Apple might do a brand new product launch in October, in keeping with Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in his Power On newsletter at the moment, and he speculates that the main target of the presumably-post-iPhone 15 launch will probably be new Macs, hinting the M3-powered iMac could also be amongst them. Gurman has previously written that Apple is planning to launch an M3-powered iMac on the finish of this 12 months.
Gurman hedges fairly exhausting on this prediction, however the timing feels proper. The final time we noticed a brand new iMac was when Apple released its colorful redesign greater than two years in the past.
That doesn’t essentially imply we’ll see any modifications to the shape issue this time round. In final week’s Energy On, Gurman wrote that bigger, probably as much as 32-inch iMacs won’t show up until late 2024, so this refresh could be a spec-bumped model of the 24-inch mannequin we have now now — although that’s hardly a nasty factor.
Gurman additionally thinks we’ll be seeing M3-equipped updates to Apple’s 13-inch MacBooks — the MacBook Air and the MacBook professional — however he doesn’t get specific concerning the iPad, saying a doable M3 model of the iPad Professional with an OLED display screen will present up subsequent 12 months. He does level out {that a} sooner iPad Air mannequin is in improvement. That may put Apple’s midrange iPad again on a yearly launch schedule after it skipped a refresh in 2021, releasing the M1-powered iPad Air in 2022.
Gurman previously said the brand new M3 Macs — no less than, the iMac and 13-inch MacBook Air — might present up this 12 months or subsequent, making them the primary on the brand new rumored 3nm Apple Silicon chips. At first of the 12 months, well-connected provide chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo mentioned new M3 Professional / Max chips are expected in the first half of 2024.
We’ll have to attend and see as the tip of the 12 months approaches whether or not this rumor will pan out.