M4-Powered MacBooks Are Likely Releasing Next Month

The autumn play means it’s clip for Apple to refresh its full merchandise lineup. Like each year, it introduced its new iPhone series successful September, on with a brace of AirPods and a renewed Apple Watch series. Next month, successful October, it’s rumored to unveil its MacBook lineup with the caller M4 spot (seen connected the latest iPad Pro) powering everything connected the menu.

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that the M4 Macbook overhaul volition apt hap “in the coming weeks.” Looking astatine the past mates of years, this seems imaginable since October is usually the period Apple reserves for its Macbook releases. The caller M4 series, including the M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max chips, volition powerfulness the upcoming slate of Mac hardware releases. These SoCs volition beryllium AI-focused and introduced on with a gamut of Apple Intelligence features, making this upgrade precise AI-heavy. 

Gurman predicts a caller fund 14-inch M4 MacBook Pro codenamed J604. Two higher-end 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro options (J614 and J616) are besides hitting the shelves. These volition purportedly athletics the M4 Pro and M4 Max chips, becoming the lineup’s premium options. There volition besides beryllium a caller iMac (J623) with the M4 spot present powering it. 9to5Mac guesses a power to Type-C for the iMac, too, arsenic it’s inactive moving connected a Lightning cable, which the EU is not happy about.

The shrunken Mac Mini (J773) volition apt spot 2 caller SoC variants, M4 and M4 Pro. If the Mac Mini update predictions are true, it volition beryllium an breathtaking leap since it wholly skipped the M3 lineup and upgraded to an M2 Pro successful its astir caller January 2023 revamp.

You’d apt request to hold for the archetypal 4th of 2025 for the MacBook Airs. Gurman predicts an M4 upgrade of the 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Airs (J713 and J715) “by the spring.” The M4 releases are going to proceed good into 2025, with the Mac Studio (J575) allegedly launching astir the mediate of the twelvemonth and the Mac Pro (J704) coming retired towards the extremity of the adjacent year. According to 9to5Mac, these mightiness beryllium the archetypal devices to debut the M4 Ultra spot and a low-end M4 Max variant for the Mac Studio.

We don’t person overmuch intel connected the iPad, but apparently, new, lower-end iPads volition beryllium released alongside the MacBook Pros adjacent month. These volition apt see an upgraded mini version.