(Reuters) – Analysts anticipate Apple Inc to unveil new Mac laptop computer computer systems with extra highly effective processor chips at an occasion that will probably be streamed later Monday.
Bloomberg has beforehand reported that Apple plans to launch two new MacBook Professional fashions with 14-inch and 16-inch screens. The Cupertino, California-based firm launched some new laptop computer fashions final yr that for the primary time used its “Apple Silicon” chips, which it stated could be phased into the corporate’s desktop and laptop computer lineup over the course of two years.
Earlier than Monday, Apple’s strongest laptops nonetheless relied on chips from Intel Corp. The corporate has already positioned a primary technology in-house-designed M1 chip into some MacBooks in addition to its Mac Mini and iMac desktop machines, however the brand new bigger MacBook Professional fashions are anticipated to characteristic a second, extra highly effective technology of the corporate’s chip.
The brand new chip, together with a normal rise in laptop computer gross sales as staff and college students stocked up on tech {hardware} to work and be taught from residence, prompted a growth in Mac gross sales throughout the pandemic. Income rose 11% to $28.6 billion in Apple’s fiscal 2020, at the same time as iPhone income declined 3%.
The anticipated MacBook Professional introduction comes weeks after Apple overhauled its iPhone, Apple Watch and iPad lineup.
Some analysts imagine Apple on Monday will even replace its AirPods wi-fi ear buds, although rumors of an replace have circulated forward of different Apple occasions this yr with out coming to cross. Add-on units like AirPods are usually giant sellers throughout vacation purchasing seasons and have turn into certainly one of Apple’s fastest-growing classes, with its residence and equipment phase rising 25% to $30.6 billion in Apple’s fiscal 2020.
(Reporting by Stephen Nellis in San Francisco; Enhancing by Bernard Orr)
