In a new report today, Bloomberg offered insight into what’s next for the Mac with the arrival of the M4 processors. I was especially struck by the details about Apple’s plans for the future of the Mac Pro and Mac Studio. Here are the conclusions.
The next Mac Pro
Apple is developing the M4 family of chips with “at least three main varieties.” There will be a basic version (codenamed Donan), a more powerful version (codenamed Brava), and a high-end chip (codenamed Hydra).
Bloomberg reports that a new Mac Pro is expected to debut “later in 2025” with an M4 chip inside. While the report doesn’t offer specific information on which chip the Mac Pro will use, it will presumably be the high-end Hydra version or at least some variant of it. There is no indication that Apple is testing or planning an M3-powered Mac Pro.
Another change for a future Mac Pro: mois re RAM. The report says the next-generation Mac Pro could support up to 512GB of unified memory, an increase from the current 192GB limit. This is still a far cry from the previous generation Intel Mac Pro, which supported up to 1.5TB of RAM.
The Mac Pro was last updated in June 2023 and is powered by the M2 Ultra processor. The Bloomberg report notes that the Mac Pro sells in fewer quantities than other Apple Macs, but “has a vocal fan base.” In response to complaints from that Mac Pro fan base, Apple is “looking to beef up that machine next year.”
The next Mac Studio
As for Mac Studio, things are a little murkier. Mac Studio was last updated in June 2023 and is available with the M2 Max or M2 Ultra processor. It has not yet been updated with an M3 chip.
Unlike the Mac Pro, however, Apple is still testing a Mac Studio with an M3 chip. The company is testing two different versions of Mac Studio right now: one with a “still-unreleased M3-era chip” and another with a “variation of the M4 Brava processor.”
It remains to be seen if Apple will eventually release a new Mac Studio with an “M3-era chip.” At the very least, we can expect to see a new version of the M4 in mid-2025.
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