If you’ve been waiting for the new MacBook Pros to replace your aging computer, Digitimes has bad news for you. In fact, the Chinese information site claims that the presentation of Apple’s next 14- and 16-inch calculators has been postponed again.
New MacBook Pros are coming next June
Although it was believed that the computers would arrive in late 2022 to accompany the release of the Apple Silicon M2 Pro and M2 Max chips, Apple hasn’t announced anything of the sort. Rumors then pointed to an “early 2023” announcement (expected in March), but these too now appear to be false. “Pushed back again,” explains Digitimes, so the next-gen MacBook Pros are unlikely to arrive until June 2023, according to sources polled by the daily. This confirms information from Bloomberg, which claimed the laptops would arrive “in the first half of 2023”.
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Those hoping for a bit of a revolution with the arrival of the M2 Pro and M2 Max chips should also dampen their expectations, as according to Bloomberg the processors arriving in the next few MacBooks offer only “marginal improvements” compared to these should already be on the market.
Apple downsized
It could be that Apple is deliberately waiting before introducing new machines. The latest figures from the analysis house IDC show that the entire computer sales industry has been in a deep slump for several months and Apple is not particularly spared. The Cupertino company is certainly the least affected by the current difficulties — it only shows a drop in sales volume of around 2% compared to the same period last year — but according to Digitimes the manufacturer will still reduce its production rate in order not to have too much inventory.
Apple itself had warned that the final quarters of 2022 and the first of 2023 would be a bit tougher. The combined effect of inflation, rising energy prices and the Covid pandemic, which continues to complicate the situation in China, makes the start of 2023 a difficult time for the computer market. No doubt Apple wants to wait a bit to see if things settle down.
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