Kuo: Imaginative and prescient Professional to hit retailer cabinets in ‘late January or early February’

When you in all probability didn’t discover a Imaginative and prescient Professional beneath the Christmas tree this morning, it received’t be too lengthy till you possibly can hand over $3,500 to Apple and get one. A brand new report from Ming-Chi Kuo at this time reiterates expectations that Imaginative and prescient Professional might be out there for buy someday in February.

In his report, Kuo writes that mass shipments will start subsequent week, adopted by retail availability quickly after:

Shipments in 2024 are estimated to be roughly 500,000 models. Imaginative and prescient Professional is at present in mass manufacturing and can start mass shipments within the first week of January 2024. Imaginative and prescient Professional will almost definitely hit the shop cabinets in late January or early February based mostly on the present mass cargo schedule.

Kuo’s report follows a narrative from Bloomberg final week, which stated Imaginative and prescient Professional manufacturing is shifting alongside at full pace at Apple’s factories in China. In line with Bloomberg, Apple’s purpose is for “customer-bound models to be prepared by the top of January, with the retail debut deliberate for the next month.”

Are you planning to purchase Imaginative and prescient Professional when it launches in February? In a latest 9to5Mac ballot of 9,800 readers, 66% of individuals stated they aren’t going to purchase Imaginative and prescient Professional, whereas 19% stated they’re, and 15% stated they haven’t decided simply but.