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Of course, Apple will offer a new product announcement circular in October. The company announced today that it will stream a product event at five p. m. PST / 8 p. m. m. ET on October 30, which is unusually late in the day (and month) for an Apple event. The “Scary Fast” tagline does not reveal anything about what Apple plans to announce, however, history and Apple experts and analysts recommend that the company will do so primarily on the Mac.
As Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman pointed out yesterday, the iMac and all 3 MacBook Pro sizes have longer-than-usual lead times indexed on Apple’s website, indicating that an update is imminent. My guess is that hosting a real live-streamed product occasion. . . rather than simply announcing new products through a press release, as Apple did with the new Apple Pencil last week, it increases the likelihood that new Macs will include next-generation M3 chips. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes Apple will focus on the M3 MacBook Pros on the occasion, although just two weeks ago he didn’t think Apple would have anything to announce this year yet.
These new MacBook Pros are said to arrive just 11 months after the M2 update for those Macs, which launched in January, but it’s worth noting that those Macs were most likely meant to launch in late 2022, based on the original URL of their announcement video. It’s not that the M3 MacBook Pros are a little ahead; It’s likely that the M2 versions were a bit behind schedule.
As for the iMac, it’s been nearly two-and-a-half years since Apple brought the original Apple Silicon style, and it’s the only type of Mac that hasn’t had the flavor of the M2 chip (not counting the M1 MacBook Air, which stayed in line as a budget style when the M2 Air launched). Any kind of upgrade, especially an M3 version, would be welcome. But Kuo and Gurman agree that a true replacement for the 27-inch iMac may not arrive until 2024 at the earliest.
Apple’s M3 is expected to be built using a 3nm TSMC production procedure, the same as the iPhone 15 Pro’s A17 Pro chip. To update the iMac and all 3 MacBook Pro sizes, Apple will most likely have to announce the popular M3, as well as the M3 Pro and M3 Max, chips that have appeared in developer records sometime in the past year. These 3 chips are expected to work by adding more CPU cores and/or GPUs, in addition to Apple’s functionality and power gains. may derive from overhauling your CPU and GPU architectures. The new production procedure is also expected to allow Apple to harness the power of the chips, expanding their functionality without increasing their overall power consumption.
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