New M2 Pro and M2 Max MacBook Pro chips to offer ‘marginal leaps’ from current processors
Apple’s forthcoming M2 Pro and M2 Max MacBook Pro models will offer “marginal leaps from today’s MacBook Pro processors,” according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who corroborates previous rumors that suggest that the new 14-inch and 16-inch models will represent minor upgrades of the current-generation machines.
Writing in his weekly Power On newsletter on Sunday, Gurman says that the new machines will be announced in the first half of this year, “featuring the same designs and features as the current 14-inch and 16-inch models, but include M2 Pro and M2 Max chips.”
It should come of no shock that Apple’s new 2022 MacBook Pro models will bring relatively minor upgrades over the previous generation M1 Pro and M1 Max models, which launched alongside a full redesign to the MacBook Pro, featuring an iPhone-style notch, MagSafe charging, a Liquid Retina XDR display, an HDMI port, and more.
Gurman has previously reported that the M2 Max chip will have 12 CPU cores—made up of 8 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores—and 38 graphics cores.