These new M3-equipped iMacs might are available in October

Apple might do a brand new product launch in October, in keeping with Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in his Power On newsletter in the present day, and he speculates that the main focus of the presumably-post-iPhone 15 launch might 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 yr.

Gurman hedges fairly arduous 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 adjustments to the shape issue this time round. In final week’s Energy On, Gurman wrote that bigger, doubtlessly 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 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 specific concerning the iPad, saying a attainable M3 model of the iPad Professional with an OLED display will present up subsequent yr. He does level out {that a} sooner iPad Air mannequin is in improvement. That might 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 — not less than, the iMac and 13-inch MacBook Air — may present up this yr or subsequent, making them the primary on the brand new rumored 3nm Apple Silicon chips. Firstly of the yr, well-connected provide chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo stated new M3 Professional / Max chips are expected in the first half of 2024.

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