The Mac Pro, Apple’s desktop workstation, arrived in 2019 — and it is a secure wager {that a} new model will launch in 2022. It did not occur at yesterday’s Apple occasion, the place the corporate launched the Mac Studio desktop plus the choice to energy it up with the M1 Ultra chip. But some form of M1 Ultra Mac Pro is probably going on the horizon — Apple hinted as a lot on the finish of its March occasion. And a couple of rumors proceed to flow into as we head into the corporate’s developer convention, WWDC, on June 6.
We’ve paired Apple precedent with our personal evaluation to reach at some good guesses for what the M1 Mac Pro might seem like.
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When will the brand new Mac Pro be introduced?
We’re virtually sure a brand new Mac Pro will come this yr — the Mac Pro and that iMac 27-inch are the final fashions left for Apple to hit its self-imposed two-year deadline to finish the change from third-party processors to its personal. And Apple discontinued the 27-inch iMac.
Apple filed three new Mac computer systems within the Eurasian Economic Database, in line with French website Consomac. There is little details about the potential new product (together with whether or not the Mac Pro was one of many fashions filed), however this might trace that Apple will probably be releasing new computer systems along with the brand new Mac Studio pretty quickly. Some will arrive someday in May or June, in line with Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, a seasoned Apple-watcher.
If there are any new or distinctive capabilities that Apple’s planning so as to add with the annual working system replace, software program builders should be the primary to know, and that is what WWDC is for. The system itself in all probability would not ship till October on the earliest.
What will probably be new?
This is anybody’s guess at this level. Apple must proceed to assist its current put in base of Mac Pros with upgrades, as a result of one of many factors of a high-end, upgradable system like that is that it lasts quite a lot of years. That in all probability means Apple will not redesign the chassis considerably, particularly on condition that Apple updates its {hardware} designs occasionally beneath regular circumstances.
To change to its personal processors from the Intel Xeon CPUs and replace to extra fashionable, high-bandwidth requirements (like PCIe 4 and DDR5) in all probability requires a redesigned motherboard, hopefully nonetheless retaining the socketed CPU design. We’ve but to see how Apple plans to scale its M1 lineup to a system that historically depends on discrete graphics and greater than the ten CPU cores in its present M1 Max as effectively. Will Apple have a line of more and more highly effective single-die CPUs or will it double and triple up on the prevailing M1s? Will it create new graphics modules by spinning off the GPU built-in into the M1s or will it proceed to depend on AMD’s Radeon Pro GPUs? Inquiring minds need to know.
There are rumors concerning the M1-based 32-inch iMac with a high-end show and an up to date Mac Mini, however we have additionally been ready patiently for a much less expensive model of its Pro Display XDR; although one thing alongside these strains appears to be within the works, word has it that we won’t see it until October thanks to provide points. That may imply a midrange Mac Pro, which might be nice, until that is the spot Apple designed the Mac Studio to fill. Given that the Studio’s not upgradable, it would not match very effectively with the Pro’s market.
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When will we be capable to purchase a brand new Mac Pro?
In all chance the reply is that this yr, although the brand new Mac Pro desktop might probably be in restricted provide till early subsequent yr if the provide chain crunch continues for too lengthy.
For extra Apple rumors, take a look at CNET’s iPhone 14 rumor roundup. And here is the right way to watch the WWDC keynote on Monday.
