Soon we will see again Mac Pro. The first of the new era Apple Silicon. It will be the most powerful Mac ever made. It will come equipped with a new M2 Ultra processor, after the company abandoned the M2 Extreme processor project.
So once the new Mac Pro is on the market, the next step would be to renew the MacStudio Current with M1 Max and M1 Ultra processors, for some updated to M2 Max and M2 Ultra. Apple thinks this would detract from sales of the Mac Pro, and may never update it…
Mark Gurman has published a very interesting reflection today on his Bloomberg blog. And if it comes from the famous Apple leaker, we must listen carefully because it is surely what is being suspected in the offices of Apple Park, without a doubt.
And the idea that Gurman exposes makes a lot of sense. Or not. We all know that the new Mac Pro will soon be on the market. The first of the new era of Apple Silicon, and that will mount the most powerful ARM processor manufactured to date for Apple: the M2Ultra. So far, everything perfect.
It would be two desktop Macs with the same processor
The problem is that once the Mac Pro is available and we see and try the wonders of said new processor, months later it is also used to update the MacStudiowith its two current versions: with M1 Max and M1 Ultra processor, for new ones with M2 Max and M2 Ultra.
Maybe in Cupertino they think that this would reduce sales to the Mac Pro, since that would be two desktop Macs with the same performance, and obviously, the Mac Studio M2 would be much cheaper than the Mac Pro M2. Meow.
So Gurman believes that we will never see a Mac Studio with M2, and Apple will wait a year and then launch a new model with an M3 processor. Something similar to what will happen with the 24-inch iMac. A first model with an M1 processor was launched, Apple continues to hold it in its catalog, and we will surely see a new version with an M3 processor in a few months, without any iMac M2 having been launched on the market. Apple stuff…
