After a flurry of Apple releases that noticed a brand new Apple TV 4K, M2 iPad Professionals, Tenth-gen iPad, iOS 16.1 and macOS Ventura within the house of every week, we have been anticipating new Macs to reach any day now. Now it seems to be like we would want to attend lots longer.
In keeping with Mark Gurman of Bloomberg, Apple’s subsequent spherical of Macs now received’t launch till 2023, seemingly at a March occasion. He experiences that Apple is “aiming to introduce the upgraded fashions—together with M2-based variations of the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Professionals—within the first quarter of calendar 2023.”
Apple has used its spring occasion to launch new Macs in recent times—final March noticed the introduction of the Mac Studio, and the earlier April introduced the 24-inch iMac. Nevertheless, if no new Macs arrive in November, it will be the primary Mac-less fall since 2017:
- 2021: 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Professional (M1 Professional/Max)
- 2020: MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Professional, Mac mini (M1)
- 2019: 16-inch MacBook Professional (Intel)
- 2018: MacBook Air, Mac mini (Intel)
Gurman says the brand new Macs will probably be launched alongside the launch of macOS Ventura 13.3. Apple solely simply launched the primary beta of macOS Ventura 13.1 final week, which we assumed would debut on the brand new Macs. However whereas that launch will seemingly arrive in November with Apple’s new Freeform app, Gurman doesn’t suppose new Macs will accompany it.
Apple reported a document $11.5 billion in Mac gross sales throughout its fiscal fourth quarter, but it surely warned that year-over-year progress seemingly wouldn’t be as excessive for the Mac within the all-important vacation quarter.
Throughout its fourth-quarter convention name, Tim Prepare dinner stated Apple was “strategy[ing] the vacation season with our product lineup set,” which may imply that it’s performed releasing new merchandise. Nevertheless, because the rumored merchandise are little greater than M2 updates to the 14- and 16-inch MacBook Professional and the Mac mini, Prepare dinner may be referring to the precise lineup.
At any price, we’ll be retaining our eyes peeled over the subsequent few Tuesdays simply in case.
