During its Scary Fast product event last night, Apple officially unveiled its new M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max chips. The company is positioning the M3 chips as major upgrades over its M1 hardware – if you bought an M2 system, you’re probably not eager for a replacement just yet.
The M3’s GPU is the biggest step forward, offering new features such as hardware-accelerated ray tracing and mesh shading, allowing for more realistic lighting and better geometry handling. If you like chip architecture and other fun activities, the M3 chips are also notable for being the first PC chips built on a three-nanometer process; Both the M1 and M2 families are based on a 5nm process. This means more transistors packed into the same space, which helps with power efficiency, as well as providing better overall performance. The M3 series will be present in the refreshed 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros (more on that below), as well as the 24-inch iMac.
That new chip will make the new iMac up to twice as fast as its predecessor, but there aren’t too many upgrades elsewhere in the latest Mac. Apple is sticking with a 4.5K Retina display, for example. There are some useful changes on the connectivity front, now with support for Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3. The new iMac starts at $1,299 and ships on November 7.
-Mat Smith
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