Apple’s M1 Mac prices haven’t fluctuated much from their Intel predecessors, so the new Mac Pro will almost certainly be a super-high-end machine for professionals. The current Mac Pro starts at $5,999/£5,499 and we assume the Apple silicon-based Mac Pro will stick with that general price point. The other big question is how much will the new Mac Pro cost. It would be no big surprise if Apple misses the deadline with the Mac Pro, especially as the industry is encountering component shortages and other delays. It’s no real surprise that the wait for Macs like the Mac Pro to start to use Apple Silicon would be so long: Apple’s high-end desktops involve considerably complex development with Apple encountering more challenges. 2023: Mac Pro and iMac Pro.- 郭明錤 (Ming-Chi Kuo) March 6, 2022 2022: More powerful Mac mini and more affordable external display (27-inch without mini-LED).Ģ. A more capacious SSD will cost you +$400 / £200 for 1TB or +$800 / £600 for 2TB.Predictions for Apple's new desktop products:ġ. Various upgraded configurations will be available – you'll have to pay an extra $200 / £200 to boost RAM (unified memory) up to 16GB, or $400 / £400 to take it to 24GB. The other base option is M2 with 10-core GPU, 8GB RAM and 512GB SSD at $1,499 / £1,549. The base configurations of the MacBook Air 2022 start with the M2 with 8-core GPU, 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD at $1,199 / £1,249 – closely comparable to the previous generation on release. The laptop will be able to fast-charge with a 67W USB-C adapter. The base model of the MacBook Air 2022 will ship with a 30W USB-C power adapter, with the higher-end 10-core GPU configuration coming with a 35W Dual USB-C Port Compact Power Adapter. There's also a 3.5mm headphone jack with support for high-impedance headphones.Īs for battery life, Apple says the 52.6-watt-hour lithium-polymer battery should give us 18 hours of video playback.
The other ports are two Thunderbolt 3/USB-C for transfer speeds of up to 40Gb/s. This is a MagSafe 3 charging port the same as that on the MacBook Pro 14 and 16. True Tone should allow the display to adapt to ambient lighting brightness and temperature using the laptop's sensor.Ī fan-made render of the upcoming MacBook Air 2022 (Image credit: Apple) We get a 2560 x 1664 resolution with 224 pixels per inch and support for P3 Wide colour and 1 billion colours. The new chip also adds in a new media engine and a powerful ProRes video engine for hardware-accelerated encode and decode, which means the laptops should be able to play back more streams of 4K and 8K video than before.Īs for the display, as well as being slightly larger, it's also slightly brighter – up to 500 nits from 400.
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This upgrade might make the new MacBook Air more of a value alternative to the MacBook Pro. The last MacBook Air was already a great performer but could buckle under demands for heavy video editing or 3D rendering. The M2 promises 100GB/s of unified memory bandwidth and up to 24GB of fast unified memory, which means it should be able to handle even larger and more complex workloads with ease. It will also benefit from Apple’s next-generation GPU, which now has up to 10 cores - two more than M1 (Cupertino's finest is now rumoured to be working on an Apple M3 chip, presumably for the next generation of the MacBook Air). This promises improved performance on the M1, with a next-generation 8-core CPU offering advancements in both performance and efficiency cores. The MacBook Air 2022 will ship with the same new M2 chip as the 2022 MacBook Pro 13. The MacBook Air 2022 from above (Image credit: Apple)