Nah. I still expect M2 MBPs 2022. There are so many folks like me still on older hardware (mine is 2016 MBP) waiting for M2 to upgrade that it must be hurting sales, and M2 is already out in the lower end boxes, so why not facilitate sales before end-of-year? Plus many businesses like to spend on hardware near year end to help minimize taxes.
buy the current model or wait until next year
Indeed. Like I said, I am waiting for M2. That certainly might be next year, which does not faze me, but it harms Apple's bottom line. Especially since once the 2022 tax year ends there is no rush to spend on hardware improvements. If I make it into spring 2023, then maybe I decide to wait even longer for the N3E chips or whatever.
My hunch tells me it’s delayed a bit to implement usb c in their keyboard and mouse
I recently spoke to a premium reseller employee here in Poland and he told me that imacs are the worst selling of all macs, I suspect that it may be the same in other markets. and maybe that's the reason they are being neglected
You know what would be cool? Someone build a custom case that looks like a floppy disk with MacBook Air hardware in it smh, plus a big screen. Now THAT is the floppy iMac.
Given the amazing MacBook Air…I would say it’s going to be great.
IMHO I think it has to do with how computers fit their business and households for respective country and the wealth of the populace to afford them.
iPad users have no right to even talk about MBPs. Shush, go back to playing with your kiddie toy
in pro series apple is conservative in approach to colors, look at the newly released ipads 😉
Yours is a very good question. Apple may add an M2 Pro into the headless desktop box mix, which would probably allow up to a maximum of 32 GB RAM. However, the kinds of apps/workflows that take advantage of additional RAM also tend to create additional heat. Apple may make an arbitrary RAM cutoff for Minis for heat reasons and/or for marketing reasons, since the Studio is there to excel at heat removal.
Keep in mind that the majority of the speed increase for the M2 was merely by increasing the clock speed (and thus heat and battery drain), and increasing the gpu count. It has the same 5nm process, so it's an "S" model at best. Not exciting.
A year newer with Apple engineers spending that year (tens of thousands of engineer hours) improving on what M1 was. Suggesting that M2 is simply a clock speed bump is flat wrong. It is exciting to me and to many other folks upgrading from Intel Macs.
I know all of that but don't care. I like seeing Macs getting faster and the speed improvements will be nice for people who decided to wait for the second-generation AS computers. The M2-Pro/Max will be especially nice for video producers because of the dedicated media engine hardware. There is no way that when Apple designed the new MBPs they didn't plan on cooling versions of the M which run hotter with heatsinks and fans.
