Apple could also be testing an M3 Mac Mini

Apple might have a Mac Mini powered by its new M3 chip within the works for 2024, in accordance with Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in his Energy On publication at the moment. Gurman says Apple is now testing a pc at its campus underneath mannequin identifier Mac 15,12, however whether or not it is a Mac Mini is his hypothesis.

Gurman says the corporate is testing an eight-core CPU and a 10-core GPU Mac with 24GB RAM that’s operating macOS Sonoma 14.1. These specs are much like the bottom mannequin M2 Mac Mini, aside from the reminiscence put in — up to now, entry-level Apple silicon Macs have began at 8GB RAM. (I wouldn’t learn something into that although; it could be very shocking if Apple jumped to 24GB for the bottom mannequin.)

Gurman factors out that in Apple’s earnings name, the corporate stated it anticipated a double-digit decline in Mac income within the fourth quarter of this yr, and Gurman reiterates that he doesn’t anticipate any M3-powered Macs to return earlier than the primary fiscal quarter of 2024 begins in October.

That brings the whole anticipated M3 Macs as much as six and covers all the firm’s main desktops and laptops, together with the iMac, which is anticipated to see its first refresh since 2021 quickly. Unsurprisingly, Gurman doesn’t but appear to anticipate M3 variations of the Mac Studio and Mac Professional, each of which solely made the leap to Apple’s M2 silicon this yr at WWDC. In the event you haven’t but, take a look at our evaluations for the 2023 Mac Studio and 2023 Mac Professional.