In accordance with a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is readying a brand new batch of Macs to launch “between late spring and summer time.” This features a 15-inch MacBook Air and a brand new 24-inch iMac. From the report: Apple’s subsequent iMac desktop is at a complicated stage of growth referred to as engineering validation testing, or EVT, and the corporate is conducting manufacturing checks of the machine. The following iMac will proceed to come back in the identical 24-inch display screen measurement as the present mannequin, which was introduced in April 2021. The variations being examined additionally are available in the identical colours as the present iMac, a palette that features blue, silver, pink and orange.
The brand new iMacs will, after all, be extra highly effective — with a brand new M-series chip to exchange the M1. There additionally will probably be some behind-the-scenes adjustments. The pc will see a few of its inner elements relocated and redesigned, and the manufacturing course of for attaching the iMac’s stand is totally different. Whereas growth of the brand new iMacs — codenamed J433 and J434 — has reached a late stage, it isn’t anticipated to enter mass manufacturing for at the least three months. Meaning it will not ship till the second half of the 12 months on the earliest. Nonetheless, this can be a nice growth for anybody disenchanted that Apple’s all-in-one desktop hasn’t been up to date in almost two years.
Except for the iMac, Apple is scheduled to launch about three new Macs between late spring and summer time, I am instructed. These three fashions are more likely to be the primary 15-inch MacBook Air (codenamed J515), the primary Mac Professional with homegrown Apple chips (J180) and an replace to the 13-inch MacBook Air (J513). The massive remaining query is which processors these new Macs will run on. We already know the Mac Professional will embrace the M2 Extremely, which can present as much as 24 CPU cores, 76 graphics cores and the flexibility to prime out the machine with at the least 192 gigabytes of reminiscence. We additionally know that Apple has developed the subsequent iMac on the identical timeline because the M3 chip, so I might count on it to be one of many firm’s first M3-based machines.
