The MacBook Air is a big success, and the company has been releasing new, updated, iPhones every year for ages. I can see why Apple may be attracted to this. However, in my experience, the M2 chip didn’t bring a generational leap that would have made people who owned an M1-powered Mac, such as the MacBook Air (M1, 2020) feel the need to upgrade, and that will likely be even more the case if Apple switches to yearly upgrades. The M1 came out in 2020, and the M2 debuted in 2022, and that felt a reasonable gap. This is where I start to get concerned, as such a move would mark a switch to a yearly upgrade cycle for Apple's M chips. However, Gurman suggests that there will be a new 13-inch MacBook Air coming out in 2023 as well, likely with an M3 chip. While I’m not too convinced that a MacBook Air with a larger screen will be something many people are asking for (part of the appeal of the MacBook Air is how thin and light it is, and a larger screen may impact its portability), at least a model with a larger screen would differentiate it from last year’s model. This news is more puzzling, given that the latest model, the MacBook Air (M2, 2022), is less than a year old, and came with a major redesign and new M2 chips.Īccording to Gurman, Apple will release a new 15-inch MacBook Air this year. However, there’s also some news that I’m less happy about… A yearly MacBook Air? No thanksĪccording to Gurman, Apple is also planning on releasing not one, but two MacBook Airs in 2023. So far, Gurman’s rumors about Apple’s 2023 Mac plans sound promising. I can definitely see this happening, and a new Mac Pro would be an ideal product for a chip of this calibre.
We’ve not heard anything about an M2 Ultra chip, but if Apple employs the same design as the M1 Ultra (which debuted with the Mac Studio in 2022), it will likely be two M2 Max chips joined via an ultra-fast connection to essentially make one large, incredibly powerful chip. The rumors suggest it will also feature an incredibly-powerful M2 Ultra chip, with 24 CPU cores, 76 GPU cores, and support for up to 192GB of memory. With the last Mac Pro released in 2019, it’s a product that really feels like it could do with an update. Gurman also says that Apple will finally release a new Mac Pro in 2023, and that it will be the first of Apple’s super-powerful desktop workstation PCs to be powered by Apple’s own chips, after it parted ways with Intel.Īgain, this makes sense, as the Mac Pro is one of the few Mac products (alongside the 27-inch iMac and iMac Pro) that has yet to have a new release powered by Apple silicon. (Image credit: Brittany Hosea-Small/ AFP/ Getty Images) Finally, a Mac Pro could be on its way
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