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The current 13-inch MacBook Pro was one of the first models to feature the first Mac-developed chip, the M1. Rumor has it that the successor will be the 14-inch MacBook Pro with the next-generation M2 (provisional) chip.
According to dylandkt, a famous leaker (a person who sends influential information about unreleased products of interest), the current 13-inch M1 MacBook Pro will be replaced with a 14-inch MacBook Pro equipped with M2 in the latter half of 2022. The housing design so far was the same as the previous model with Intel chip, but it is said that the successor will be renewed and the price will be a little higher.
The currently available M1 MacBook Pro 13 will be replaced with a MacBook Pro 14 with an M2 chip in the 2H of 2022. It will receive a slight price increase over the previous generation. Alongside this release time frame, we will receive the redesigned M2 MacBook (Air).
– Dylan (@dylandkt) January 17, 2022
The new design is specifically the same as the 14-inch MacBook Pro (2021). “It has all the ports in the same housing as the 14-inch,” dylandkt said.In addition, A mini LED backlight screen with a 120Hz ProMotion (variable refresh rate) function, which was a feature of the upper model, is installed, and currently only two Thunderbolt / USB 4 ports are increased, HDMI terminal, SD card slot, etc. May also be added.
The M2 chip here is rumored to be adopted in the next MacBook Air, and dylandkt said that it is a different chip from the M1 Pro and M1 Max. Also, according to Bloomberg information in the US, M2 is an improved version of M1, CPU cores are increased from 7 to 8 to 9 to 10 like M1, and it operates at higher speed.
The current 13-inch version is positioned as a low-priced model in the MacBook Pro, and is equipped with the same M1 chip as the MacBook Air. Therefore, it seems that it is a reasonable development to align the successor devices of the next MacBook Air and 13-inch Pro with the M2 chip. Anyway, I would like to wait for future updates.
Source:DylanDkt (Twitter)
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