Those new M3-equipped iMacs may be coming in October

Apple may do a new product launch in October, in response to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in his Power On e-newsletter as we speak, and he speculates that the main focus of the presumably-post-iPhone 15 launch will be new Macs, hinting the M3-powered iMac may be amongst them. Gurman has beforehand 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 new iMac was when Apple launched its colourful redesign greater than two years in the past.

That doesn’t essentially imply we’ll see any adjustments to the shape issue this time round. In final week’s Power On, Gurman wrote that bigger, probably as much as 32-inch iMacs received’t present up till late 2024, so this refresh may simply be a spec-bumped model of the 24-inch mannequin we now have 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 express concerning the iPad, saying a doable M3 model of the iPad Pro with an OLED display will present up subsequent 12 months. He does level out {that a} sooner iPad Air mannequin is in improvement. That would 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 beforehand mentioned the new M3 Macs — at the very least, the iMac and 13-inch MacBook Air — might present up this 12 months or subsequent, making them the primary on the new rumored 3nm Apple Silicon chips. At the start of the 12 months, well-connected provide chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo mentioned new M3 Pro / Max chips are anticipated in the primary half of 2024.

We’ll have to attend and see as the top of the 12 months approaches whether or not this rumor will pan out.