Don’t look for any Mac laptops with a M3 processor this year

Backing up previous reports, DigiTimes says that Apple will release its first MacBooks based on TSMC’s 3nm fabrication process next year, not this year.

Earlier it was anticipated that the tech giant would release a 13-inch MacBook Pro and a new MacBook Air with M3 chips. Apparently, it won’t. It seems the only possible new Mac we get this year is a revamp of the 24-inch iMac with a M3 processor. 

in an August “Power On” newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says when Apple launches the M3 processor the default amount of unified memory will be upgraded from 8GB to 12GB. And, according to the Sellers Research Group (that’s me), it’s about time. And it’s also time for Apple to quit charging an arm and a leg for extra memory and storage.

Currently, MacBook Pro models sporting the M2 Pro or M2 Max start from 16GB of unified RAM, and you can upgrade from 32GB to 96GB. With the M3 Pro and M3 Max — which will follow the “standard” M3 —  Gurman says that new MacBook Pro models currently being tested in Apple’s secret labs feature 36GB and 48GB of unified RAM.

Gurman thinks Macs with the ‌M3‌ Pro and ‌M3‌ Max chips won’t arrive until mid-2024 (if not later) and should include new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros He forecasts that Macs with the ‌M3‌ Ultra chip, such as the next-generation Mac Studio and Mac Pro, may not arrive until the end of 2024 at the earliest “if Apple continues making those.”