{"id":494363,"date":"2023-06-02T17:01:33","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T15:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=494363"},"modified":"2023-06-02T17:13:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T15:13:35","slug":"apple-could-launch-m2-powered-mac-desktops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/494363-apple-could-launch-m2-powered-mac-desktops.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple could launch M2-powered Mac desktops"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple could launch new Mac desktops with high-end M2 Max and M2 Ultra chips at its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) next week, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Gurman believes the powerful chips will feature in an updated line of Mac Studio desktops instead of the Mac Pro that Apple is testing internally.<\/p>\n

He previously expected Apple to skip the M2 upgrades for its Mac Studio desktops, which launched in March 2022.<\/p>\n

However, the model identifiers for the new Mac desktops he expects to be announced at WWDC 2023 are Mac14,3 and Mac14,4, while the Mac Pro carries the model identifier Mac14,8.<\/p>\n

While the M2 Max chip is already featured in the 16-inch MacBook Pro, the M2 Ultra will be entirely new.<\/p>\n

Gurman says it will have 16 performance cores, eight efficiency cores, up to 76 GPU cores, and support up to 192GB of RAM.<\/p>\n

For reference, Apple’s previous generation “Ultra” chip \u2014 the M1 Ultra \u2014 featured 16 performance cores, four efficiency cores, 48 GPU cores, and support for up to 128GB of RAM.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, Gurman also revealed<\/a><\/strong> that Apple would start accepting M1 Mac Studio trade-ins, which, combined with other rumours, makes a new line of Mac Studios seem even more likely.<\/p>\n

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Now read: Meta unveils new affordable Quest headset \u2014 slashes price of older model<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mark Gurman also revealed that Apple would start accepting M1 Mac Studio trade-ins, which, combined with other rumours, makes a new line of Mac Studios seem likely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":468535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[82019,82157,82159,77106,71480],"class_list":["post-494363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-apple-m2","tag-m2-max","tag-m2-ultra","tag-mac-studio","tag-mark-gurman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}