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Kuo: 'M3 Series MacBook Pro' to Be Focus of Apple's October 30 Event
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)))I just came now, could someone sum up, what the predictions for the new mbp will be, expect than faster/better/more staorage etc.? Any cool new feature?
Also: (When) Will we see new Magic Keyboards and new Magic Trackpads epsecially with USB-C?
Also: (When) Will we see new Magic Keyboards and new Magic Trackpads epsecially with USB-C?
Certainly, if a new iMac is announced.
No one knows. Previously the "Scary Fast" tag line was about the premium chips in MBPs, so if past informs us then they'll be new MBPs with new chip(s).
But as the tag line in every financial commercial tells us, past performance is not guarantee of the future.
That's the issue, they are paid for this but are no where near 100% accurate. I will never forget when they stated no new iPad Mini 6th gen was going to be launched on the very same day Apple announced it.
Apple can still keep 'some' secrets it seems.
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Yep, the technology is supposed to trickle down to the more affordable machines, not trickle up, The Pro machines should be the cutting-edge aspirational machines that professionals want and need as technology advances. Then after you can get better yields, and work out kinks and issues that can make it more scaleable and easier to produce, it is brought to the masses as a more refined product at a more affordable price point.
Right now it's backward, starting with a base model and trying to scale it up to a Mac Pro that by the time it gets there, it is so far behind technologically that no sane person would ever consider buying one.
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I wonder if it's not an issue (legally speaking in the EU) for them to advertise something as new and yet be about to replace these "new" models literally in a couple of weeks...
Unless, they are not planning to update MBPs this time
Same for the UK page. And, at least to the best of my knowledge, there is no such requirement here.
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Better to just dump the 13" model entirely, and sell a lower priced 14" model without a Pro chip...
I have a feeling this will be an update for iMac to M2/M2 Pro (maybe) and the 13 inch MBP to M3. I'm no analyst though, so could be wrong. I just don't see them shoving M3Pro/Max into the laptops they have just updated in January. That's less than 10 months between updates.
This the same Kuo who said there were no new Macs coming this year?
That still doesn’t explain the lack of availability for immediate delivery of the 14” and 16” MBP before the 7th November for online orders.
Also, in some Apple Stores in the London area, some stock MBP 16” are already showing “Available from 17th November”, so it is very clear something will change in the 14” and 16”, I’m just not sure it’s the M3Pro/Max chips.
For example the MBP 16” with M2 Max is NOT available for pick-up in any London store before the 17th - which is weird.
I think new 14” and 16” MBP will be launched and online orders delivered starting from the 7th whereas availability in store will be from the 17th.
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No, I bought one of the M2 versions just last week BECAUSE it has TouchBar.
My local Apple Store in Australia has online delivery and in-store both 7th of November for the 14" Pro's but immediate delivery and in-store for the 16". Maybe they're still working on clearing out the 16"'s.
I had the M1 Pro on launch day, had it replace by Apple for the M2 Pro when it was hitting 78% battery health.
I'm not planning on buying a new MBP until they change the display to OLED at this point, the response time on these things are crazy.
I'm not planning on buying a new MBP until they change the display to OLED at this point, the response time on these things are crazy.
If those coloured braided cables from earlier in the year were really for the iMac, there was a black one included... Midnight iMac? 😃Yeah that would be another possible one.(also I just remembered that all the iMacs are bright colors and a dark iMac with M3 series would be very cool going with the dark theme)
Part of my gut thinks Apple desperately wants to reclaim that window in time when everyone was raving about Apple Silicon's performance over Intel/AMD and thats gone now or told with a caveat like "best performance per watt...etc". If they are using the words 'Scary Fast' maybe they are going wow some headlines with M3 series.
I was seriously thinking about picking up a Mac Studio this week on discount from MicroCenter but I'll definitely hold off on what they got cooking up(even though a M2 series chips are far more than I need)
The M2 Pro/Max MBPs came out in January, not March (and were delayed from launching in October 2022). 10-11 months is fine for a product lifecycle.
I just checked the French Apple Store and deliveries are on 7th, but the stocks are available for pickup today in Apple Stores in Paris. 14inch and 16 inch variants
I like the 13" Pro with the Touch Bar. Just don't buy it if it is not for you.
In fact, the design of the 2021/2023 Macbook Pros for 14" and 16" is awful. While the cover encloses fantastic machines, they look cheap in comparison to the old design, which is now only preserved in the 13" system. I still have one of my 2015 15,4" models in use, just installed Sonoma on it, and wish that Apple returns to solid design and aluminium cases, while pushing forward on the technology. All in the perspective of an M3 Max powered MacBook Pro is just great!!!
Assuming the M3 is based on the A17 we'll get a decent 25% bump in single core performance (the A17 is 27% faster than the A15 which the M2 is based on), but more importantly we should see a fairly significant boost in GPU performance as that's been Apple's focus the past few processor design cycles (about a 35% boost again extrapolating from the A15 to A17). If hardware ray tracing makes it from the A17 to the M3 that's a fairly big deal for people who use Macs for any sort of 3D work.
That being said I fully agree that people who are expecting revolutionary performance gains akin to the Intel -> M1 jump are probably going to be disappointed, but the M3 should be a solid upgrade since it incorporates two generations of A-series performance gains.
No new design needed, go back to the previous one (without touchbar), just add an hdmi and forget that stupid magsafe.
