Apple Announces 13-Inch MacBook Pro With M2 Chip Available to Order Worldwide Starting June 17

[MacRumors]

Apple today announced that the new 13-inch MacBook Pro equipped with the M2 chip will be available to order worldwide starting Friday, June 17 at 5 a.m. Pacific Time. Apple said deliveries to customers and in-store availability will begin Friday, June 24.

Apple had previously said the new 13-inch MacBook Pro would be available in July, so orders are running ahead of schedule. Customers will be able to place an order via Apple.com, the Apple Store app, or through select Apple Authorized Resellers.

The new 13-inch MacBook Pro features the same design as the previous model, including the Touch Bar, with the only notable change being the addition of the M2 chip. Pricing starts at $1,299 in the United States, with silver and space gray color options.

Apple said the M2 chip has an 18% faster CPU, a 35% faster GPU, and a 40% faster Neural Engine compared to the M1 chip. With the M2 chip, the 13-inch MacBook Pro can be configured with up to 24GB of unified memory, whereas the M1 chip maxes out at 16GB of memory. The notebook can also be equipped with up to 2TB of SSD storage.

Apple did not provide an order date for the new MacBook Air with the M2 chip, which remains listed as "available next month" on Apple's website.

While the new 13-inch MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models are both equipped with the M2 chip, one notable difference between the notebooks is that the MacBook Pro features an active cooling system to ensure sustained performance for those with "more demanding workflows," according to Apple, whereas the MacBook Air has a fanless design.

Article Link: Apple Announces 13-Inch MacBook Pro With M2 Chip Available to Order Worldwide Starting June 17

 

[DHagan4755]

Bummer it's not the new M2 MacBook Air.

 

[Joe Dohn]

Question: are M1 iPads powerful enough to create icons on the desktop, or will that feature be restricted to M2 iPads only? 🤣

 

[dantracht]

The placeholder for the 15” air me thinks.

 

[UltimateSyn]

The worst value-wise purchase in Apple's Mac (laptop) lineup.

 

[exoticSpice]

nice. we get benchmarks early

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

Debating if I should place an order. There is a chip shortage in place.

 

[UltimateSyn]

Debating if I should place an order. There is a chip shortage in place.

For this and not the Air? Personal use or to resell to those who were slower on the draw?

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

The worst value-wise purchase in Apple's Mac lineup.

Why is it missing the notch? LOL, It seems like Apple is using last years' body design. Doesn't it also have a Touch ID? They just input M2 chip inside the Macbook Pro. That's pretty much it.

 

[zorinlynx]

Debating if I should place an order. There is a chip shortage in place.

All the more reason to place an order now if you think you might want one. It may be months before you get it. We're still waiting on 14" Macbook Pros where I work and the order was placed in April.

You can always cancel the order any time if you realize you don't need it.

 

[exoticSpice]

The worst value-wise purchase in Apple's Mac lineup.

No that would be the Mac Pro with Intel chip

 

[alexe]

I don't understand why anybody would buy this over the MacBook Air.

 

[UltimateSyn]

No that would be the Mac Pro with Intel chip

Fair. And the Intel Mac mini, too. Going to edit my post to specify laptops.

 

[trifero]

The absurdest mac ever.

 

[trifero]

I don't understand why anybody would buy this over the MacBook Air.

I completely agree.

 

[seatton]

I am old so I look forward to having my face blurry a bit with the M2 MBP front camera!

 

[CalMin]

Funny that this is the one they ship first.

 

[UltimateSyn]

Missing out on the Air's vastly improved webcam, larger screen, new design, lowered weight, full-height function key row and MagSafe... But it has a fan.

 

[yabeweb]

The worst value-wise purchase in Apple's Mac (laptop) lineup.

You get a nice M2 with fans what will not make it throttle.... and a touchbar (some people like that) so it's not that bad.

Now I agree that it should have been removed from the lineup from simplification, but it's not a bad deal.

 

[formerapplefan]

Come on Apple, stop teasing us and let us order the MBA.

 

[LeeW]

I guess this has its appeal to some. It does a job and if that job is what you want it to do and prefer this design then fair enough.

 

[jav6454]

One of the most straight up best Macs for everyone

 

[jav6454]

Missing out on the Air's vastly improved webcam, larger screen, new design, lowered weight, full-height function key row and MagSafe... But it has a fan.

And yet it sells #2 out of all Apple's Macs. Don't bash tif you don't like it. Move along.

 

[nfl46]

Apple could have kept this MBP update in the lab.

 

[michaeljk]

Was very surprised to see it comes with a TouchBar. Weird. I really liked the TouchBar (or at least the promise of what it would have been able to do if other developers had utilized it, but could see now why they didn't--Apple didn't support it much). But, on my 2018 13" MBP, the TouchBar was super flakey, meaning it would frequently just turn off, go black, then sometimes come back on when I Rebooted, sometimes not, super annoying. Anyway, glad to put that experiment behind me (have a 2021 16" MBP, which in the past (roughly) year, has been flawless (so far).