With the news that "Apple Reportedly 'Just Started Formal Development' of M4 MacBook Pro" do you guys think we can expect M4 macbooks this October? The article has Late 2024/2025 ETA, but given M3 macbook pros were released last October, are we expecting the same timeline?
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MacBook Pro M4 release year
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I don't think we will see m4 MacBook pros this year.. They haven't gotten around to putting the m3 in the entire lineup yet... I can see m4 going to the studio and Mac Pro first this go around.. Maybe by spring next year.. they will be in the MacBook pros
Hope soon. Don't you feel the current form factor is 20 years old? My old Macbook Pro 2015 has all the ports, SD, fan etc and looks much better (thinner). What makes the current Macbook Pro lineup so thick? What is the component that they did not manage to make slimmer? It should look like the MBP 2020 M1 with the etra ports.
My 2022 (M2 Max) MBP is definitely not thicker than my 2015 Intel MBP was. It also has significantly better battery life, performance, display, and runs cool as a cucumber under virtually every use case.
In actuality, the 2015 13" & 15" MBP both had a thickness of 0.71 inch (1.8 cm). In contrast, both the M2 and M3 14" MBPs have a thickness of 0.61 inch (1.55 cm). The 16" models (again for both M2 and M3) are only 0.66 inch (1.68 cm) thick, which is still thinner than the 2015 model. This is all pulled directly from Apple's technical specification pages for the respective models of MacBook Pro.
Thanks, interesting, IMHO the fact that the latest MBP is not ticker than the old 2015 MBP but looks much boxier and thicker means that Apple got something wrong, just my opinion. Probably the tapered edges make the old MBP look much slimmer even if it isn't. The MB Air looks so much better than the latest MBP.
PS Of course I am not disputing that the latest MBP is a much better machine than a 2015 MBP
The M3 line of chips is pretty expensive for Apple to make and I believe they will want to move to a new process (N3E or N3P) as soon as possible. I'm thinking late this year, definitely by next spring. I think it will mostly just be a spec bump and the next meaningful change to the devices will come with the OLED panels probably late 2025 or 2026.