Whereas iPhone followers are more likely to be properly served by tomorrow’s (September 12) Apple September occasion, with the anticipated launch of the iPhone 15 vary, it appears that evidently these hoping to see new MacBooks this yr will probably be dissatisfied.
As MacRumors experiences, well-known Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has revealed on X (previously Twitter), that Apple “is not going to launch new MacBook fashions (outfitted with M3 sequence processors) earlier than the top of this yr”.
看起來到今年年底前，Apple應該都不會發售新款的MacBook (配備M3系列處理器) 機型了==Plainly Apple is not going to launch new MacBook fashions (outfitted with M3 sequence processors) earlier than the top of this yr.September 8, 2023
This contradicts earlier leaks that prompt Apple may maintain an occasion in October to point out off new MacBook Air and MacBook Professional fashions, alongside a brand new iMac – all powered by the rumored M3 chip, its follow-up to the M2, which launched final yr.
All is just not misplaced
Whereas this newest leak is definitely a blow to anybody trying ahead to seeing new MacBooks, there’s nonetheless a glimmer of Mac-related hope, as folks have latched on to the truth that Kuo particularly says there’ll be no new MacBooks, presumably suggesting that different Mac units may nonetheless arrive in 2023.
This is perhaps studying somewhat too a lot between the traces, but when that’s the case, a new 24-inch iMac looks as if an apparent candidate. Apple’s iconic all-in-one hasn’t had an replace because the M1 24-inch iMac mannequin, launched in 2021, so a brand new mannequin will surely make sense.
As for a bigger iMac, there hasn’t been a brand new mannequin with Apple’s personal chips – the final one nonetheless ran on Intel {hardware} – so that may be one other candidate.
Nonetheless, within the grand scheme of all issues Apple, iMacs are a comparatively area of interest product (regardless of being among the finest all-in-one PCs you should buy), and the corporate would possibly merely suppose it’s not value updating them. And if it does, I can’t think about that Apple would select iMacs because the units to debut the M3 chip in; if new iMacs are certainly coming, it could make extra sense that they are powered by the M2 chip.
The truth that we would not see the M3 chip – or any units powered by it – till 2024 really is sensible, even when, on the face of it, it is disappointing. Apple continues to be releasing new M2-powered units, with the 15-inch MacBook Air launching just some months in the past, and the MacBook Professional 14-inch (2023) and MacBook Professional 16-inch (2023) launched earlier this yr powered by the high-end M2 Professional and M2 Max chips. So Apple launchinh an M3 chip that makes these new merchandise already appear dated wouldn’t go down too properly with clients who’ve splashed out for them.
Holding off till subsequent yr will give these M2 MacBooks extra time to shine, and can hopefully permit Apple’s engineers to supply one thing really particular with the M3 to make it definitely worth the wait.
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