Apple's Scary Fast occasion takes area on October 30: New M3-powered Macs expected

Apple has just announced a brand new product occasion with the intention to take place on October 30th at 8pm ET / 5pm PT. The Cupertino corporation may be livestreaming "Scary Fast," wherein it is expected to show updates to the iMac and MacBook Pro line.

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman wrote in his Power On letter this week that Apple iMacs and MacBook Pros are in short deliver, suggesting a refresh is at the manner. The all-in-one iMac turned into remaining up to date in April 2021 whilst the M1-powered version arrived.

All 3 sizes of MacBook Pro have also seen their inventories reduce, suggesting the laptops are due for a refresh. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes that the devices will percent Apple's next-gen M3 chips, that could explain the occasion's Scary Fast call.

The new MacBook Pros could be arriving simply eleven months after the refreshed M2 Macs, which released in January. But based on the statement video's URL, those fashions have been likely meant to arrive in overdue 2022 earlier than being not on time slightly.

It's predicted that the M3 chips - likely general, Pro, and Max versions - will be built on the equal 3nm TSMC process as Apple's A17 Pro chip used within the iPhone 15 Pro. Packing more CPU and GPU cores into the SoCs than the preceding generations is also a probability.

Elsewhere, Kuo and Gurman both agree with that Apple may be going against way of life by using no longer revealing any new iPads this October. Apple is hoping an overhaul of the iPad Pro will help improve tablet income that have been gradual because the pandemic, however the analysts assume the primary important update might not come till subsequent yr while the M3-powered MacBook Air is likewise rumored to release.

It's been a hectic 2d 1/2 of 2023 for Apple. The Wonderlust event in September unveiled the iPhone 15/Pro collection, the first iPhones to function USB-C ports. And it changed into just a few weeks in the past when Cupertino released its first new Apple pencil in 5 years, one that adds USB-C but sacrifices some capabilities.