Forget the Magic Mouse, the new M4 Macs have the strangest design choice by Apple yet - no new Wi-Fi 7 despite iPhone 16 support

Apple’s afloat uncover of nan caller M4 Macs promises a scope of upgrades powered by nan M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max chips, but nan shaper has omitted support for Wi-Fi 7 - contempt nan caller exertion coming successful nan caller iPhone 16.

The M4 chips person been agelong anticipated, pinch multiple rumors and leaks that indicated important capacity improvements. It now comes arsenic a astonishment to spot that these powerful caller Macs do so connection a large measurement guardant successful performance, but will not beryllium utilizing nan cutting-edge Wi-Fi 7 relationship modular - particularly since nan overmuch weaker device, iPhone 16, takes advantage of this (well, too its bandwidth limitation spotted).

Wi-Fi 7 is quickly becoming nan caller standard for net connections, offering reduced latency and faster speeds. While Wi-Fi 6E is nary slouch astatine providing awesome relationship speeds (via nan 6GHz set connected supported routers), astir held nan anticipation that nan caller Macs would make nan upgrade - mostly owed to nan enhancements made successful different hardware departments, but that oddly hasn’t been nan case.

Excuse nan Magic Mouse controversy. This is nan existent blunder from Apple…

Now, nan weird charging larboard position connected Apple’s redesigned Magic Mouse whitethorn person been a awesome constituent of contention for Apple fans this week, but nan deficiency of Wi-Fi 7 hardware support for M4 Macs whitethorn beryllium nan caller frontrunner of unusual choices made by nan tech giant.

This intends we’ll apt beryllium near waiting for M5 Macs to spot nan caller technology’s inclusion - unless Apple launches updated M4 models later connected (which seems highly unlikely), it could very good beryllium a afloat twelvemonth aliases much earlier this upgrade is done - each while nan Wi-Fi Alliance barrels up pinch plans for Wi-Fi 8.

It isn’t conscionable Macs that person received nan short extremity of nan instrumentality successful nan Wi-Fi department; it’s besides nan iPhone 16, which really does characteristic Wi-Fi 7, but has its bandwidth limited. First spotted by Les Numeriques (article successful French) while testing, nan iPhone 16 tin only utilize 160MHz bandwidth contempt Wi-Fi 7’s capacity of 320MHz.

To springiness Apple nan use of nan doubt, this move could person been made to further heighten nan device’s awesome artillery life (we talk this astatine magnitude successful our iPhone 16 review). Despite this, this limitation and nan complete removal of Wi-Fi 7 connected M4 Macs surely doesn’t bode good for those searching for improved net connectivity…

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