Apple began rolling out its powerful M4 chips in May with the launch of the M4 iPad Pro, now it’s expected that the first Macs with M4 chips are also slated to arrive this year. According to Bloomberg News‘ Mark Gurman, Apple will update both the MacBook Pro and Mac mini lineups this year.
The entry-level 14-inch MacBook Pro is expected to get an M4 chip, while the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models will be updated with M4 Pro and M4 Max chips. The Mac mini will get M4 and M4 Pro chips. The MacBook Air, Mac Studio, and Mac Pro models won’t be updated with M4 chips until 2025, and it is not yet clear when the iMac might see an update with the refreshed chip technology.
Apple’s M4 chip is built on an upgraded 3-nanometer node, with Apple first introducing 3-nanometer technology with the M3 line. In Geekbench 6 benchmarks, the M4 chip is up to 25 percent faster than the M3 chip when it comes to multi-core performance, so we could see similar gains for the M4 Pro and M4 Max chips.
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Apple better start innovating across all segments if they’re gonna grow that 3.28 trillion market cap. Wallstreet will quickly grow disinterested with apple’s slow motion roll out of A.I. Its gonna be up to a year before the majority of customers feel the urgency to upgrade hardware to unlock AI features of iOS. Looks like iPhone 17 will be the year Apple AI will be fully rolled out.
Large iMac. 24″ is a kiddie computer.
Hope they fix all the problems with the chip before doing a larger roll out, best to nip it in the bud before a huge product release
If they don’t come out with an M4 mini then I’ll show them and just not buy one.
I’ll be impressed with Apple silicon when it’s the best compared to other faster chips eating its lunch. Apple an incredibly wealthy company, with a clueless CEO and poorly managed priorities, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist with all their resources and money to make THE FASTEST COMPUTER CHIPS on planet earth. Fire Cook and get a CEO less interested in pride parades and more interested in MAKING APPLE GREAT AGAIN!…
Apple has not shipped the fastest CPUs available since the PowerPC days. Even the Xeon chips shipping in Mac Pro systems were not the very high end of those chips.
You can’t build a chip that will both beat the very high end Intel and AMD CPU chips and beat the very high end Nvidia and AMD GPUs and get it to work in a Mac Studio. It’s just not physically possible.
Additionally, you can’t build the fasted CPU, fastest GPU, and fastest NPU into one “chip”, even if it’s an aggregate of multiple “chiplets”. There likely will always be a stand alone CPU, GPU, and NPU that will be faster than an integrated one. That’s just reality.
Do I hope that with the redesigned M4 that the line up will be M4, M4 Pro, M4 Max, M4 Ultra, and add M4 Extreme (with the M4 Extreme being a double M4 Ultra)? Absolutely. That could make the M4 Extreme based Mac Pro worthwhile. Alas, it looks like Apple is treating the Mac Pro as an after thought (if even that) for those dumb enough to buy one (and this from a person who has been buying and using Mac Pro or Mac Pro equivalents, for a long, long time).
Whoever is posting stuff like “Apple doesn’t make the absolute highest performance in any give category, so therefore Apple is wimpy”
is =SERIOUSLY= Missing The Point.
While the Intel and AMD world’s are dealing with “how do we support 250W TDP in a consumer product?”, and all of the problems that come with that; Apple is getting 9/10, or more, of the same performance while only using < 60W TDP. Peak. In every performance category.
That =MATTERS= folks.