Earlier this week, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman revealed that Apple has a new M7-powered entry level MacBook Pro in the pipeline for spring 2027. This isn’t an ordinary MacBook Pro refresh though. It’ll bring the upcoming redesign down to the entry level, something that previously wasn’t expected.
Normally, when Apple introduces a new MacBook Pro design, it takes a short while to trickle down. For instance, the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M1 Pro and M1 Max was introduced in 2021, but the base model MacBook Pro stuck with the 13-inch design until 2023, when it gained the 14-inch chassis with the M3 chip.
Similarly, when Apple redesigned the MacBook Pro in 2016, it wasn’t until 2019 that the entry level model gained the Touch Bar. There’s also a similar story for the 2012 retina MacBook Pro redesign.
This time around though, there’ll only be a roughly 6 month gap before the redesign comes to the entry level.
M7 entry-level with redesign
