New MacBook Pros expected soon… but not yet
Apple unveiled its redesigned MacBook Pro lineup in late 2021, with M1 Pro and M1 Max chips inside. After the announcement of the M2 chip in June of 2022, rumors indicated that the MacBook Pro models would be updated with their respective M2 chips sometime in the fall.
This ultimately didn’t come to fruition, with Apple opting to delay the new MacBook Pro models to sometime in early 2023.
Now, DigiTimes reports that Apple may have delayed the launch of these machines even further. While the report stops short of giving any specific timeline for a release, it says the new MacBook Pro updates have likely been “delayed once again.”
Apple was widely expected to release the new MacBook Pros sometime around March. If today’s report is to be believed, however, we are likely going to have to wait until WWDC in June at the earliest. At that point, Apple will also be readying its first M3 Macs as well.
As part of the same report, DigiTimes notes that MacBook shipments are expected to take a big hit this quarter. Supply chain sources say Apple is preparing for a 40% to 50% drop in MacBook shipments for Q1 compared to Q4 2022. While a decline in shipments is to be expected, given that Q4 2022 was the lucrative holiday quarter, Apple usually sees a drop of between 10% and 20%.