When Apple launched its M3 series of chips last year, it surprised us by putting them in the iMac and MacBook Pro instead of its top-of-the-line workhorse Macs, the Macs Pro and Studio. But they should be coming soon, and today we get a look at what they might look like.
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The Mac’s transition to Apple Silicon has been a strange, bumpy ride. Unlike the iPhone, which gets updates every fall, and the iPad, which has a very rough 18-month release cycle for most models, we’ve yet to see a pattern emerge for M-series Macs. That makes it difficult to predict what Apple’s plans are for its more esoteric models. Then again, there are some glaring gaps that Apple needs to fill on these high-end machines, if Apple hasn’t painted itself into a different corner with the Mac Pro.
"Well, the most appealing aspect of the Mac Pro is the customizability. Of course, you can only upgrade the SSD in one of those things, but you can't really do that with the Mac Studio," technology expert Daivat Dholakia told Lifewire via email.
Apple doesn’t release sales figures for individual product lines, but it seems pretty clear that people are buying a lot more laptops than desktops. So it makes a lot of sense that Apple would put the M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max chips in a laptop first, though an argument could be made for doing it the other way around: sticking the new chips in the lower-volume desktop line until chip manufacturing was up to full steam.
