Apple could skip an M2 Mac Studio update to boost Apple Silicon Mac Pro
Enlarge / Apple's Mac Studio desktop. (credit: Andrew Cunningham)
If rumors are to be believed, Apple has had to scale back its ambitions for the Apple Silicon Mac Pro. A planned performance-boosting "M2 Extreme" chip has suposedly been canceled, and some of the perks people normally associate with the Mac Pro-upgradeable RAM and graphics-likely won't be supported because of the way Apple Silicon chips are designed.
Which leaves us with, if the most recent rumors are accurate, a high-end Mac Studio with user-accessible storage slots stuffed into the current neo-cheese-grater Mac Pro tower design.
That doesn't leave much space between the Mac Studio and the Mac Pro-little enough that the Mac Pro could have trouble justifying its continued existence and price premium. One possible solution, as reported by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman: Apple could simply skip an M2-generation refresh for the Mac Studio entirely, leaving more of a performance gap between the still-M1-based Studio models and an M2-based Mac Pro.