As is conventional for brand new Apple merchandise, the primary deliveries of Apple’s 15-inch MacBook Air, M2 Extremely Mac Studio, and Apple Silicon Mac Professional at the moment are being made to clients in Australia and New Zealand. The 2 international locations are the beneficiaries of world time zones, so Tuesday, June thirteenth arrived first in each international locations.
All three new Macs debuted on June 5, throughout Apple’s Worldwide Builders Convention (WWDC), and Apple started accepting pre-orders that very same day. At the moment can also be the day that every one new Macs will likely be out there in Apple retail retailer areas. Since New Zealand at the moment doesn’t have any Apple Shops, Australia would be the first nation the place the brand new machines seem in-store.
Deliveries and in-store availability of the brand new Macs will subsequent start in Asia, Europe, and North America, in that order.
The New Mac Studio
The Mac Studio is as much as 3x quicker than the previous-generation mannequin, which was powered by Apple’s M1 Extremely chip.
Apple says the Mac Studio with M2 Extremely has 192GB of unified reminiscence, which is far more than even essentially the most superior workstation graphics playing cards. The Mac Studio can play as much as 22 streams of 8K ProRes video.
Mac Studio with the lesser M2 Max chip boasts a 12-core CPU, as much as a 38-core GPU, and as much as 96GB of unified reminiscence. That mannequin of the Mac Studio is alleged to be as much as 50% quicker than the previous-generation mannequin.
The Apple Silicon Mac Professional
Apple’s new Mac Professional is powered solely by the M2 Extremely, that includes Apple’s strongest 24-core CPU and a alternative of a 60-core or 76-core GPU. The Mac Professional additionally begins with double the reminiscence and SSD storage and could be configured with as much as 192GB of RAM. The Mac Professional can play as much as 22 streams of 8K ProRes video.
The brand new Mac Professional boasts seven PCle growth slots, together with six open growth slots that assist technology 4, which is 2x quicker than the earlier mannequin.
The Mac Professional additionally boasts eight Thunderbolt 4 ports — six on the again of the machine and two on the highest — which is twice as many as earlier than, plus three USB-A ports, two 10GB Ethernet ports, and two HDMI ports supporting as much as 8K decision and 240Hz body charges. The Mac Professional can deal with as much as six Professional Show XDRs, and helps Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3.
The 15-inch MacBook Air
Apple’s new M2-powered 15-inch MacBook Air lineup includes a 15.3-inch Liquid Retina show, supplies as a lot as 18 hours of battery life, and a fanless design.
The brand new 3.3-pound MacBook Air measures simply 11.5mm thick, making it the world’s thinnest 15-inch laptop computer. The brand new Mac laptops boast a six-speaker sound system, with Spatial Audio. It additionally sports activities a 1080p FaceTime HD digicam and MagSafe charging.
The brand new laptop computer additionally has two Thunderbolt ports, which might deal with an as much as 6K exterior show, and in addition sports activities a 3.5mm headphone jack. It’s out there in 4 finishes — starlight, house grey, midnight, and silver.
The Mac Professional is a “Product of Thailand?”
In different Mac Professional-related information, the brand new “Professional” has a “Product of Thailand” label, despite the fact that the FCC submitting notes that the ultimate meeting of the “Professional” desktop Mac nonetheless takes place within the US
The previous-generation Mac Professional included elements that have been manufactured by greater than a dozen American firms for items offered within the US. Nevertheless, the label on 2023 Mac Professional fashions offered within the U.S. now reads:
Designed by Apple in California. Product of Thailand. Closing meeting within the USA.
Whereas the ultimate meeting of the Mac Professional will proceed to be primarily based within the US, all different Macs are each manufactured and assembled in different international locations.