New 14-Inch and 16-Inch MacBook Pros Reportedly Launching Later This Year

[chucker23n1]

I'm still torn on whether the M2 Pro is a thing that exists at all, since the A16 already exists.

From a SoC perspective: the M1 seems to have an update cycle of roughly a year and a half, just like the A*X did before. It can be assumed that the M1 Pro/Max has the same update cycle, but that would put the new MBP to next year's spring. At which point: why would Apple do the M2 Pro at all rather than skip a generation and go straight to the M3 Pro?

From a laptop perspective, though, the MBP has a cycle of roughly a year. So it is due this fall.

 

[ArkSingularity]

I'm still torn on whether the M2 Pro is a thing that exists at all, since the A16 already exists.

From a SoC perspective: the M1 seems to have an update cycle of roughly a year and a half, just like the A*X did before. It can be assumed that the M1 Pro/Max has the same update cycle, but that would put the new MBP to next year's spring. At which point: why would Apple do the M2 Pro at all rather than skip a generation and go straight to the M3 Pro?

From a laptop perspective, though, the MBP has a cycle of roughly a year. So it is due this fall.

The A16 is mostly just clock speed improvements, they otherwise changed very little about the core architecture itself this generation. On Geekbench, the M2 and the A16 both run at roughly the same clock speed and the single core benchmarks are more or less within the margin of error.

 

[chucker23n1]

The A16 is mostly just clock speed improvements, they otherwise changed very little about the core architecture itself this generation. On Geekbench, the M2 and the A16 both run at roughly the same clock speed and the single core benchmarks are more or less within the margin of error.

We don't really know that yet. We can surmise it based on measured benchmarks, but OTOH, we do know there's a new microarchitecture for both the p-cores and e-cores.

We also don't know what they have in store for the Pro, Max, Ultra, and whatever suffix the Mac Pro SoC gets (Ultra 2, Ultra 4? Extreme?). For example, the M1 Pro/Max/Ultra had LPDDR5 when the M1 did not; they also added a few other features.

As for the clock: yes, but the M1's clock was higher than the A14's (7%), and the M2's higher than the A15's (8%). So it stands to reason an M3 Pro would clock higher than the A16.

 

[Thomba]

Waiting for the next one. Currently I am working on a mid 2014 MBP 17". Which is still doing fine, except for the keyboard that has broken number keys. I now carry a magic keyboard with me in the sleeve.
My 3 kids have Air's, 1 with an Intel, the other 2 with M1 chip. Their benchmark scores are higher than my MBP
So any upgrade will be huge