Hopefully these are coming sooner rather than later so I can get a good discount on an M3 Max MBP to replace my broken 2013 model.
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M4 MacBook Pro Models Expected to Launch in Late 2024
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Hoping there’s some improved thermal solution. Not expecting anything major but the Max chip on the 14” is somewhat throttled. Would hope that if they keep that config, they’d figure out a way to remove even more heat from the system somehow. Wonder if the copper solution from the M4 iPad Pro could help somehow (I know, fanless vs fan).
Release of M4 chips might show us how serious is Apple about AI. AI models require memory, more capable models, more memory, simple as that. After WWDC we already know that iPhone 15 is not capable of running AI models because of low memory. NPU is the same, but there is no RAM to fit the model. Shame. Let's hope that new minimum is 12 or 16GB.
Don’t buy first gen they said..
Yet my M1 Air is still going strong and getting all AI stuff…
Only worthwhile upgrade i can see coming is a OLED air or tandem OLED Pro. (Only if it gets thinner)
Yet my M1 Air is still going strong and getting all AI stuff…
Only worthwhile upgrade i can see coming is a OLED air or tandem OLED Pro. (Only if it gets thinner)
If it is true the mac Studio will get upgraded next summer then I think it will launch M5 Ultra on N3P. Maddening performance. Air wont get it until the rest of the series gets M5 late 2025.
It will have a great GPU boost. Then comes M6 series with minor upgrades but that’s when they go OLED so we have that as incentive to upgrade.
OLED in the MacBook Pros this year would be awesome but the rumor consensus has been for 2025 at the earliest.
Do you think then that the M4 gen will last until late 2025? I mean, given the huge improvement with the M4, it makes sense that it will be a long generation.
If the M4 Pro and Max comes out this fall and in a new MBP already, it’s safe to assume we will get a new M chip every year (9-18 months). Whenever it’s ready and a new product needs to be updated. They will have established their cadence.
Can't imagine it will be that big of an improvement over the M3
Right now they are making do with Ultra chips for their AI servers, while at the same time developing a server-specific chip based on the M4. I think it makes more sense to have the server chips do double duty as Mac chips rather than the other way around. As it is, the Ultra is two glued-up mobile chips that do not scale properly, making them highly inefficient for proper desktop workloads. Having their server chips be true high-performance chips finally makes the Mac a viable product in and of itself, but more importantly, better performance for the server farms and the professionals whose work requires them. With chips having utilization for both servers and desktops, it would offer better economies of scale and finally make them worthwhile for Apple to produce.
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I don’t think it’s needed with phones either, but here we are.
Priorities skewed in the sense of, why did they launch it in the iPad Pro first? And they updated the Macbook Air with M3 just like 2 months before that launch?
Why not just wait for the Airs and launch it in the iPad Pro and Macbook Air simultaneously.
several M5 Apple products will be launching in late 2025. You can quote me on that, Gurman
Also, M6 products in late 2026
#insider
Also, M6 products in late 2026
#insider
What are you talking about? It is the only Apple desktop with an M3 chip, all of the other desktops (mini, studio, Pro) are still chugging along with just M2 generation chips
No way they let the iPad Pro have better display technology and have a super thin design, but keep the MacBook Pro exactly the same, but just add an M4 chip.