But it will be tight as the following products have yet to be updated:
- 27-inch iMac
- high-end MacBook Pro
- high-end Mac mini
- Mac Pro
Gurman expects the high-end iMac and the Mac Pro to be last. The latter will be redesigned and become more compact, the Bloomberg reporter thinks. It will be half the size of the current model and will have more processor cores, with 20- and 40-core variants. Apple will then just meet the promised timeline, maybe a month earlier or later. Until now, the roll-out of Apple Silicon has been relatively slow, which has raised the question of whether Apple will make it all. With a track record of 90%, there is a good chance that the roadmap that Gurman is now providing is indeed correct.
For those waiting for a high-end MacBook Pro with Apple Silicon, there's better news: they're almost ready and can be announced anytime this fall. It is probably equipped with an M1X processor, a more powerful variant. Shortly after, a new Mac mini will follow, the second variant with Apple Silicon.
In announcing Apple Silicon, Tim Cook said the company was on a tight schedule to move from Intel to its own chips in two years. The first M1 Macs arrived in November 2020, and there were immediately three: the MacBook Air, the entry-level MacBook Pro, and the Mac mini. If Apple is to keep its two-year promise, the move must be completed by November 2022. The devices that require a lot of performance would have been pushed to the end of that period. Apple would also like to renew the MacBook Air in 2022, possibly with an M2 processor. It can get MagSafe.
Gurman also thinks that one more Mac Pro with Intel is on the way. This would be a CPU from the Intel Ice Lake Xeon W-3300 family, intended for heavy workstations.