Based on the MBP's performance I've stopped pining after another Big iMac. I can say unequivocally that, until I get out of the MBP's (32 GB) RAM envelope, there is nothing that my iMac Pro can do better than my current 16" MBP hooked to my two 5K displays.Įventually I'm going to sell both the iMac Pro and this MBP and buy another MBP with 64 GB RAM, and it's going to be my only machine. With the current generation of MBP the problem is solved. When I used my 2019 16" MBP in this application, there was endless fan noise and mediocre graphics performance. The reason not to use a MBP for this sort of application was always that it was performance-constrained in some way as a result of laptop thermals. I say this having an iMac Pro on my desk. Honestly at this point the best replacement for most 27" iMac configurations isn't really a Mac Studio, it's a 14" or 16" MBP with either a Studio Display or a LG 27MD5KL. Both the Mini and the iMac could be getting high end models with the M2 Pro which would make a bit of sense of the delay as they’re waiting to introduce the entire M2 generation at once. If the go into 2023 would they be released alongside the M2 Pro and Max models? Or would they press release drop ahead of time to put the focus on the new chips? While Gurman thinks there are no more hardware releases this year, these two could easily be a press release drop in the next couple months. With the M2 in June that would put an M2 iMac any time now… The M1 iMac was 6 months after the M1 introduction. The M1 Mini launched with the M1 so it’s already months later this generation. It does leave the question of where the M2 Mini and iMac will land. February-March for the MBP and then new Studios and the Mac Pro at WWDC. This fall always seemed a bit early to me, so a February-March MBP refresh makes much more sense. Gurman is now reporting that the M2 Pro and Max will be 2023 products not this fall. So if Apple intends to put the Mx Pro in a desktop the only way to make it happen is by extending the mini as a single model that scaled from the base Mx to the fully-featured Mx Pro. I don't think that's a viable product a Pro-only mini likely wouldn't sell in enough volume to be worth it on pure revenue and it's too cheap to exist as a high-margin halo product. So now you're leaving your hypothetical split mini lineup with the entry-level model having an Mx and the higher-end model with a Pro. if you look at Apple's SoC pricing ladder it gets really hard to put an Mx Max in anything cheaper than a Studio anyway (conversely I don't think the fixed costs of the Studio would allow it to be sold with a Pro at acceptable margins). Assuming the mini is capable if keeping the Max cool, you also run into issues of product segmentation (which is a real concern all by itself) and pricing. They have already an Mx Max desktop: the Mac Studio, and unlike laptops you're not save much by shoving the Max into a mini form factor. The current Mx lineup is the base, Pro, Max, and Ultra. They're not gonna split the mini, for a few reasons.
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