When Apple told us about Apple’s switch from Intel to silicon gave a two-year deadline. This happened during WWDC 2020, which means that next June, during WWDC22, we should see the end of the transition. A transition which, according to Mark Gurman, will end with the arrival of a new Mac Pro.
A transition made in record time
One would expect the dates may have changed due to the health situation, but according to Mark Gurman in his latest newsletter, Apple will complete the transition on time. It will also do it for any big one, because we are waiting for a new Mac Pro, a more powerful Mac mini and an iMac Pro, all with Apple silicon inside.
“The company has a slew of new professional Macs in development based on the M1 Pro and M1 Max chips already inside the MacBook Pro. This includes a smaller Mac Pro with up to 40 processor cores and 128 graphics cores, a new Mac mini, and a big-screen iMac Pro. I would expect Apple to complete its transition to its own silicon from Intel chips in June, during WWDC 2022. “
If correct, these predictions tell us that we have a very interesting first half ahead of us. In addition to Apple’s switch to silicon from the Mac Pro and the iMac Pro, which are currently the only Macs with Intel in the catalog, there is also talk of a new Mac mini as well as a completely redesigned MacBook Air. A redesign which, according to Gurman himself will be “the largest in the history of the product”.
And all this without counting that, as we know, we will see thea new family of M2 chips, which, while not going to represent a huge change in terms of horsepower, they will give us, according to our calculations, an improvement of up to 20% in their performance.
“From what I’m hearing, the M2 will be a slightly faster version of the M1 chip starting in late 2020. I would expect the same overall number of processor cores, four high performance cores and four energy efficient cores,” but a GPU That probably means nine or 10 GPU cores, an upgrade from the current seven or eight graphics core options on the M1. I would view the move from M1 to M2 as a similar jump to what Apple does every year on the M1. ‘iPhone. ” .
It’s clear that Apple’s experience in previous transitions has allowed them to accomplish this in record time and in a way that is almost completely invisible to less tech-conscious users. Many people have walked into the Apple Store asking for the new MacBook Pro, for example, not realizing that in just two years, Apple has changed the rules of the game for its computers.
