After the discharge of the M3 iPad Air and an upgraded base-model iPad, it appears Apple plans to launch the long-anticipated MacBook Air with an M4 chip tomorrow. Nevertheless, this won’t be the one new Mac unveiled this week.

In response to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the discharge of a brand new Mac Studio is “imminent.” Nevertheless, whereas this new mannequin will characteristic the brand new M4 Max chip, it can really get the unreleased M3 Extremely processor as a substitute of the M4 Extremely choice we’d expect.

Right here’s what he stated on X: “It’s not an ‘Air’ — however the brand new Mac Studio, codenamed J575, seems to be imminent. It might be introduced as early as this week together with the brand new MacBook Airs. There are indicators these will include an M4 Max however that its new Extremely chip will really be an M3 Extremely.”

Whereas Apple has launched M1 Extremely and M2 Extremely iterations of the Mac Studio, it will be odd if the brand new technology doesn’t observe swimsuit with the newest Extremely processor or if Apple launches an M3 choice that is perhaps higher in some duties however on par with others compared the M4 Max choice.

Gurman offers an fascinating rationalization for why Apple would possibly add an unreleased M3 Extremely processor as a substitute of the M4 Extremely variant we count on: “With an M3 Extremely going into the Mac Studio, Apple may differentiate from the Mac Professional, which may then get the M4 Extremely. Proper now, the Mac Studio and Mac Professional oddly each have the M2 Extremely and similar total efficiency.”

That being stated, Apple may make a future Mac Professional the one laptop with the corporate’s greatest chip. Whereas this is smart, I’d assume Apple could be planning to revamp the Mac Professional to make it engaging to skilled customers, because it doesn’t at the moment characteristic the modularity of its predecessor.