On the eve of the WWDC 2022 Worldwide Developers Conference, when most people are quite curious about which new Macs will be launched, four new Mac computers have appeared on the website of Apple’s authorized reseller B&H Photo, namely Mac mini, Mac mini tower, MacBook Air And the entry-level MacBook Pro page and information.
From the information on the B&H Photo website, it seems that Apple is preparing to launch new products such as “M2 Mac mini”, new “Mac mini tower”, 14-inch M2 MacBook Air and 13-inch M2 MacBook Pro. Let’s take a look at the details and appearance of the new products. design.
M2 Mac mini
This shows that the Apple M2 chip will be applied to a variety of Mac computers in 2022 for the first time, and the data shows that in 2022 The Mac mini model will be equipped with an M2 processor, 8GB of memory and a 256GB SSD, which is not much different from the basic specifications of the current commercially available Mac mini. It is expected to be only a small facelift to improve processor performance.
Mac mini tower tower design computer?
It is worth noting that the product name of the Mac mini tower surfaced for the first time. The new product marked with Tower will be equipped with the Apple M1 Pro chip. It is speculated that the Tower will be the same as the Mac Pro (Tower) with a tower design, similar to a vertical computer host?
The B&H Photo website does not provide pictures and specifications of the Mac mini Tower. It is expected that the Mac mini Tower will be used to replace the Mac mini model. After all, Apple has launched the beast model Mac Studio at the Apple Spring Conference in March. If the appearance is upright Instead, the tower host will go against the product positioning of the Mac mini, and the Mac mini Tower may be similar Mac Studio It adopts a double-layer design, and a low-level dual centrifugal fan cooling system is added on the top to cope with the heat of the M1 Pro. At the same time, the addition of the Tower is mainly for the convenience of distinguishing product names.
M2 MacBook Air brand new facelift
In addition, the long-awaited M2 MacBook Air product page also appeared on the B&H Photo website. There are also no relevant photos and specifications. However, news broke in recent months that the appearance of the M2 MacBook Air model will usher in a new design, which will be changed to MacBook Pro. Design, the thickness of the body is thinner than the previous generation, the screen will also have a Face ID bangs design, the border will be white, and there will be more new colors, which may be available in space gray, silver, gold and dark blue. .
M2 MacBook Pro
The new 13-inch MacBook Pro in 2022 will also be equipped with the Apple M2 processor. Compared with the M1, the main difference is that the new generation M2 is also expected to be equipped with an 8-core processor (4 performance cores and 4 energy-saving cores). The main difference is that it is equipped with 10 cores. The core GPU will provide more powerful image processing capabilities than the previous generation 8-core GPU.
There is also news that the 2022 MacBook Pro will also abandon the Touch Bar fingerprint touch bar, the screen will be increased to 14 inches, the side width will be narrower, and there will be more bangs design. The M2 chip can provide faster performance, the main positioning is still in The entry-level model, both in terms of performance and screen technology, is only available on the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models.
Apple promised at the WWDC 2020 conference that it would replace its Mac products with Apple Silicon processors in two years. At present, the remaining Mac Pros have not yet switched to Apple Silicon, but still use Intel processors, so is WWDC also Will it bring Apple Silicon Mac Pro Easter eggs? All the answers will be revealed at WWDC 2022 at 1:00 am Taiwan time on June 7th.
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