The leaker @dylandkt, who has correctly stated in the past that the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro will be equipped with the same chip and will be presented in October 2021, has now commented on Apple’s notebook plans for 2022. Accordingly, the 13-inch MacBook Pro (approx. 1,249 euros on Amazon) with the Apple M1 will be replaced by a cheaper variant of the new 14-inch MacBook Pro in the second half of the year.
This should be “slightly” more expensive, but customers can expect the revised keyboard without a touch bar, the SD card reader, the HDMI connection and the MagSafe connector for charging in addition to the larger 120 Hz mini LED display. According to rumors, the Apple M2 will not achieve the performance of the Apple M1 Max, but the chip should work all the more economically, and since the battery of the 14-inch MacBook Pro is almost 20 percent larger than that of the 13-inch model at 69.6 Wh this affordable MacBook Pro can achieve a particularly long runtime.
Around the same time, Apple is expected to launch a MacBook Air with a brand new design that has been rumored for months. Just like the future 14-inch MacBook Pro, the next-generation MacBook Air will be based on the Apple M2 ARM SoC. The high-end 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models are rumored to be getting an upgrade again next year.
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