Rumors a few weeks ago weren’t kidding when they said Apple was going to be doing one of its biggest rollouts of new stuff around the fall. Marg Gurman disclosed on Bloomberg that the company is test “at least” nine new Macs in their labs. And that’s a lot of computers.
All of these Macs would carry one of four models of M2 chip, and would represent the second wave of Intel’s transition to Apple Silicon. Not all of these computers may see the light of day (depending on when this testing phase ends), but those that pass the test will hit stores “in the next few months.” The good news is that this testing phase is now in its final stages, with engineers trying to install third-party apps on the machines to see how they react.
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What computers are these? Well, Gurman mentions the MacBook Air with M2 chip and a new design (model J413), the Mac mini (models J473 and J474), the entry-level MacBook Pro (model J493) and also the high-end 14-inch and 16 -inch (J414 and J416 models) and even a Mac Pro (J180 model).
There’s even a Mac mini with an M1 Pro chip that could be the last version of this generation of chips, and a hypothetical model with Mac M1 chip would have been developed but questioned because it would be too similar to the current Mac Studio input model.
The computers that go unnoticed in this rumor are the 24-inch iMac and this supposed model with a larger panel, as well as the Mac Studio which should also sooner or later inherit the professional ranges of M2 chips.
On the chips themselves, Gurman details them with these specs:
- An M2 chip with 8 CPU cores and 10 GPU cores.
- An M2 Pro chip with an undisclosed number of cores in its CPU and GPU.
- A Mac M2 chip with 12 CPU cores and 38 GPU cores, plus 64 GB of RAM.
- An M2 Ultra which would be the “successor” of the M1 Ultra and which would be in the Mac Pro.
If these nine (or more) Macs are actually to appear and launch in the rest of the year, we could be facing the most intense wave of launches in the company’s history. We will keep a detailed record of any traces that may be published on this subject.
