The old new 13-inch MacBook Pro is now for sale on Apple’s website. Currently in the US, the stock $1299 and $1499 models arrive next week, on June 24. Just about any customization pushes an order to July or even August.
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Ming-Chi Kuo: 15-inch MacBook in Works⇢
By the beginning of the year, DSSC said Apple was planning a 15-inch MacBook Air. Then, last week, Bloomberg reported that the company was indeed planning to launch this MacBook, alongside a 12-inch model for 2023. Now, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo also has a few tidbits about Apple’s upcoming MacBooks.
According to Kuo, the new 15-inch MacBook would go to mass production in mid-1H23, with a launch date around 2Q23 or later. The interesting part about this computer is that it may offer two CPU options: the M2 chip (with 35W adapter) and M2 Pro (with 67W adapter).
Clarus is Back in macOS Ventura
Clarus the Dogcow is my favorite bit of Apple lore. It’s really cool to see that our friend is back in the new version of macOS.
Did you know that with macOS Ventura, Clarus the Dogcow has at long last returned home? Recently, while doing something else, I accidentally hit Cmd+Shift+P which opened the Page Setup dialog. I was greeted, surprisingly, with a new high-resolution version of the classic Clarus icon that I’d never seen before. I looked at it briefly, and then closed the dialog and went back to whatever I was doing before. I had assumed that because I’d been in a 3rd-party app at the time, that the Clarus icon was just some easter egg the developer had left. But a little while later, I got to thinking. What were the chances that someone went to the trouble of customizing the Page Setup dialog, of all things, just for an easter egg? Zero, it turns out. That dialog shows Clarus on the page preview in every app.
13-inch MacBook Pro with M2 Orders Open Friday⇢
On Friday, June 17, at 5 a.m. PDT, the updated 13-inch MacBook Pro with M2 will be available to customers to order on apple.com, the Apple Store app, and through Apple Authorized Resellers, and will start arriving to customers worldwide on Friday, June 24. The 13-inch MacBook Pro is supercharged by the new M2 chip, which begins the next generation of Apple silicon and takes the breakthrough capabilities of M1 even further. It features incredible performance, up to 24GB of unified memory, ProRes acceleration, and up to 20 hours of battery life, all in a compact design. The 13-inch MacBook Pro with M2 joins the even more powerful 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro with M1 Pro and M1 Max to round out the strongest MacBook Pro lineup ever. With even more performance and capabilities than before, the 13-inch MacBook Pro starts at $1,299 and $1,199 for education.
Why Stage Manager is Limited to iPads with the M1⇢
Apple, in a statement to Rene Ritchie:
Stage Manager is a fully integrated experience that provides all-new windowing experience that is incredibly fast and responsive and allow users to run 8 apps simultaneously across iPad and an external display with up to 6K resolution. Delivering this experience with the immediacy users expect from iPad’s touch-first experience requires large internal memory, incredibly fast storage, and flexible external display I/O, all of which are delivered by iPads with the M1 chip.
A Tangible Demonstration of Care⇢
David Smith, writing about WWDC 2022:
This year, more than any I can remember, WWDC was the tangible manifestation of Apple’s genuine care for developers, and their desire to facilitate us to do our best work.
Gurman: 15-inch MacBook Air Among Future Notebooks⇢
Mark Gurman, writing at Bloomberg:
The 15-inch model under development is a wider version of the 13.6-inch MacBook Air that Apple announced this week. That design, unveiled at the developers event Monday, is thinner than recent models, relies on the M2 chip and abandons the previous wedge-shaped frame. It’s considered to be the biggest overhaul to the MacBook Air since it was introduced by Steve Jobs in 2008.
Apple has also begun work on a new 12-inch laptop and is considering launching it at the end of 2023 or in early 2024. If Apple moves forward with the release, it would represent the company’s smallest laptop since it discontinued the 12-inch MacBook in 2019.
The Curious Case of the M2 13-inch MacBook Pro
The new MacBook Air with M2 looks like it’s going to be a great machine. I was really impressed by it during my hands-on time at the Steve Jobs Theater on Monday.
The other M2 machine is a bit of a head-scratcher though:
That’s actually a press photo from the 2016 MacBook Pro’s introduction, but you probably didn’t even notice, as the new M2 machine continues to use the same design, including the Touch Bar and the lack of MagSafe.
At WWDC22, It’s All About the Ecosystem
I’m writing this sitting on a couch in an apartment in San Jose that I rented for the week with everyone’s favorite Widgetmaker, David Smith. He’s hard at work doing … developer things … as I catch up on sessions, blog posts and more.
I was fortunate enough to get an invite to attend the Keynote on Monday, joining about 1,000 developers and a bunch of press people at Apple Park.
Apple Could Get Me to Switch to Reminders With This One Weird Trick
I’ve attempted to move from Todoist to Apple’s Reminders app a few times over the years. I’ve always hit some bit of friction, then returned to the third-party option.
With macOS and iOS 16, Reminders gains some powerful smart list features that I am really excited about. However, there is one small feature that still keeps me from switching.
There is no way to have Reminders show a badge for a task due Today.
New HIG, Who Dis⇢
Apple has totally overhauled its Human Interface Guidelines:
Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) is a comprehensive resource for designers and developers looking to create great experiences across Apple platforms. Now, it’s been fully redesigned and refreshed to meet your needs — from your first sketch to the final pixel.
The whole thing looks great, but I’m a little sad it can’t be easily downloaded, like say the 1987 edition of the HIG.
System Requirements for macOS Ventura, iOS and iPadOS 16 and watchOS 9
This year, Apple moved the bar with its OS system requirements in some big ways…
macOS Ventura brings with it a new, shorter list of supported machines that no longer includes any Mac notebooks made before 2017, the 2013 Mac Pro, and iMacs from 2015:
- iMac: 2017 and later
- Mac Pro: 2019 and later
- iMac Pro: 2017
- Mac Studio: 2022
- MacBook Air: 2018 and later
- Mac mini: 2018 and later
- MacBook Pro: 2017 and later
- MacBook: 2017 and later
(Not all features are available for Intel Macs.)