Apple could be en route to launch four new MacBook models, complete with M3 chips, in 2024.
Per Mark Gurman’s latest “Power On” newsletter, the writer states that new 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro models featuring the M3 Pro and M3 Max chips have now reached design validation testing (DVT), meaning that the devices are nearing mass production. He said he believes that progress on the new machines indicates that they are likely to launch between early 2024 and the spring, which would mirror the approximate time frame in which the M2 Pro and M2 Max MacBook Pro models launched earlier this year.
Gurman also noted that the new 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Air notebooks with M3 chips are rumored to have reached engineering verification testing (EVT), which works as an earlier production testing phase on prototype devices. It’s thought that this would put the next-gen MacBook Air models on schedule for launch between spring and summer of 2024 at the earliest, which could also mirror the time frame of the current models’ launches that took place at WWDC in June 2022 and 2023.
Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.