The new 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro could be here soon. We look at what might be in store for the new M2 Pro and M2 Max MacBook Pro, when they’ll launch and the specs and features.
The 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro with Apple’s M1 Pro and M1 Max chips only arrived in October 2021, but the the successor may not be that far off. Despite there being an 18-month wait between the arrival of the M1 MacBook Air and M1 MacBook Pro and their M2 replacements, the M2 Pro and M2 Max MacBook Pro models are rumored to arrive as soon as this fall. Here’s everything you need to know about the upcoming release.
A fall release prediction for the 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro came via a July 2022 Power On newsletter from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in which he indicated that Apple is already preparing the next round of Apple silicon updates. Gurman wrote that the 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro will be getting M2 Pro and M2 Max chip upgrades by the end of this year, although he cautions that the update could be delayed until early 2023 due to “continued supply-chain challenges.”
A fall release would occur at Apple’s annual Mac event in October or November.
2022 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro: Price
The current models are priced as follows. While there are some big price leaps between the 8-core and 10-core CPU modes that many will be hoping Apple will close up, we don’t anticipate any major changes—although we could see some price rises in some parts of the world in line with inflation. Apple raised the price of the entry-level MacBook Air by $200 or 20 percent with the M2 redesign.
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