New MacBook Airs and 13-Inch MacBook Pro Will Reportedly Feature M3 Chip

[Camarillo Brillo]

Lol. I remember my first computer had 1gb HD and the guy at circuit city told me its so big I’d probably never run out of space.

 

[compwiz1202]

Lol. I remember my first computer had 1gb HD and the guy at circuit city told me its so big I’d probably never run out of space.

That's every time tech improves. Software makers always find a way to use it eventually.

 

[Christopher Kim]

LOL, love this trip down memory lane. As a child of the 90s, I was really into computers as my dad was a programmer, and grew up with lots of computers in our house. Fond memories of tinkering with old 386/486s, playing games and chatting on CompuServe / BBS Boards, and still remember the HUGE JUMP when I upgraded from 8MB to 16MB ram, went from 14.4k to 28.8 to 33.6 to 56k modems, and when games were stored on 3.5" floppy disks!

 

[InauguralHobbit]

And guess what, the one afterwards will have the M4!

 

[orbital~debris]

Update: nope

 

[Chazak]

Update: nope

I think that comment is just a wee bit late to the party.

 

[orbital~debris]

I think that comment is just a wee bit late to the party.

That was the point 😜

 

[SB1500]

Next-gen product to feature next-gen tech specs.

Someone call the police!!! It can't be?!

 

[Chazak]

That was the point 😜

Weren't too sure you were aware the article was published months ago.

 

[James Godfrey]

Apple began mass production of 3nm chips end of December and you think we wont see M3 until end of the year?

Yep 😂

 

[James Godfrey]

So in this scenario, Apple is going to spend all this capital to sit on millions in state of the art chips for 6+ months to make sure they dont have shortages of a laptop at launch? While also allowing the tech to become less impressive as competition has more time to catch up?

VS

Selling these chips and devices to bolster their quarterly earnings as soon as possible?

That’s exactly what they will do 😂

 

[Chazak]

That’s exactly what they will do 😂

Absolutely correct. They will start showing up in products in the fall. The MBA is not likely to see a M3 chip before next spring.

 

[orbital~debris]

Weren't too sure you were aware the article was published months ago.

This is how bad my Safari tab problem is! MR threads from months ago 😅

 

[James Godfrey]

Absolutely correct. They will start showing up in products in the fall. The MBA is not likely to see a M3 chip before next spring.

Yeah 100% I fully expect M3 announced late this year in the iMac and probably 13” MBP, next spring will probably see the iPad Pro, and MBA’s, Max mini etc. get an update to the M3 with the M3 Pro Max etc coming out mid to end of 2024.

I also expect the headset will end up getting M3 to ‘sweeten the deal’ for launch early next year too.

I think for the time being the M Series chips are on 18 month to 2 year cycle, obviously as time goes on that cycle will gradually get shorter but not for the foreseeable future.