According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple plans to release new Mac computers equipped with the M3 chip in October this year, but the Mac mini and high-end MacBook Pro models are not in the first batch of the launch list.
In the latest issue of the Power On newsletter, Mark Gurman says that Apple is working on an M3 version of the Mac mini, but that Apple isn’t rushing to release it, and it probably won’t be available until late next year or later. Similarly, the new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models won’t launch with M3 chips this October but will be followed by the M3 Pro and M3 Max chips, which are expected to be released by mid-2024 at the latest.
Mark Gurman notes that the M2 version of the Mac mini comes more than two years after the M1 version, suggesting that Apple doesn’t see the Mac mini as a device that needs to be updated every year. By contrast, the high-end MacBook Pro, a much more popular device, is updated about every four to five quarters.
Mark Gurman said last week that the first Mac with an M3 chip could launch as early as October this year, and that the first models with M3 chips could be the 13-inch MacBook Pro, 13-inch MacBook Air, and 24-inch iMac. It’s widely expected that, compared to the 5nm-based M2 chip in existing devices, the M3 chip will It is widely expected that the M3 chip will be manufactured using TSMC’s 3nm process, resulting in significant performance and power efficiency improvements over the 5nm-based M2 chip in existing devices.
