The All-New 14-inch MacBook Pro
The past two years have brought us one of the longest MacBook rumour cycles in recent Apple history, but that’s probably not surprising since if the rumours are even slightly true, we’re going to be seeing the first significant upgrade to Apple’s MacBook Pro lineup in over a decade.
Last fall, Apple fulfilled at least one major prediction by bringing its insanely powerful M1 chip to the MacBook Air and entry-level MacBook Pro, but it also failed to introduce any new designs.
The message, however, was clear: Apple wanted the power of Apple Silicon to speak for itself, and it would do so most loudly by putting all of that power into a series of MacBook models that otherwise looked identical to their Intel versions. An Apples-to-Apples comparison, if you will.
Now that that’s out of the way it’s time for Apple to lay the rest of its cards on the table, and every report we’ve heard suggests that the long-rumoured redesign is scheduled to arrive this fall, with the 13-inch MacBook Pro being retired in favour of a new 14-inch version that will also be powered by an even more wildly powerful M1X chip.
While some had previously speculated this chip would be called the “M2”, it looks like Apple is saving that for next year’s colourful new MacBook Air lineup. As with Apple’s A-series chips over the years, the “X” suffix will likely be reserved for the “Pro” versions of Apple Silicon in the Mac family, meaning that we might even see an “M2X” by this time next year.