Oh, that’s very tempting! If it ships with an OLED display and a TouchBar - Instant upgrade for me!
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Gurman: Apple Testing 'M3 Pro' Chip for MacBook Pro With 12-Core CPU and 18-Core GPU
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Yep that would be great ! I doubt it'll happen this year though. We'll probably have to wait a few more years for OLED display, and the TouchBar only comes with the 13" MBP model so far. I'm not really sure if Apple has any plans to bring it to the bigger MBP models.
The 13" MacBook Air and 13" MacBook Pro can both be configured with 24GB of RAM and the most-logical configuration would be two 12GB modules so they should be in use already.
SK Hynix does make 18GB LPDDR5 modules so it would be possible to have 36GB in a Mac using two modules of that capacity.
interesting, though that article is already 2+ years old.
I haven't followed the RAM density roadmaps recently but I am 100% convinced that Apple uses standard RAM silicon just in a proprietary package, so interesting ...
Cool, thanks. So there’s nothing really special about it, when it comes down to it. It’s just out of the norm.
It looks like that in addition to 18GB there are also 24GB and 48GB LPDDR5 modules available. If Apple adopted them, this would allow the M3 Pro and Max to support 192GB (4x48GB) and the Ultra 384GB (8x48GB).
Current M1 MacBook Air can do everything that 95% of regular people want in everyday life.
people want more powerful processor.
people want more powerful processor.
if you are willing to pay more $$$ sure they can.
Can't wait to upgrade to M3 MacBook Air with 64GB RAM to browse web, watch youtube, send mail, use Excel & word documents. I need more powerful processor and RAM.
I gladly accept someone providing DirectX 12 graphics compatibility with VMware, Parallels or something else. (covers the 5% you didn't mentioned)
If they are anything like the M2 line, people won’t buy. Expect DEEP DEEP discounts prior to the M3 launch.
Apple is testing an unreleased chip with a 12-core CPU, 18-core GPU, and 36GB of memory, according to an App Store developer log obtained by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. He said the chip is being tested inside a future high-end MacBook Pro running the upcoming macOS 14 update, which is expected to be announced at WWDC next month.
In his Power On newsletter today, Gurman said this chip could be the base-level M3 Pro for the next-generation 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models launching next year. The chip is expected to be manufactured based on TSMC's 3nm process for significant performance and power efficiency improvements.
The current base-level M2 Pro chip in the 14-inch MacBook Pro has a 10-core CPU and 16-core GPU, and starts with 16GB of memory, so the M3 Pro chip would have at least two extra cores for both the CPU and GPU. Apple last updated the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro in January, so the laptops are unlikely to be updated again until at least 2024.
Apple still has to release the standard M3 chip before moving on to the M3 Pro and M3 Max chips. Gurman said Apple is working on new iMac, MacBook Air, and low-end MacBook Pro models with the M3 chip, and he continues to believe the first Macs with the M3 chip will be released towards the end of this year or early next year.
In the meantime, Gurman said the long-rumored 15-inch MacBook Air will be released this summer with the M2 chip. He previously said the laptop would be announced at WWDC, which begins with Apple's keynote on June 5.
Article Link: Gurman: Apple Testing 'M3 Pro' Chip for MacBook Pro With 12-Core CPU and 18-Core GPU
Well this is the same company that shipped smart phones with 8gb of memory….. so……..
It’s already nearly impossible for devs to port AAA games to the new chips. Ray tracing…. When pigs fly.
I have a hunch, an educated guess these devices with storage in the chip will start dying after 4-5 years. The age of 10 year old Macs still kicking is coming to and end.
I don't think that will be the case. iPhones from a decade ago still work and they're also flash based. The storage is also still on seperate chips too.
I wonder why we're not hearing about ray tracing ambitions on M3. The A17 GPU should have it since the A16 was supposed to but it ran too hot before 3nm
Really hope it has it, Optix using RTX hardware on Nvidia blows everything else away
Really hope it has it, Optix using RTX hardware on Nvidia blows everything else away
Storage has been irreplaceable since the 2012 retina MBP. It clearly hasn’t been that much of a factor.
It was replaceable until 2017 but still.
That’s not the RAM, that’s Firefox! Unoptimized!
Does Apple do options???
My MacBook Air from 2011,2014 MBP have had no problems from flash storage chips. Heck I had HDD fail much sooner.
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Logic uses only Performance Cores. Not efficiency cores and fairly minor use of GPUs.
I sincerely hope, that Apple will eventually allow the base-level M3 chip to support two external monitors. Currently, only the MacBook Pro supports dual monitors, the MacBook Air M2 only supports one external monitor. The next MacBook Air M3 should really be able to provide this basic feature again. Even the old Intel MBAs supported more external displays. It shall not be a 'Pro'-exclusive feature in 2023.