When new merchandise launch, Apple followers in Australia and New Zealand are all the time the primary to get their palms on up to date gadgets due to their time zone. It’s Tuesday, November 7 in these two international locations, which implies prospects who ordered a brand new M3 MacBook Professional or iMac at the moment are starting to obtain their shipments.
Apple prospects will quickly be sharing pictures and first impressions of the New Macs on Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, and the MacRumors boards. In case you’ve acquired a brand new Mac, make sure that to tell us your ideas within the feedback under!
Apple launched the brand new Macs at its “Scary Quick” occasion on October 30, which was the primary nighttime occasion that Apple has held. Apple debuted the M3-series chips, and it additionally marked the primary time that commonplace, Professional, and Max Apple silicon chips have been launched on the similar time.
The 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Professional fashions will be bought with the M3, M3 Professional, or M3 Max chip, whereas the 24-inch iMac has the M3. At present’s orders will function the M3 and M3 Professional machines, because the MacBook Professional fashions with M3 Max had supply dates starting from November 9 to November 13 when Apple first started accepting orders. We cannot see prospects with the preliminary M3 Max MacBook Professional orders till later this week.
Apple made no design updates to the MacBook Professional or the iMac when it refreshed the chips inside. The MacBook Professional fashions additionally acquired a minor show replace to extend the SDR brightness by 100 nits, whereas the iMac additionally bought assist for Wi-Fi 6E, extra most reminiscence, and Bluetooth 5.3.
Constructed on 3-nanometer expertise, the M3 chips have a next-generation GPU with assist for hardware-accelerated ray tracing and mesh shading, together with Dynamic Caching for improved GPU utilization. In line with Apple, the M3, M3 Professional, and M3 Max chips are as much as 50 % sooner than the M2, M2 Professional, and M2 Max chips.
New Zealand doesn’t have any Apple retail shops, so prospects in Australia would be the first to have the ability to choose up one of many new Macs in an Apple Store. We’re not anticipating provide shortages, and the up to date machines ought to be available for individuals who need one. Observe that Apple Shops supply inventory configurations, so prospects who need to improve the reminiscence, SSD, or chip might want to order a customized machine on-line.
Following New Zealand and Australia, gross sales and deliveries of the brand new Macs will kick off in Asia, the Center East, Europe, Africa, and at last, North and South America. Ensure to remain tuned to MacRumors as a result of we’ll have a hands-on and unboxing tomorrow, in addition to deeper appears to be like on the efficiency of the brand new machines.