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Apple M3 MacBook Pro and iMac: price, release date, and how to preorder

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This may have been a somewhat low-stakes Apple event for the evening before Halloween, but even if none of these new Macs are radically different, a new generation of M-series chips is nothing to sneeze at. The $1,299 iMac shows that Apple hasn’t totally forgotten about its all-in-one desktop (even if it continues to dash … Read more

Professionals should buy Apple’s cheapest M3 MacBook Pro for one reason, and one reason only

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Apple Apple today unveiled three new Mac computers, the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros and the 24-inch iMac, all of which are powered by the company’s latest silicon advancement: the M3 chip. If you followed along with the “Scary Fast” keynote — which, fittingly, took just a fraction of the time these events typically require … Read more

The MacBook Pro is Back in Black, Now Powered with M3

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Photo: Kyle Barr / Gizmodo It’s Halloween eve, and Apple brought along a few new desktop products to bask in the dark joys of spooky season, most notably a new Space Black color for the company’s leading laptops. Gizmodo had the opportunity to trick or treat through the new M3-powered laptops and desktop PCs as … Read more

Apple October 2023 Hardware Event: MacBook Pro, iMac, M3, M3 Pro, M3 Max

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Unlike its predecessors, which are built on 5-nanometer process technology, all three new chips are now built on a 3-nanometer process—this packs more transistors into a smaller space and enhances both the speed and power efficiency of the chip. Photograph: Apple The M3 chips have a few features new to Apple silicon. The first, a … Read more

Apple’s October Scary Fast Event: Everything revealed about the new MacBook Pro, iMac and M3 chips

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It’s time for another Apple event, with a spooky twist. The company announced a surprise “Scary Fast” event last week, prompting the rumor mill to speculate that Apple would be revealing new chips to power a new lineup of Macs. As our resident Apple expert Brian Heater wrote, a new 24-inch iMac and a MacBook … Read more

Apple announces new M3 chips, cuts price of entry-level MacBook Pro

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Apple announced new PC chips, MacBook Pro laptops, and a new iMac model at an unusual night-time launch event on Monday. Ahead of the all-important holiday shopping season, the new chips will refresh Apple’s Mac lineup, which saw sales fall 7% in the June quarter in the face of a global PC sales slowdown. The … Read more

Apple may launch a new 24-inch M3 iMac and new MacBook Pros in October

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October starting to slip away, and so far, all we’ve gotten was a very confusing Apple Pencil, despite rumors of iMacs and iPads. Well, it sounds like that new 24-inch M3-powered iMac is on its way this month after all. Mark Gurman thinks so, having written in his Power On newsletter for Bloomberg today that … Read more

The 2023 M2 MacBook Air is at all-time low price right now

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