MacBook Pro 2022 reportedly enters mass production — and it could be this big

MacBook Pro 2021 reportedly enters mass product — and it could be this big

MacBook Pro 2021 may have entered mass production

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It looks like a MacBook Pro 2021 annunciation could be coming this autumn, as a new report from DigiTimes claims that mass production of the new laptop is underway.

Citing supply chain sources, DigiTimes reports that come November, Apple could ship up to 800,000 new MacBook Pro models, in both the reportedly new 14-inch size and redesigned MacBoook Pro 2021 16-inch variants. If legitimate, this tip would suggest a big MacBook Pro launch will be some time between September and November.

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The study doesn't spill many more details about the upcoming MacBook Pros. But there take been plenty of rumors and tidbits that have given the states a fairly adept thought of what to look from the new models.

We're expecting to run across the new MacBook Pro 2021 sport a new blueprint, notably with the fourteen-inch model fitting a larger display into a xiii-inch chassis and finer replacing the current MacBook Pro 13. And that display is tipped to use a mini-LED panel, just similar the one in the 12-inch iPad Pro 2021, to deliver improved brightness contrast and colors. We're also expecting the next 16-inch MacBook Pro to go the mini-LED route.

More ports are as well expected with the return of the SD carte du jour reader and HDMI port. And we could see a new form of MagSafe charging on the MacBook Pro 2021. Apple is likewise tipped to make things interesting in terms of ability.

The new MacBook Pros are expected to utilise the M1X chip. This piece of silicon volition be reportedly be a more than powerful take on the Apple tree M1 bit found in the current MacBook Pro M1 with upward to ten CPU cores and 16 cores for the GPU; that would exist a hefty heave on the octa-cadre CPU and eight-cadre GPU of the M1 chip.

More power, a better display, more ports and a redesign could boost the entreatment of Apple's pro laptops even further, making them new contenders for our all-time laptops list.

We're expecting to run into the iPhone 13 make its debut in September, potentially alongside the Apple Watch seven and iPad mini half-dozen, so we'd expect the adjacent-gen MacBook Pros to get their own launch issue, potentially in October. Stay tuned to Tom'southward Guide for more equally we hear it.

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