When Apple unveiled this year’s refresh of the iPad Pro, the fruit brand made the surprise announcement that these will be powered by the latest M4 chips. While it was the first time the new chips got to the company’s tablets before its Mac range, it was a matter of time before the latter category of products got their turns. And said turn may be as soon as October, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.
This comes via the weekly Power On newsletter, which also made claims of the annual iPhone launch event happening on 10 September. In it, Gurman says that testing for the M4 Mac hardware has been ramped up, with four distinct identifiers, 16,1, 16,2, 16,3 and 16,10 showing up in developer test logs.
While unspecified, three of these are noted to have 10 CPU cores and 10 GPU cores, with the remaining one having eight of each. The former category is said to be similar in config to the iPad Pro M4, having four performance cores an six efficiency cores. Once again, the latter is evenly split in this regard, having four of each CPU core type.
The newsletter also notes that these four Mac models have only a choice of between 16GB or 32GB of RAM. That being said, it remains unclear if this applies to all of the Mac models being released in October. After all, these memory choices are only for the four devices that appeared in the developer test logs. Cited is a prior report which notes that “a smaller Mac mini, new MacBook Pros and updated iMacs with M4 chips are coming later this year“.
(Source: Bloomberg)
