Apple's Upcoming Macs: M3 Chip Details and Launch Predictions!

It's interesting how the theme of this week seems to be Ming-Chi Kuo publicly disagreeing with Mark

Gurman who just last week said that we were getting all these new Macs by the end of the year

This week the headline M3 MacBooks unlikely to launch before 2024. A DigiTimes report corroborates

an earlier prediction from Ming-Chi Kuo that Apple will not launch new M3 powered MacBooks this year

The company does have multiple M3 Macs in development. Of course they do. They would be unusual if they didn't

Lewis loves expositions like that where they talk about things that are

clearly going to happen at some point. Apple is working on stuff. Apple is making more Macs? Oh my god

What an incredible scoop. They're probably working on the M7 or something

But these are what is apparently in the pipeline. An M3 Mac mini, M3 13-inch MacBook Air

15-inch MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro, the one that nobody wants in the middle of the lineup

the M3 iMac, 14 and 16-inch MacBook Pros with M3 Pro and M3 Macs

So apparently we're getting no MacBooks by the end of the year, but that does

technically, by what he's saying, that doesn't exclude the iMac. It's a possibility that we could be getting an M3 iMac, I guess

But that would be kind of weird if they did that, though, because the iMac is one of their lowest volume computers. So it would be weird that they would debut

a brand new M3 chip and only have it available on the iMac

But on the other hand, the iMac is the only computer that skipped the M2 generation

It's been sitting exactly as it has been since like spring 2021, which would be unusual

What is the M3, though? The M3 will probably pack eight CPU cores and a 10-core GPU, the same

as the current M2 SoC. As for the M3 Pro and M3 Macs, Apple plans to boost the number of cores

of each. And it's, of course, moving to the three nanometer process. Although, as we've been seeing

from the iPhone numbers, with their three nanometer chip, the A17, it doesn't actually get

that great of a boost in power and efficiency. So it seems like we're getting a bit of a dud

set of updates for these upcoming months. I don't know, man. I don't know what to believe at this point. I mean, we were just talking. It was literally last week, wasn't it? And I forget

do you remember where that report was from, Griffin, that we were getting a bunch of new

Macs before the end of the year? That was German. Was that German? Oh, wow. Okay. So that goes back to your comment about German v

Ming-Chi Kuo. At this point, I kind of trust German more than Ming-Chi Kuo because I feel like

German is rarely wrong. He won't say something unless he's very sure of what's going to happen

And Ming-Chi Kuo is reading the tea leaves of the manufacturers that he's in contact with

So, but Ming-Chi Kuo is... I mean, when that whole him saying that he believes that pairing

the Apple Watch with the Vision Pro is going to be a boon for sales for the Apple Watch

that was such a bizarre conclusion to me. Now I'm wondering what's going on with him. This is

such insider baseball. I can't believe we're talking about this. But I hesitate to believe

that this is true. For Apple to miss the holiday season of new Macs and at least the update like

the MacBook Air or something, I think would be very strange. Especially if German is saying

it's going to happen. I tend to believe German over Ming-Chi Kuo. Because again

German is usually right about stuff. But I don't know