When to Expect New M4 MacBook Air, Mac Studio, and Mac Pro Models

Apple's fall 2024 Mac announcements person included caller iMac, Mac mini, and MacBook Pro models, each of which debuted with variants of Apple's M4 chip. Apple intends to update the remainder of its Mac lineup with M4 bid processors implicit the adjacent 12 months, which volition marque it the archetypal clip that Apple has utilized the aforesaid spot procreation crossed each of its Macs.


This means we tin expect caller M4 versions of MacBook Air, Mac Studio, and Mac Pro models adjacent year. Here's what the latest rumors archer america astir erstwhile each instrumentality volition launch, and what kinds of upgrades we tin expect for them.

M4 MacBook Air

Apple successful March 2024 launched updated 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Air models equipped with Apple's M3 chip, and the institution volition soon commencement accumulation of M4 versions up of an aboriginal 2025 launch, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. There are nary caller plan changes planned for the ‌MacBook Air‌ models, and the absorption volition beryllium connected the M4 chip, but the basal exemplary volition travel with astatine slightest 16GB of RAM, aft Apple updated the basal M3 exemplary to 16GB, up from 8GB. An M4 MacBook Air could besides diagnostic a caller 12MP Centre Stage camera with Desk View support, an betterment implicit the existent 1080p FaceTime HD camera, fixed that some the caller M4 iMac and M4 MacBook Pro models besides debuted with the upgraded camera. The ‌machines volition get adjacent twelvemonth betwixt January and March.

M4 Mac Studio

Apple plans to refresh the Mac Studio aft the M4 MacBook Air has been released successful aboriginal 2025. It volition beryllium equipped with a saltation of the M4 processor – apt an M4 Ultra oregon Max chip. The existent exemplary comes successful some M2 Max and M2 Ultra variants. Given that the Mac mini with M4 Pro spot and Apple's latest high-end MacBook Pro models see Thunderbolt 5 ports, it's definite that the Mac Studio volition besides follow them. Mark Gurman claims that the ‌Mac Studio‌ was connected way to beryllium updated alongside the ‌MacBook Air‌, but it is present going to spot a refresh between March and June. In erstwhile reports, helium said the ‌Mac Studio‌ would travel retired successful mid-2025, truthful it is unclear what has changed.

M4 Mac Pro

Apple past updated the Mac Pro successful June 2023, adding an M2 Ultra spot and officially completing the modulation distant from Intel chips. Apple volition refresh the Mac Pro successful the summer of 2025, according to Mark Gurman. Like the Mac Studio, the adjacent Mac Pro volition skip the M3 series. Instead it volition beryllium equipped with the highest-end mentation of the M4 chip, codenamed "Hidra." Based connected the statement of the chip, it could beryllium positioned arsenic an "Ultra" oregon "Extreme" chip. Gurman has said the M4 Ultra spot successful the adjacent Mac Pro volition "probably" person up to a 32-core CPU and up to an 80-core GPU, which would beryllium treble the M4 Max's up to 16-core CPU and up to 40-core GPU. The adjacent Mac Pro is expected to diagnostic Thunderbolt 5 ports. It could besides enactment up to 512GB of memory, a notable summation implicit the existent 192GB limit.

M4 Series Performance

Like the M3, the M4 is built connected a 3nm process, but with enhancements from Apple supplier TSMC for improved show and powerfulness efficiency. The M4 besides includes an improved Neural Engine that fuels accelerated AI workloads. Apple says it is the company's astir almighty Neural Engine ever, susceptible of 38 trillion operations per second.

Geekbench 6 benchmark results person surfaced for Apple's caller M4 Pro and M4 Max chips successful the caller Mac mini and MacBook Pro models, truthful we person immoderate indications of performance. In the caller Mac mini and MacBook Pro models, the highest-end variants of the M4 Pro and M4 Max some outperform the highest-end M2 Ultra spot successful the Mac Studio and Mac Pro: The M4 Max is up to 25% faster than the M2 Ultra successful presumption of highest multi-core CPU performance. M4 Pro's awesome show gains are partially owed to the M3 Pro being a precise insignificant upgrade implicit the M2 Pro spot past year. Meanwhile, the M4 Max is up to 20% faster than the M4 Pro erstwhile it comes to highest multi-core CPU performance.

In presumption of graphics performance, Geekbench 6 results indicate that the M4 Pro and M4 Max are up to astir 40% and 25% faster for graphics than the M3 Pro and M3 Max chips, respectively. Notably, the 16-inch MacBook Pro with the highest-end M4 Max with a 40-core GPU has up to 85% arsenic accelerated graphics arsenic the Mac Studio with the highest-end M2 Ultra spot with a 76-core GPU, adjacent though it has 36 less GPU cores.
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