Following a rumor Apple has a product announcement planned for tomorrowand a discovery Unreleased MacBook Pro in Canadian regulatory databaseit looks like new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models may finally be around the corner.
Ahead of the potential launch, we’ve recapped everything we’ve heard so far about the next-generation 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro.
M2 Pro and M2 Max chips
The next MacBook Pro models are expected to have a major new feature M2 Pro and M2 Max chips for faster performance. BloombergMark Gurman said these chips will offer only “marginal” performance improvements over the M1 Pro and M1 Max chips in existing models. leaked criteria proposed last year.
Wi-Fi 6E
Wireless frequency bands listed in Canadian regulatory filings indicate that the new MacBook Pro It will support Wi-Fi 6E, extends Wi-Fi to the 6GHz band for more bandwidth, faster speeds and less latency. The current 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro support standard Wi-Fi 6, limited to the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands.
RAM is faster
There are rumors that the new MacBook Pro models will be equipped with “.very high bandwidth, high speed RAM,” but details are unclear. On a purely speculative basis, the new models could be equipped with Samsung’s latest LPDDR5X RAM for up to 20% lower power consumption and up to 33% increased memory bandwidth.
No Design Changes
Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo and Gurman both said that there will be no external design changes in the new MacBook Pro models and several other key features.
Apple will introduce more ports like HDMI and MagSafe in October 2021, a notch at the top of the screen, an all-black keyboard area, and more. This wouldn’t be too surprising since it completely redesigned the high-end MacBook Pros with . MacBooks often go several generations between major hardware changes, so a spec bump in 2023 is a reasonable expectation.
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