2022 MacBook Pro: Release date, specs, rumors | Turbo Tech

The 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Professional may quickly be transport with new M2 Professional and M2 Max chips. There was an 18-month wait between the arrival of the M1 MacBook Air and M1 MacBook Professional and their M2 replacements, however regardless of it solely a 12 months for the reason that M1 Professional and M1 Max fashions launched, their successors will not be that far off. Right here’s all the things you might want to know in regards to the upcoming launch.

2022 14- and 16-inch MacBook Professional: Launch date

A fall launch prediction for the 14- and 16-inch MacBook Professional got here through a July 2022 Energy On e-newsletter from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman wherein he indicated that Apple is already making ready the subsequent spherical of Apple silicon updates. Gurman wrote that the 14- and 16-inch MacBook Professional will probably be getting M2 Professional and M2 Max chip upgrades by the tip of this 12 months, though he cautions that the replace may very well be delayed till early 2023 resulting from “continued supply-chain challenges.”

Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo then tweeted in August that the brand new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Professional will enter manufacturing within the fourth quarter, which tallies with a fall launch.

It could be regular apply for Apple to carry a Mac occasion in October or November, so there’s some expectation that the MacBook Professional replace may arrive (alongside new Mac mini) at an Apple occasion in October, or no less than through an October press launch.

With macOS Ventura anticipated by the tip of October it appears to be like seemingly that the brand new product launches would tie in with the arrival of that Mac working system replace.

Nevertheless, in an October 16 e-newsletter Gurman reveals that he doesn’t anticipate a MacBook Professional launch within the week of 17 October (alongside new iPad Professional fashions). He writes that “Whereas the brand new MacBook Professionals are on observe to launch within the close to future, I wouldn’t anticipate them to be launched alongside the iPad Professional”, including that Apple “has traditionally launched new Macs in November”. So on that foundation we are able to assume that Gurman now expects a November launch.

2022 14- and 16-inch MacBook Professional: Value

The present fashions are priced as follows. Whereas there are some massive worth leaps between the 8-core and 10-core CPU modes that many will probably be hoping Apple will shut up, we don’t anticipate any main modifications within the U.S.—though we may see some worth rises in some elements of the world in step with inflation. Apple raised the worth of the entry-level MacBook Air by $200 or 20 % with the M2 redesign.

• 14-inch MacBook Professional, M1 Professional, 8-Core CPU, 14-Core GPU, 16GB Unified Reminiscence, 512GB SSD, $1,999/£1,899
• 14-inch MacBook Professional, M1 Professional, 10-Core CPU, 16-Core GPU, 16GB Unified Reminiscence, 1TB SSD, $2,499/£2,399
• 16-inch MacBook Professional, M1 Professional, 10-Core CPU, 16-Core GPU, 16GB Unified Reminiscence, 512GB SSD, $2,499/£2,399
• 16-inch MacBook Professional, M1 Professional, 10-Core CPU, 16-Core GPU, 16GB Unified Reminiscence, 1TB SSD, $2,699/$2,599
• 16-inch MacBook Professional, M1 Max, 10-Core CPU, 32-Core GPU, 32GB Unified Reminiscence, 1TB SSD, $3,499/£3,299

Learn: 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Professional: Purchase now or wait?

2022 14- and 16-inch MacBook Professional: Design

In case you had been hoping that Apple would change something in regards to the design of those two bigger MacBook Professional fashions be ready to be dissatisfied. The corporate made some large modifications in 2021, with the brand new 14- and 16-inch dimension shows and their ProMotion expertise, together with the elimination of the Contact Bar and the addition of the notch (all of which serve to distinguish from the 13-inch MacBook Professional). Gurman has signifies that the MacBook Professional is predicted to “keep roughly the identical” on the surface.

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2022 14- and 16-inch MacBook Professional: Specs

Whereas the surface of the MacBook Professional will look the identical, the within will probably be totally different.

Based mostly on the M2, and the M1-variants that Apple launched in 2021, we estimate that the M2 Professional and M2 Max chips will provide the next:

• M2 Professional: as much as 10-core CPU, as much as 20-core GPU, as much as 48GB RAM
• M2 Max: as much as 10-core CPU, 40-core GPU, as much as 96GB RAM

CPU

We’d see much more CPU cores than predicted above – Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman stories that his sources point out that the M2 Max could have 12 CPU cores.

Two further CPU cores should not the one change that would spell a quicker CPU. There had been recommendations that Apple would begin utilizing the brand new 3nm course of for the M3 chips once they arrive, most likely in 2023, however some stories recommended that this new course of may very well be used for the M2 Professional and different variants.

The 3nm course of ought to enable even increased transistor density amongst different issues. In response to DigiTimes in June 2022, Apple has “booked TSMC capability for its upcoming 3nm M3 and M2 Professional processors” and TSMC will probably be beginning quantity manufacturing of 3nm chips within the second half of 2022.

YouTube channel Max Tech’s Vadim Yuryev additionally indicated that the M2 Professional will probably be 3nm.

Nevertheless, as per Ming-Chi Kuo’s August tweet (above): “Given TSMC’s steerage that the 3nm will contribute income beginning in 1H23, processors of 14″ and 16″ MacBook Professional fashions should still undertake the 5nm superior node.”

If the M2 Professional, Max and Extremely chips are constructed utilizing this 3nm course of the hole between the M2 and these different variants will probably be greater than ever and the brand new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Professional, Mac Studio, high-end Mac mini, and Mac Professional may provide even greater pace boosts than these seen with the M2 in comparison with the M1.

If Apple is adopting this new course of for the M2 Professional and past it could be unlikely that it’s going to arrive earlier than spring 2023. Nevertheless, Gurman thinks we must wait till late 2023 or 2024 earlier than we see the 3nm course of arrive with the M3 chips.

GPU

Gurman additionally suggests a most of 38 GPU cores, six greater than the M1 Max provided. As with the M2 chip, the M2 Professional and M2 Max will focus “on the graphics facet,” in accordance with Gurman. Within the case of the M2 within the MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Professional, Apple delivered a graphics enhance from 8- to 10-cores. For the M2 Professional and M2 Max this might translate to a transfer from 14 cores and 16 cores to 18 cores and 20 cores for the M2 Professional and 24 cores and 32 cores to 30 cores and 38 cores for the M2 Max.

RAM

It’s seemingly that the brand new MacBook Professional fashions may even provide extra RAM. Apple upped the RAM within the M2 MacBooks from a most of 16GB within the M1 to 24GB within the M2. The same enhance may theoretically imply we see as much as 48GB RAM within the Professional and 96GB RAM within the Max.