More Apple Silicon
Late last year, Apple introduced the first core silicon of its own design in the form of the M1, impressing everybody with the insane amount of power it was capable of delivering just in Apple’s entry-level MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models.
It’s a development that’s left us salivating for more. After all, if the M1 already outperforms the most expensive 16-inch MacBook Pro — at least in single-core performance — just imagine what the next-generation of Apple Silicon can do.
Apple has said that the full transition from Intel to Apple Silicon could take a couple of years, but that means that 2021 will likely be the banner year, during which we’ll almost certainly see the higher-end MacBook Pro models get an “M1X” or “M2” version of the chip, quite likely accompanied by an updated iMac as well with the desktop-class chip that Apple is said to be working on already.
The bigger question? An iMac Pro or a Mac Pro featuring Apple Silicon. While that could happen in 2021 as well, our best guess is that these will come on the tail end of the transition, particularly since most of the real “Pro” market for these machines — large animation and video production houses like Disney and Pixar — are a bit less likely to jump on a whole new architecture right out of the gate.