With simply the weekend to go earlier than Apple’s Scary Quick occasion, Mark Gurman has offered a ultimate (?) roundup of all the pieces he expects to be introduced.
The headline information, in fact, is predicted to be new MacBook Professional fashions with M3 Professional and M3 Max chips, as Apple continues to push forward of rivals nonetheless attempting to meet up with the capabilities of the M2 line-up …
MacBook Professional
The Bloomberg report says that we’ll see two new MacBook Professional fashions, code-named J514 and J516, and it doesn’t take a genius to decode these into 14-inch and 16-inch fashions.
Gurman says these will “most likely” embrace M3 Professional and M3 Max chips, which appears an unnecessarily cautious phrasing!
When it comes to the efficiency we are able to count on from the brand new chips, the report says that Apple has been testing completely different variations of each the M3 Professional and M3 Max. For the previous:
One baseline model within the works has 12 major processor cores, made up of six high-performance blocks and 6 high-efficiency cores. Typically talking, the extra cores you have got, the extra highly effective the chip. The product additionally has 18 cores for processing graphics […]
One other M3 Professional chip seen in testing by builders has 14 major processing cores, together with 10 for top efficiency and 4 for effectivity, and 30 graphics cores.
For the M3 Max, Gurman studies solely the top-end model examined:
There are a number of variations of the M3 Max in testing, together with a top-end model with 16 major processing cores — 12 for top efficiency and 4 for effectivity — and 40 graphics cores.
New reminiscence choices examined embrace 24GB and 48GB configurations.
Lastly, the report says that the brand new chips will supply improved gaming efficiency alongside the traces of the iPhone 15 Professional’s A17 Professional chip – a transparent reference to {hardware} ray-tracing.
iMac
A brand new iMac has been a very long time coming, and Gurman expects Apple to skip an M2 mannequin and bounce straight from the M1 to a pair of latest M3 fashions.
The exterior design is predicted to stay largely unchanged, however he’s anticipated a “revamped” stand, and says that though the colour choices can be much like the M1 mannequin, we might even see just a few adjustments.
The M3 chip examined is alleged to have 4 high-efficiency cores, 4 effectivity ones, and 10 graphics cores.
USB-C equipment
We stated earlier this week that leaked coloured USB-C cables initially rumored to be for the iPhone 15 are virtually actually as a substitute for equipment to go along with the brand new iMac fashions.
The M1 iMac comes with color-matched peripherals (Magic Keyboard and Magic Trackpad or Magic Mouse) and a USB-C to Lightning cable for pairing and charging. We are able to most likely count on to see these cables and the USB-C model of the Magic Keyboard, Magic Trackpad, and upside-down charging Magic Mouse on Monday.
Gurman agrees.
As a part of a broader shift to USB-C connectors, the corporate will probably roll out up to date variations of equipment — together with its trackpad, mouse and keyboard — that ditch the outdated Lightning ports.
That’s it, people
Gurman reiterates that we gained’t see a brand new model of the 13-inch Contact Bar MacBook Professional on the occasion, although he does count on it to launch later (why, Apple, why?).
Equally, no new MacBook Air fashions, iPads, or AirPods.
