If you’re hankering for a MacBook Pro with an M1X processor, it could be en route later this month.
Per Mark Gurman’s Sunday “Power On” newsletter for Bloomberg, Apple is still planning to launch new MacBook Pro notebooks boasting the “M1X” processor and improved graphical performance.
Apple is rumored to be preparing a second special event for the fall, following after its earlier “California Streaming” presentation. While there’s a lot of products on Apple’s potential launch roster, a report highlights that the MacBook Pro lineup will probably get the most attention for the second showing.
The newsletter insisted that Apple will be launching the MacBook Pro units, and that the product release is “still on tap for 2021.” The first updates are said to be in a “new range of MacBook Pros in the next month and a higher-end Mac mini at some point,” with the additional reasoning that Apple tends to use October to launch Mac updates
Gurman offered the opinion that the M1X processor will offer a more “graphics-intense and professional-focused” Apple Silicon experience than the current M1 processor. Two variations are thought to be developed by Apple, Gurman writes, with both featuring a 10-core CPU consisting of eight high-performance cores and two high-efficiency cores.
The difference in the versions will be in the GPU, as there are apparently variants with 16 graphics cores and 32 cores.
Gurman has also forecast that the M1X MacBook Pro models could include a 14-inch MacBook Pro as well as a 16-inch MacBook Pro, that the units would forego the Touch Bar present in the current model, but could offer mini LED-backlit displays and MagSafe magnetic charging.
Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.
Via AppleInsider and Bloomberg