Apple Announces October Event for Macs: 'Scary Fast'

[Jay Tee]

It HAS to be the basic M3 chip in all these products. The MacBooks already have M2, so if they get updated it will be M3, and the iMac if just updated to M2 over a year late… it wouldn’t warrant an event. They want an event because they plan on explaining the M3 etc. and then launching the products with it.

Dear Tim,

No 8GB RAM please; nobody cares that it's Unified Memory.

 

[centauratlas]

It was supposed to be 4:20, but they got distracted.

Or perhaps Tim and Elon are having a smoke beforehand?

 

[AppleMad98004]

Scary fast....pre-orders tomorrow....delivery sometime in Q1 2024.

 

[podycust]

what time is that in the UK

1am Tuesday morning! 😮

how is apple going to off set all that carbon needed to keep the lights on at that late hour?

 

[redbeard331]

Missed opportunity to make the apple look like a pumpkin.

 

[jayducharme]

Given that there is a dedicated event I think the chances are high that the entire Mac lineup gets the M3 simultaneously… or something else is in the cards. Otherwise they won't have much to talk about to make it a dedicated event in the first place.

I would love to see an M3 mini announced. That would be an instant buy for me.

 

[tuckerjj]

I’m calling it - Apple Car!

 

[gugy]

Update XDR 32" display please and above all, drop the price on the current one.

 

[NiCk-]

Soooooo, if this is an event is there a chance for iPad refreshes as well ??? I know that Gurman is usually spot on, but I hope that this time it will be an exception !

 

[jclardy]

5PM PT, very interesting. Wonder why the change.

 

[AppleInLVX]

Wow, I sure called this one wrong. Sadly, not too much to tempt me I expect. My M1 mini with studio display does everything I ever needed or wanted it to.

 

[dbc34]

I'm hoping for m3 Mac mini so I can get the m2 pro for even cheaper.

 

[wallaby]

Neat! I guess we can stop with the event rumors now.

 

[Heat_Fan89]

M3 iPhone SE? 🤪

 

[Rychiar]

It’s not one of the most mysterious event we’ve had. MacBook Air, iMac and MacBook Pro 13 are due a CPU upgrade so M3 it is. The MacBook Pro 14 and 16 will get theirs in March 24 and the 15 inch MacBook Air either at the same time or later in 2024. iPad Pro M3 will be release in May 24 and Mini, studio and Pro with M3 will be announced in June at WWDC for release over the summer. It’s always like that.

Why would the mini not come out sooner?

 

[Realityck]

It is not clear if the refresh will focus on new M3-series chips, but depending on what's being overhauled, we could see the iMac and the MacBook Pro models adopting the 3-nanometer M3 chip lineup.

Lets hope so, so that we can finally find out if the M3 is that much better.

 

[Username-already-in-use]

Neat! I guess we can stop with the event rumors now.

No, never

 

[17fox]

2AM (CET)

Looks like it's gonna be the first event in many years that I will watch recorded.

 

[vegetassj4]

Finally my prediction is coming true:

 

[Rychiar]

Apple will tease this and then announce an M1 Apple TV

 

[azentropy]

I still think it's M2 only for iMac. I cannot see them launching a new M3. 1. This year. 2. In an iMac. I know what the rumors have been saying. It just doesn't track, historically.

Maybe, but "scary fast" doesn't sound like just updating the iMac with a processor that is been out for 18 months (which was a very incremental update over the previous processor anyway).

 

[dbc34]

Here we go with the tutti-fruitti, phoney-baloney, plastic banana, good time rock-n-roll Apple PR hype, using pre-recorded videos with over-the-top, hyperbolic scripts and “most powerful,” “most efficient,” “best ever,” etc. nonsense (as if Apple would release an inferior product). It’s like Apple has to over-sell because they don’t believe in their own products.

Any of those phrases you put in quotes, are any of them false?

 

[willyx]

How do you know it's for Macs?

 

[Heat_Fan89]

Apple will tease this and then announce an M1 Apple TV

No no no no. An M3 iPhone SE 🤓

 

[tkaravou]

Subtitling an event as "Crazy Fast" and then not releasing a new chip would be odd