Apple teases new Mac announcements coming next week – likely M4 MacBook Pros

Highly anticipated: Recent rumors and proviso concatenation leaks person indicated that Apple plans to refresh nan full Mac lineup pinch M4 processors complete nan adjacent year, and a caller tweet from nan institution stops conscionable short of confirming analysts' expectations. However, Apple appears to beryllium readying a accelerated drawstring of announcements alternatively of a monolithic property conference.

Apple elder trading VP Greg Joswiak precocious confirmed that nan institution will make aggregate awesome announcements passim nan last week of October, starting Monday, October 28. Recent reports suggest that nan Cupertino elephantine will present aggregate M4-powered MacBook Pro models, followed by different M4 Mac devices.

Apple introduced nan M4 SoC earlier this twelvemonth pinch nan latest iPad Pro model, which remains nan sole M4 device. Utilizing a refined TSMC 3nm node, nan processor achieves notable capacity gains complete M3. Furthermore, Apple included a 38 TOPs neural motor to support gait pinch emerging AI PC chips for illustration nan Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite, Intel Core Ultra 200, and AMD Ryzen AI 300.

Mac (ðÂÂÂ) your calendars! We person an breathtaking week of announcements ahead, starting connected Monday morning. Stay tuned… pic.twitter.com/YnoCYkZq6c

A awesome package update for Apple's mobile devices will utilize nan neural motor to powerfulness Apple Intelligence, which exits beta later this month. Its generative AI functionality will alteration users to automatically revise text, edit photos, summarize messages, and interact pinch Siri done earthy connection prompts. Macs are besides expected to person entree to nan features soon.

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman antecedently predicted that nan MacBook Pro would beryllium Apple's first PC to person M4, pinch caller models arriving astatine nan extremity of October aliases nan opening of November. Apple is expected to connection 14-inch and 16-inch variants equipped pinch nan M4 Pro and M4 Max processors.

Apple mightiness besides present M4 variants of nan Mac mini adjacent week. Before nan extremity of 2024, nan institution is expected to motorboat nan product's first awesome revision successful respective years. With options for nan M4 aliases M4 Pro, nan caller Mac mini will characteristic 5 USB-C ports, nary USB-A ports, an HDMI port, and a smaller creation resembling nan Apple TV.

A caller M4-powered iMac could besides motorboat this year. However, nan MacBook Air, Mac Studio, and Mac Pro won't person M4 updates until 2025, starting pinch nan MacBook Air successful Q1. Apple precocious revealed a caller iPad mini equipped pinch an Apple Intelligence-ready A17 Pro processor, and nan modular iPad mightiness follow suit adjacent year.