sentry will focus on.

We've got some 12 months or so before to go nosotros run into if these rumors and Kuo's predictions comport fruit. But 2021 could exist an interesting time for Apple tree'southward Mac lineup.

Richard is a Tom'south Guide staff writer based in London, covering news, reviews and how-tos for phones, gaming, audio and whatsoever else people need communication on. Following on from his MA in Magazine Journalism at the University of Sheffield, he'due south as well written for WIRED U.K., The Register and Creative Bloq. When not at work, he's likely thinking about how to mash the perfect loving cup of specialty coffee.