The new iPad Pro won’t be the only Apple device to feature the M4 chip. Plans of the company from Cupertino Completely upgrade your Mac lineup integrate this new chip – and other variants of it – into all currently available models to give them artificial intelligence features, among other benefits.
This was stated by Mark Gurman from Bloombergin a post on Mac miniupdated iMac and new MacBook Pro with M4 chip the ends of the same year.
However, it is unclear which processor will be included in the different models. It’s likely that both the Mac mini and iMac will be updated with the same processor included in the iPad Pro announced just a few days ago, while the MacBook Pro could arrive with the slightly more powerful M4 Pro chip. Anyway, It wouldn’t be strange to see a MacBook Pro with a standard M4.. In fact, Apple offers an option with an M3 chip for current Pro laptops.
What about the rest of Apple’s Macs? Gurman says the company could update MacBook Air with M4 chip in the spring of 2025. This makes sense considering Apple just announced new MacBook Airs with M3 processors. Only at the end of 2025 will we see new Mac Pro and Mac Studio with M4 Pro and M4 Ultra chips.
So the list will be as follows.
- Mac mini with M4: end of 2024.
- iMac with M4: end of 2024.
- MacBook Pro with M4: end of 2024.
- MacBook Air with M4: spring 2025.
- Mac Pro with M4: end of 2025.
- Mac Studio with M4: end of 2025.
M4 chip coming to Mac is ready for AI
Actually, one of the main improvements M4 chip, is its ability to perform more complex artificial intelligence tasks. To achieve this, the company included in this processor updated neural engine capable of performing 38 billion operations per second, allowing processes such as object recognition or real-time translation to run completely smoothly.
Additionally, Apple is expected to introduce new artificial intelligence features in macOS 15, the next version of the operating system for Mac. The rumors highlight that the company will be working on an alternative to Google’s ChatGPT and Gemini, as well as integrating artificial intelligence into Spotlight, the search engine integrated into its operating systems, and into apps like Apple Music or your office suite.
Source: Hiper Textual
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