Apple held its third-quater earnings call this week, and it looks like things went pretty well overall. Total revenue was $85 billion, up around 5% year-over-year, and the Mac managed to go up 2% year-over-year as well, bringing in just over $7 billion. But a comment from the Q&A section of the call suggests that the company isn’t expecting any bumps in Mac revenue for the rest of the year and, as MacRumors suggests, this could be code for “no new MacBook.”
After being pressed for clarification on product revenue expectations for the September quarter, Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri commented:
“We’re not going into other categories … Keep in mind on the Mac that we will have a challenging [quarter compared] from a year ago, given the fact that we launched, and we had the full quarter impact of the launch of the MacBook Air 15-inch.”
Put a little more simply, this means the Mac revenue for the later quarters of last year was particularly high because Apple had just launched the new MacBook Air M3 — and this year might look a little disappointing in comparison. It’s possible that Maestri is making the point that Apple saw a larger bump in revenue from the 15-inch MacBook Air than it expects from the upcoming M4 MacBook Pro.
On the other hand, this comment could easily be interpreted that the M4 MacBook Pro has been pushed to 2025. This would be odd, especially since that would mean the iPad Pro would be the only M4 device released this year.
However, it’s clear in the call that the questioner was asking for more information than Maestri was willing to provide. Apple obviously doesn’t want to simply leak its plans for the rest of the year, so although the comments imply there won’t be a new MacBook Pro this year, nothing is set in stone.
The absolutely absurd idea of putting a touchscreen display on a mouse isn't exactly new. Turtle Beach already did it with its Command Series MC7, which features a 2.25-inch control screen. But apparently, even that wasn't ridiculous enough for Arctic Fox Technologies. Its new Super Mouse looks like someone took the chunky old Atari ST mouse, slapped a touchscreen and scroll wheel on it, and called it an upgrade.
The result is a rather unusual-looking mouse that is now on Kickstarter, starting at $199. And as ridiculous as it looks, some of its features are genuinely intriguing.
Apple is less than a day away from launching its highly anticipated OLED MacBook Pro with a touch-sensitive screen. But it appears that the upgrade is going to cost a pretty penny. According to a report by Bloomberg, Apple is reportedly eyeing a starting price of $2,899 for the 14-inch MacBook Pro, while the 16-inch version could start at $3,399 in the US.
"At $2,899, the 14-inch model would mark the highest starting price for a new MacBook Pro model, surpassing the $2,799 Apple charged for a 17-inch version introduced in 2006," says the report. The report claims that Apple is targeting a minimum price hike of $400 for its upcoming redesigned 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models.
I've spent a good amount of time digging into the spec sheet of the new M6 MacBook Pro (14-inch), and for all intents and purposes, this is a classic Apple "chip and connectivity" refresh. It's not a full redesign. The chassis, Liquid Retina XDR panel, speakers, ports, and battery, all of them carry over unchanged.
However, the M6 brings more cores, stronger on-device AI, higher memory bandwidth on the larger configs, and modern wireless. Here’s the practical rundown of what actually improved, and whether those gains are worth your money.