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Rumor: New 14-Inch and 16-Inch MacBook Pros Delayed Until Next Year

I expect that what they have in lineup at the moment is selling nicely and it's harder for them to meet demand. No reason to add new products right away.

In the spring they can introduce MacBook Pro with M2 Pro/Max, small updates to memory bandwidths, better neural engine, support for more video codecs, image processing. They can add better wifi support and maybe USB 4 80Gbps support if there are planning the new 7K pro xdr that is rumoured.

WWDC will be about introducing update to Mac Studio with M2 Ultra besides the existing M2 Max. Similar architecture to one in the M1 Ultra. There can be "one more thing …" with sneak peak of Mac Pro with M2 Extreme that will start selling in October with the new macOS release.

During summer or around October they can introduce the M3 for MacBook Air and iPad Pro as it well sell nicely during the holiday season. We can expect group of people that bought the first version of M1 MacBook Air or are still on Intel version of Air will think more about updating their computers with the new version.

And existing Macbook Pro with M1 Pro and Max have still a lot of performance available for apps as their developers need to figure out how to optimise them better for Apple Silicon architecture yet. (I'm looking at Docker for example and similar development tools.)
 
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Apple is not jumping to the M3 this spring. They will introduce it on the new Air at some point. Apple will likely want to ramp up 3nm for the new iPhone next fall.
 
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ombrenelcielo said:
There’s absolutely no reason for Apple to continue the yearly refresh cycles right now. I hope they shift to a 2 year one. It would benefit both the consumers as well as the environment.
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There is absolutely no reason to try to observe and fit recent and future releases into some pre-defined cycles now - they just go as is possible with most things randomly slowing and crashing past 2 years ;)
As for 2 years as "optimum" cycle of modern tech, it's a bit stretch as a useful rule, plus I'm sure not good for business, it'll be at least viewed as old tech in some reasonably normal circumstances. Plus you'd need to discount heavily and people waiting for new stuff often buy elsewhere, better not to keep them waiting too long, 1.5 years cycle sort of optimal top in regular market I'd say.
 
Carlson-online said:
They were never ever coming this year. Just nonsense rumours for clicks, and everyone could see that.

The m1 pro's only came out 12 months ago on a brand new architecture, there will be 18-24months on any platform before revision on macs i think due to the cost ( they arent the same as the 'A' line, people tend not to get a new laptop every week like a phone, they are normally on 2-4 year cycles. )
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hear, hear
 
Good maybe they'll launch along side with M2 iMacs (slight spec bump) just like these MacBooks most likely will be. That's all I can see Apple doing now just spec bumps unless they have launched a new product. Apple is slowing innovation in some ways (just like the iPad Pro apart from very minor improvements since the big hitter of 2018 same design, slight updates since adding the M1/M2 chip which would have given them cause to make it a huge upgrade design or otherwise).
 
Klapper.cz said:
There is no reason for Apple to skip M2 Pro/Max/Extreme family. The fact, that TSMC starts/will start 3nm doesn't mean, that Apple will immediately simply skip perfectly good and tried process/family,
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Sure there is. The fact that they already have a perfectly good M1 Pro/Mac/Extreme family.
 
An 18 month cycle fits with the general M-chip release schedule so far anyways. Plus, Apples remarks about Mac revenue in the next quarter pretty much confirmed no more major product releases this year.
 
I don’t care about laptops. A 25% thinner Mac mini with M2 Pro is good enough for the remainder of this year.
 
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Well, after saying Mac sales are going to be down this holiday (due to better Mac sales earlier in the year) and iPad sales down significantly, looks like Apple is battening down the hatches and going to weather the Q4 economic storm that is brewing. Expect a bad Q4 report in early 2023 (just like the rest of the industry) which will spearhead a recession in mid-2023. Yes, Apple is that big now that any significant losses will affect the overall economy.

The folks at Apple are smart. Do you think the hike in service prices is coincidental?!? The extra revenue from services is going to soften the blow of lackluster sales. They know what's coming in 2023 and have prepared for it.
 
ralph_sws said:
Macbook pro's are not delayed because their debut was never planned for the end of 2022, it's all rumors of influencers and macrumors. m2 pro and m2 max were planned in the 3nm technology from the very beginning, that's how they were designed.
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The next MacBook Air will be the first to get the M3. 3nm will take a while to ramp up volume and Apple will reserve that for the Next iPhone
 
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I’m not complaining about the delay/scrapping, the M2 chip is just too similar to the M1 to justify an upgrade for most people anyway. It really makes me think why Apple even released the M2 iPads just now. I agree with some of the posts on here, I think Apple will skip the M2 and use the M3 chip in the next MBP, which would be a significant upgrade, maybe with even a mini-led/oled screen? I wouldn’t be surprised if we possibly get a June/July release like this year’s M2 MBs.
 
M2 definitely seems very skippable. They might as well wait until 3nm.

Like, if the 24” iMac is waiting for 3nm, why wouldn’t the MacBook Pros?

It’s almost like M2 only exists because of the MacBook Air.
 
Leon Ze Professional said:
If the new 14 and 16 inch Macbook Pro's are released in March next year.

I think Apple will skip the M2 nomenclature and go straight to the 3nm M3 for the pro and max CPUs.
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Maybe M3 Max and Ultra
Apple_Gabe said:
I’m not complaining about the delay/scrapping, the M2 chip is just too similar to the M1 to justify an upgrade for most people anyway. It really makes me think why Apple even released the M2 iPads just now. I agree with some of the posts on here, I think Apple will skip the M2 and use the M3 chip in the next MBP, which would be a significant upgrade, maybe with even a mini-led/oled screen? I wouldn’t be surprised if we possibly get a June/July release like this year’s M2 MBs.
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M2 for Air and iPad, M3 for Macbook Pro.
Macbook Pro M3
Macbook Pro M3 Max
The Pro name is confusing both in the product name and in the processor models, Apple can change for this.
Or No change main body, display just New M2 pro update on 2022.
 
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Retskrad said:
The 2021 16” MacBook Pro is the best Apple products of the last 10 years. It has the best display I've ever seen, the best speakers, the best battery life and performance per watt. I wish Apple took inspiration and added an equavalent to the iPad Pro line-up. The 12.9 iPad Pro isn't on the same level. The screen is much smaller and has significantly more blooming, the battery life is way worse, the speakers sound weaker and there are no Pro and Max chips.
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FOr goodness sake, do we really need Pro and Max chips in the iPad?? Performance and RAM are no longer bottlenecks since M1 (performance hasn’t been a bottleneck I would argue since the A12X). The speakers cannot possibly be much better…you’re dealing with physics there as thin as the iPad is. The display is still fantastic on the 12.9 models. It’s noticeable when watching the same content on my wife’s 2018 12.9 and my M1 12.9.
 
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Looks like we are getting into an 18 month update cycle. Not sure if they will push towards a 12. ASi is new, so they may get to a 12 month, but I could totally see 18 month being the plan. Also, maybe when supply catches up and industry gets back to normal, maybe update cycle will possibly be closer to 12 (again, if that’s even the plan).
 
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Kylo83 said:
To be fair it will be just like the iPad Pro a small update with just m2 support and that’s mainly it
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And, the people who are waiting, who never buy the first version of any new product (but especially phones, computers, cars)… want exactly that. v2 of a now proven design, that will last a good 5+ years, just like the Mac they’re currently on.
 
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