With an Apple Silicon Mac Pro having yet to be released, and even alluded to in this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference keynote, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman shed some light on the situation. In an interview with Max Tech, Gurman revealed that Apple has an M1 Mac Pro ready to ship months ago, but scrapped it to wait for the M2 Extreme.
Gurman, who appeared on the interview to respond to the controversy surrounding the M2 MacBoo Air, responded to a number of rumors and leaks that surfaced recently.
Per the sources, Apple was ready to ship an M1 Mac Pro prior to WWDC, but instead scrapped it for an M2-based model. Gurman also stated that he believes Apple’s actual announcement will arrive by the end of 2022, with the redesigned Mac Pro shipping sometime in 2023.
Predicting the actual chip name, Gurman believes the new Mac Pro will feature an M2 Extreme SoC. This would be more capable than predicted M2 Max and M2 Ultra variants. The Mac Pro, he believes, will use the M2 Ultra in its base model and the M2 Extreme in a higher-end configuration.
Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.
Via The Mac Observer and Max Tech