We started the year and we started it with a good wave of predictions from Mark Gurman. This weekend he told us that iOS 17 will bring few new things, and other products like the Apple Watch or the iPad too, for the simple reason that xrOS and extended reality, which will arrive this spring, get all the attention. And as if that were not enough, he had time to tell us about the renewal of the Mac Pro with Apple’s silicon and a little big surprise that will come with the MacBook Air of this 2023.
There is apparently little to say about the Mac Pro, since renewal should be internal only
New interior for one and exterior for the other
The truth is, we’ve been talking about a MacBook Air with a bigger screen for some time. The movement, in fact, we saw it with the appearance of the iPhone 14 Plus. An iPhone that takes advantage of the capabilities of the iPhone 14 while offering a larger size, but does not include the price or specifications of the iPhone 14 Pro Max. That’s exactly what Apple could do with the MacBook Air. What Gurman says, moreover, coincides with what the famous analyst Ross Young has already predicted.
So, while we would see a 15.5-inch MacBook Air in the first quarter of 2023, the equally rumored 12-inch MacBook disappears from predictions. According to Gurman, a smaller lap top is no longer in Apple’s plans. A laptop that, seeing the trend of devices offering ever larger screens, perhaps made less sense when allocating resources and working hours.
Returning to the Mac Pro 2023, Gurman says that the renewed model with Apple silicon chips will retain the design that it debuted in 2019. A modular design that will allow us to easily customize the specifications according to our needs. What cannot be extended, but will be RAM, as it is soldered and is part of the System on a Chip architecture of Apple silicon.
What we can customize will be SSD storage, for which we will have two slits as well as graphics, multimedia and network cards. With that and the M2 Ultra of this machine, we should be able to easily configure a computer exactly to our needs. And with that, too, we will close the transition to Apple silicon so that every Mac in the Apple catalog runs on its own silicon.
A transition that, although it went almost unnoticed due to the smoothness with which it took place, we all noticed it in terms of performance, power and autonomy. Exactly the goal of Apple’s silicon, which allows the Cupertino company work on your own hardware to standardize systems and get the most out of the software and the rest of the material.