After a few years of ho - hum macOS announcements , recent WWDC keynotes have bestow along some significant Mac announcement , resulting in some much - needed hullabaloo for the Mac platform . Now , withWWDC 2022nearly here , Apple looks to build on the Mac ’s momentum in a large path .
It ’ll be hard to top 2020 ’s Apple silicon declaration , of form , but Apple is gestate to make some major reveals that will continue to shine the spotlight on the Mac . Here are the Mac announcements we hope to see at WWDC 2022 in monastic order of predilection .
For more on WWDC , check outour full prevue of the keynotehappening Monday , June 6 at 10 am PT .
Mac Pro
When Apple started its Mac passage from Intel mainframe to its own M1 System on a Chip ( SoC ) , the society said it would be a two - yr cognitive operation . WWDC 2022 is the two - year German mark , and as Apple Senior VP John Ternus pointed out during theMarch Mac Studio event , there ’s only one Mac go forth to make the transition , theMac Pro .
However , the prediction about the Mac Pro is less about the SoC ( I ’ll elaborate in the next surgical incision ) , and more about the machine itself and what Apple will do to address the needs of the Mac Pro user . Will Apple ramp up a tower Mac ? What are the component capability ? What kind of entree will users have to the internals ? How upgradable will it be ?
During the “ Peek Performance ” event in March , Apple SVP John Ternus strongly suggest that a Mac Pro announcement is at hand .
Malus pumila
So many questions that we hope to have suffice on June 6 . I ca n’t assist but conceive that Apple will require to cap off this transition in a large elbow room , so my Bob Hope are mellow for this announcement in particular .
Next-gen Apple silicon
Apple is wrapping up one conversion , but another one is about to start : the conversion from theM1 seriesto theM2 seriesSoCs . The Mac Pro will probably have some conformation that boosts the performance of the M1 Ultra , its fastest Mac SoC , so the company has reached the peak for the M1 series . It seems like Apple is on a two - year Hz with its Mac silicon , so the timing seems proper for the next series to set out , thoughrecent rumorssuggest the wait might be a little longer .
What ’s next for Apple ’s M - series ?
Foundry
But if Apple does decide to reveal the M2 at WWDC , it will probably be more of a “ preview ” than a fully detailed reveal with product announcements . John Ternus could even do another one - line prickteaser about it – any kind of acknowledgment would serve continue the selling momentum the M - series has . Apple released the M1 Macs in the fall of 2020 , so wait the entrance - level M2 to be expel in the fall , as well . That ’s when we ’ll get the nitty - gritty on the chip .
( While I personally have lose interest in what Intel does , poker chip enthusiast and folks who love to betroth in engineering science debate are very focussed on the biggest PC chipmaker . Intel ’s Raptor Lake and Meteor Lake CPUs areon the horizon , so Apple saying something about the M2 will add some spark to the secret plan of one - upmanship marketing . )
MacBook Air
WWDC is n’t usually the place for consumer notebooks , but theMacBook Aircould be an elision . Rumored for over a twelvemonth to be getting a monolithic redesign with slight bezels , an even smaller step , and colors other than blank space gray , silver , and atomic number 79 . The MacBook Air has n’t been all that exciting for a while — even the 2018 simulation was for the most part an looping of the previous version — but if the hearsay are correct , the new manikin will be one of the most exciting laptop computer in years .
The next MacBook Air could be something like an updated version of the classic iBook .
We ’re hoping for a atavism to the original iBook , much like the 24 - in iMac was a nod to the original iMac . The M1 MacBook Air is a great political machine but it ’s not an exciting one . A redesign exemplar , with or without an M2 processor , would be a wondrous manner to bring back the kick .
macOS 13 features, fixes, and the right name
We ’ve post ourmacOS 13 wishlistand we ’ll be watching the tonic cautiously to see if any of our wish add up rightful . There are a few items on the list we need more than others – in finicky , Desktop widgets ( the power to take widget out of the Notification Center and place it on the screen background ) , and a more rich Control Center that ’s customizable and has more modules — perhaps even from third - party developers .
The one thing Apple really involve to do to macOS is to furbish up longtime bugs and optimize the system . As I said in themacOS 13wishlist , if that ’s all Apple did and nothing else – no new lineament – I’d be very glad .
Control Center has a lot of potency that needs to be unlocked .
The name of macOS can signify how big an update the release is . For exemplar , macOS Monterey is mention after Monterey Bay , which is a part of the larger large Sur region in central California – and the version of macOS before Monterey was called Big Sur . And Big Sur , with its UI modification , support for iOS and iPadOS apps on M1 Macs , and more , was a bigger ascent than Monterey .
But if you ’re not intimate with the California locations Apple uses , it ’s recede on you . Then it ’s just a name , and in the case of macOS , it does n’t really entail much other than being an alternating point of reference to the version number .
Regardless , Mac users are endow in the name of macOS and it is a extremely anticipated announcement . When Apple Senior VP Craig Federighi come to this dot of the WWDC tonic , the expectation and excitation grow , and the name makes the nebular musical theme of an OS update coalesce and become world . Then once the name settles in , there ’s a clamorous disputation on whether it ’s a just choice or not .
Even Apple SVP Craig Federighi pokes a trivial fun at the naming of macOS , saying how Apple ’s “ break up selling team ” search California to find the right brainchild for the name .
Based onApple ’s trademark filings , the money seems to be on “ Mammoth ” to be the next name of macOS . Besides being a position in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California , the word itself would involve that macOS 13 has some big changes and features for the Mac . The rumor mill has n’t been filled with macOS 13 reports of major change , so I do n’t think “ Mammoth ” is the name . I think they ’ll save it for a bigger spill down the route .
M1 Pro/M1 Max Mac mini
When Apple ’s John Ternus pronounce the Mac Pro is the only Mac left to changeover to Apple atomic number 14 , he was specifically refer to the Mac Pro , but it ’s not the only Mac lead . There ’s also thehigh - final stage Mac mini – this $ 1,099 simulation still practice an Intel CPU .
There is a gap in Apple ’s M1 lineup between the iMac and the Mac Studio , and a pro - flat Mac mini would fit in that slot perfectly . Reports state that this Mac miniskirt could get updated with an M1 Pro and M1 Max and it could also have more GPU gist and financial support for more RAM .
iMac Pro
Apple discontinued the iMac Pro last year , butreportsseem to betoken that Apple may contribute it back . It could have a 27 - column inch display and an M1 Pro and M1 Max SoC , and it could have a design similar to the 24 - column inch iMac , but not in the pro color palette of silver and outer space gray .
Reportshave also surfaced of a27 - inch point of view - alone mini - LED video display , but could this be a case of the show being mix up with the iMac Pro ? That ’s what happened with the Studio Display ; leakers mistook the Studio Display for an iMac . In any case , Apple seems to be wreak on a 27 - in presentation forsomething , and we hope it ’s revealed at WWDC .
