If you were not convinced that Apple is going to release new Macs in the near future, then I inform you that you are wrong. A new model of MacBook Pro and a new model of iMac were discovered in a series of benchmarks that appeared on the internet in the past few days and they talk about products that are not available in Apple's offer and that have much better performances than the current ones. For starters, we have the MacBook Pro 9,1, a successor to the 8.X series, and it comes equipped with a 7 GHz Intel Core i3820-2.7QM quad-core processor from the Ivy Bridge series, which was rumored to be coming to the MacBook Pro the 15/17 inch ones. If you look at the image above, you will notice that the score obtained by the new Mac is 12252 and it is almost 20% better than the one obtained by the current MacBook Pro model, i.e. 10,500. Finally, the benchmark also shows us that the Mac has a build of OS X Lion that is newer than the one publicly available to users, so we are talking about a software that theoretically only Apple could have.
Moving on to the iMac, we have a 7 GHz Intel Core i3770-3.4 quad-core processor that is part of the same Ivy Bridge series. Unfortunately, the results of this iMac are weaker than those of the MacBook Pro and only a few percent better than those of a normal iMac, and this in the conditions that it has hardware corresponding to a high-end model. Both Macs have hardware configurations that were discovered in the files of Mac OS X Lion in February and both have non-public versions of Mac OS X Lion, so theoretically we are talking about products that only Apple could have.
The information from these benchmarks can be falsified at any time, so no one can say that they are 100% valid, but there is a good chance that Apple will announce at WWDC 2012 the launch of new Macs.
