The 2022 MacBook Air
The main target is tightening on Apple’s September iPhone 15 occasion, with new M3 Macs anticipated to debut with maybe much less fanfare in October as an alternative.
The summer season is all the time replete with rumors about Apple’s September occasion. At one level within the rumor cycle yearly, the one occasion is mostly rumored to replace almost each Apple product. The total scope of the occasion solely will get made extra clear with time, usually very near the occasion.
In his Sunday publication, Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman sheds some gentle on what he expects to see in September, and what’s going to launch in October maybe as solely a press launch.
“The construction of the occasion, I am informed, will match the iPhone 14 launch: A prerecorded video will probably be proven on-line, in addition to at an occasion on the firm’s headquarters,” Gurman writes. “There’s additionally one other launch occurring in October — probably for the primary M3 Macs — but it surely’s unclear if that will probably be positioned as a proper occasion.”
A press launch debut of recent M3 Macs is not unprecedented. The M2 MacBook Professional, and the M2 Mac mini fashions did not have an occasion. And, traditionally, most Intel MacBook Professional and iMac spec bumps after a brand new chassis debuted hit the road after a press launch.
During the last ten years, Apple had October occasions in 2013, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, and 2021. Full occasions in October did not occur in 2015, 2017, 2019, nor in 2022.
The shift over from the M2 era to the begin of the M3 is anticipated to begin within the Fall sooner or later. As common for Apple, the M3 Professional, M3 Max, and M3 Extremely launches will probably be additional down the highway.
Apple tends to make the 13-inch MacBook Professional, the 13-inch MacBook Air, and the Mac mini the primary fashions to ship in a chip era, and they’re nonetheless good candidates this time round. The M2 Mac mini was launched in January 2023, so that will nonetheless wait a bit if Apple maintains a daily cadence.
The 24-inch iMac can also be awaiting an improve, lacking out on the M2 era, although there’s much less of an opportunity of an M3 15-inch MacBook Air because the M2 hasn’t been round that lengthy.