A preview of the next Mac processor upgrade is on the way, according to reports.
For months, pundits have been pointing to the long-awaited announcement of new iPad Air and iPhone SE models at Apple’s spring event. But last-minute leaks–not to mention the suggestive ‘Peek performance’ tagline attached to the invites–now suggest the Mac line-up could be bolstered by the arrival of high-power updates during tomorrow’s presentation. Writing in his Power On newsletter, knowledgeable Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman reveals that, according to his sources, Apple “has been testing multiple Macs with a new chip in recent weeks that includes an eight-core CPU (four efficiency cores and four high-performance cores) and 10 GPU cores.” This unreleased processor, Gurman points out, is specced identically to the M2 he has written about in the past. We’ve written about the M2 ourselves, as it happens, and elsewhere we’ve argued that the upcoming M2-based MacBook Air is the only currently rumored Mac worthy of the hype.
