Before the Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple was rumored to release the new 14-inch and 16-inch Macbook Pro laptops with the upgraded M chips, but as we found out, that hasn’t happened. The next generation of M chip could be named M1X.
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Everyone stay calm… but I just spotted these tags on Apple s YouTube livestream of the June 7 keynote!!!
APPLE CONFIRMED THE M1X!!!@jon prosser you were right after all!!!
This isn t fake, you can get the @TubeBuddy extension for YT and it shows them! pic.twitter.com/C54sBydj7u
Interestingly, Apple has included the “mx1 Macbook Pro” tag under the WWDC keynote that was later uploaded on YouTube. The tag was first spotted by an Apple YouTuber, Max Balzer on Twitter
Apple may have accidentally confirmed the existence of an M1X MacBook Pro
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Not the new MacBook Pro, but it does have ports that are tipped to return!
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference keynote came and went this year without a new MacBook Pro but it looks like that wasn’t the original intent! Intriguingly, Apple quietly included the phrases “M1X MacBook Pro” and “M1X” as tags on its YouTube video of the live keynote, as spotted by Max Balzer (via
Not only does that sound like tacit confirmation of at least one new Arm-powered MacBook Pro, it also corroborates the rumors that it’ll include a new M1 chip, and that Apple will likely market it as an enhanced “X” variant, like it used to do with its high-end iPads, rather than going straight to M2.