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Gurman: Apple Already Working on 15-Inch MacBook Air With M3 Chip
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On tech blogs you can’t please any of the people any of the time.
Exactly what has kept me away from mostly all new Apple things for a while now.
It’s tremendously frustrating to see the very transparent gouging game they are playing.
Lock it all down and then absolutely HOSE people on upgrade pricing.
My sources tell me they’re already working on an M3 MacBook Pro too!🤣
The largest contributor to power consumption is the display, so that seems unlikely.
Quite possibly, I suppose a simple chip bump to the M3 < 1 year later might not be too bad (even if it is quite a big performance jump) but if the OLED rumours are true that would probably be a bit galling.
Agree on the frustrating aspect. Getting more ram is only available via Apple BTO, which means in addition to not having the convenience of buying it via a local retailer, you'll also never see any sort of discount. So it's not just an extra let's say $200-$400, its even more because you can usually get a discount on the base models.
My thoughts exactly. And once the M3 is released guess what good people?! The M4 will come after that!
Don't want to make battery life too good otherwise the M3 won't look as impressive
Look at how long Apple is supporting OS updates on iPads, iPhones, and Apple Watch. If that's any indication, no reason an M2-based Mac gets at least 6 years of OS updates.
Hoping for an M3 Mac mini to be in the 2024 lineup. 🙏
The headline of the story reminds me of the event in London where Steve Jobs was launching the iPhone with 02 (at a time in the UK where other phones had 3g and could take videos) and a journalist asked him, words to the effect of, 'are you working on the next iPhone.....(presumably 3g) and his response was.....words to the effect of 'we're working on the next iPhone and the one after that.....' I'd be more shocked if Apple insiders stated "Apple isnt working on M3 chip for MacBook Air 15inch and so on......' I'd even bet they are working on a 'non pro' version of the 'Vision' device waiting to slot all the 'tech' in as it arrives. In other news, Apple are working on iPhone 16 and 17.
that includes 20% VAT/tax ... US pries do not include sales tax ...
So you think they were likely targeting an M3 launch, but as that seems to still be so far out, they had to rush it out with an M2? Seems plausible given the initial rumours were for it to have M3 (I seem to remember?).
That's not entirely true. It's been possible to get some slightly higher builds via BB/Costco/etc lately separate from BTO which helped on pricing a bit. I also generally buy apple gift cards from target to get like 15% back.
But ya if you want totally custom you need to go through Apple (esp the binned cpus or odder ram builds)
Really?
Do you have any links to those?
I have been watching places like Costco forever because I love them but I never see anything with additional RAM for sale there.
My prediction is that we will see the first M3 in the iMac this fall after the iPhone 15 introduction. We will see it migrate to the other products beginning early 2024.
It’s not even out yet and people are already worrying about when it will be replaced.
Queue the nonsense YouTubers with clickbait titles having a party and 12 videos each about this.
Queue the nonsense YouTubers with clickbait titles having a party and 12 videos each about this.
Not too exciting news. I won't be buying another Mac until a 27" (preferably 32") M3 iMac is available. Although I might consider a Mac Studio if a reasonably priced large Retina display finally shows up. To be fair, my M1 Max MB Pro is amazing and I expect to be using it for 5-10 years so I'm not in any rush anyway.
