New high-end MacBook Pro and Mac Mini with M3 chips coming next year
New high-end MacBook Pro and Mac Mini with M3 chips coming next year
New high-end MacBook Pro and Mac Mini with M3 chips coming next year
According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the Mac mini and the high-end MacBook Pro won’t be the first Macs to feature the M3 chip when it launches later this year.
In the latest issue of the “Power On” newsletter, Gurman said he believes “an M3 version of the Mac mini will definitely come eventually,” but not in the near future, or even through development.
As such, he claims the machine won’t appear until late 2024 at the earliest, and it won’t be among the first M3 Macs released.
Likewise, the new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models won’t be the first M3 Macs to debut later this October.
The machines are expected to feature the M3 Pro and M3 Max chips, “likely” by mid-2024 at the latest.
He also noted that the M2 Mac mini came more than two years after the M1 version, suggesting that Apple doesn’t view the Mac mini as a device that needs to be updated every year.
That’s in stark contrast to the high-end MacBook Pro, which is much more popular and refreshed about every four or five quarters.
Last week, Gurman said the first Macs with the M3 chip could launch as early as October. The first models to feature the M3 chip could be the 13-inch MacBook Pro, 13-inch MacBook Air, and 24-inch iMac .
The M3 chip is widely expected to be manufactured using TSMC’s 3nm process, which will offer significant improvements in performance and power efficiency compared to the 5nm-based M2 chip in existing devices.
