In August it was thought that i MacBook Pro with M2 Pro and M2 Max chips they would arrive in Autumn. It was told by Bloomberg journalist Mark Gurman, who usually doesn’t make a mistake. But here it is not a matter of getting a prediction right or not, the theme is another: the world, and above all the tech market, is at the mercy of uncertainties of the momentof a panorama that evolves minute by minute amidst a thousand uncertainties, so that what may appear certain today, in this period, may change tomorrow.
Gurman himself, however, spoke at the time making extensive use of the conditional, emphasizing that due to geopolitical instability, the forecast could have been not accurate. However, the machines were practically ready, and now they are probably ready, yet there are still no clues that suggest an imminent launch despite the thought that if the launch was not launched in the autumn, they would have been presented in early 2023.
And it’s a problem, because as DigiTimes points out, citing supply chain sources, Apple expects that in the first quarter 2023 MacBook shipments suffer a 40-50% drop compared to the last quarter of 2022, when the post-Christmas drop is usually between 10 and 20%. Probably the powerful MacBook Pro with M2 Pro and Max will not arrive in time to “save” the first quarter of the year, and at this point, with the further delay reported by DigiTimes, the first useful window to look at is the WWDC in June, when, in theory, the first Macs with Apple Silicon M3 chips should arrive.
No hypothesis, at the moment, on the reasons for the postponements, nor on the new, possible, debut time window of the M2 Pro and M2 Max chips. Perhaps the DigiTimes sources, in light of the unusually tangled situation by Apple’s standards, have preferred to gloss over .
