Apple’s plans to complete its two-year Apple Silicon transition will still be on time, a report claims, with 2022 Mac launches expected to include an updated MacBook Air and a new Mac Pro.
On launching Apple Silicon, Apple advised it was on a tight two-year schedule to transition away from Intel processors to chips of its own designs. Given the first M1 Macs landed in November 2020, Apple has until November 2022 to stay on target.
In Sunday’s “Power On” newsletter for Bloomberg, Mark Gurman believes Apple will “barely hit its two-year timeline” for Apple Silicon. While the time may be fairly tight, it also appears that Apple is preparing to complete some of the trickier and higher-performance launches towards the end of the period.
According to Gurman, “M1X” Macs are on the way in the “coming months,” possibly coinciding with Apple’s typical fall announcements. The rumored updated Mac mini will apparently arrive “soon after that.”
However, the main launch towards the end could be a new Mac Pro.
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