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Three Unreleased Mac Models Appear in Apple's Find My Configuration File
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Never going to happen. It makes no business sense. Also, the performance models still outperform new gen lower models on multi-core, which the performance models target.
Just like the A-X/Z chip never came before the A- chip.
Contrary to articles suggesting the M3 isn't available yet, I don't believe it has anything to do with availability but more to do with a business decision to use up the M2's, which thus far has not in my opinion achieved the market share that Apple wanted. They did not help the situation with the Press picking up on the SSD speeds, even though for many users the difference was unnoticeable. However it was not a good advert to have performance in any way going backwards, and it was played heavily by competition and the media.
In general I've not been impressed with the M2 and have steered clear of new hardware, but that is because the first implementation on the 24in. iMac of the M1 was extraordinarily good.
Sure it may not have serviced the needs for those needing massive performance, but for a general machine it was astounding creating aspirations of major performance hikes with each M series chip, which with regards to the M2 didn't really happen.
So I believe it may have more to do with Apple utilising what they have as a business decision not because of any shortage of M3, which if introduced may effectively hit their own market leaving them with surplus stock as its noticeable that we seem to be getting weekly price reductions on Apple hardware via Amazon and similar retailers.
In general I've not been impressed with the M2 and have steered clear of new hardware, but that is because the first implementation on the 24in. iMac of the M1 was extraordinarily good.
Sure it may not have serviced the needs for those needing massive performance, but for a general machine it was astounding creating aspirations of major performance hikes with each M series chip, which with regards to the M2 didn't really happen.
So I believe it may have more to do with Apple utilising what they have as a business decision not because of any shortage of M3, which if introduced may effectively hit their own market leaving them with surplus stock as its noticeable that we seem to be getting weekly price reductions on Apple hardware via Amazon and similar retailers.
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I agreed I love my mac mini M2 no reason for Apple to upgrade it right now just updated back in January
My bad guess based on the Mac14,x pattern and that leak: Mac14,1 for iMac, Mac14,4 and Mac14,11 for Mac Studio, Mac14,8 for MacBook Air 15", and Mac14,13 and Mac14,14 for Mac Pro.
I’m gonna go with; M3 announced at WWDC, M3 Pro > Ultra announced in November.
Users shouldn't care or even know about these numbers.
Apple made them generic for the sake of secrecy, that's all. It'll be good to be surprised at WWDC.
I‘m going to dream for a Mac Studio in M2 Max config, with 32, 64 and 96 GB ram, even thought it would make more sense for the iMac and mac pro.
there was no rumor panel rumor for the iMac, the Mac Pro definitely should be announced at WWDC but not released until later and every time Marc Gurman denied the Mac Studio update, it was always “i don’t see a mac studio ultra“ until the M3.
the other option being that the VR/AR thing is classified as a mac? maybe its base station?
there was no rumor panel rumor for the iMac, the Mac Pro definitely should be announced at WWDC but not released until later and every time Marc Gurman denied the Mac Studio update, it was always “i don’t see a mac studio ultra“ until the M3.
the other option being that the VR/AR thing is classified as a mac? maybe its base station?
Whilst I don't rate Mark as my favourite Apple related figure, it's clear he gets access to some info before others. But not as much info as he'd have us believe; he enjoys his role in the tech media a little too much...
So apple moved from intel to their own silicon, among other reasons, so that they could update their computers regularly, but now they choose to skip their own chip upgrades? An M2 max is ready, and so is an M2 ultra since it’s essentialy two M2 max stitch together, just update the mac studio. The iMac remains an M1 as well.
Three new Mac model identifiers were recently added to a Find My configuration file on Apple's backend, as discovered by Nicolás Álvarez (via @aaronp613).
The new identifiers are Mac14,8, Mac14,13, and Mac14,14, and they appear in a list alongside Mac14,3 and Mac14,12, the identifiers for the latest M2 and M2 Pro Mac mini models. The list in Apple's configuration file relates to overriding "separation monitoring," which suggests these could be desktop Mac models that do not need to be actively tracked via Find My for separation from the user as portable Macs do.
Exactly what these new Mac models are is unclear, as Apple has recently shifted from using more specific model identifiers like "MacBookAir10,1" to generic "Mac"-based ones that can apply to any member of the family. The most imminent desktop Mac update we're expecting is the Mac Pro, although Bloomberg's Mark Gurman believes it won't be ready to launch at WWDC in June.
Gurman also believes the Mac Studio will not see an update until high-end members of M3 chip family are ready, and that seems unlikely until perhaps early 2024. With the Mac mini having just been updated in January, the only other apparent possibility for a desktop Mac update is the iMac, but that too isn't expected to be updated until M3 chips are available in the latter part of this year at the soonest.
It is also unclear just how many product lines these three new model identifiers represent. As seen with the Mac mini and other recent Macs, models with multiple chip options can have several identifiers, so it's possible these new identifiers could represent three variants of a single product, or something like two variants of one product and a single variant of a second product.
We'll likely hear more about the potential for Mac updates as we get closer to WWDC, but for now it appears the most likely Mac launch expected at the event is a new 15-inch MacBook Air, not a desktop Mac.
Article Link: Three Unreleased Mac Models Appear in Apple's Find My Configuration File
This whole Apple Silicon rollout has been weird, and not in the good David Lynch way.
It’s likely that’s what coming soon. WWDC is 45 days away. Late April thru mid May is a possible announcement period where the current MacOS beta testing wraps up.
Seems like a lot of time to stockpile new MBA's that could go on sale that day or week or whatever, and then show us new MBP's and a new Mac Pro that could be delivered in the Fall with a new version of macOS.
Right, except m2 Mac studio not coming, it will skip M2.
Mac pro is coming with M2 Ultra and m2 extreme (discard what Gurman says about M2 extreme cancellation, actually he has 0 cues on what's happening with the Mac Pro).
What is intriguing is its next form factor, it won't repeat the Big cheese grater, some patent hints at an hybrid trashcan cheese grater, but don't discard a compact non (or barely) upgradeable cheese grater, even something new as a NeXT-like cube (my favorite concept).
But IMHO while Apple unlikely to repeat the Mac Pro 7,1 modularity, it's what it needs, going even beyond: allowing 3rd party GPU, pcie storage, TPU/NPUs and user expandable ram to 4TB (unified memory isn't soldered memory, apple technically can offer unified memory on discreet user replaceable modules like DIMMs but may not be STD DIMMs).
its possible , but because they want to sell mac studio they wouldn’t leave it M1 based for a another year. That would look like the spruce goose of Macs. A M2 ultra not being able to fly by 2023.
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Apparently I got mixed up with early a chips that launched on iPad first but weren’t ’x’ variants. There were some x variants that came out at the same time as the regular ones tho
They are just identifiers possibly reserved for those models. It doesn't mean they will all be released.
I think they made them generic mainly to stop app developers from trying to interpret them. "This model starts with Macmini or iMac so we're on a desktop machine" and then Mac Studio breaks the app. By making them all "Mac", devs now have to use the proper APIs to get info like "is this a laptop?" (or ask themselves why the app even needs to care about that).