Apple’s M4 Macs could launch ahead of Black Friday – and cheapest models might finally come with 16GB RAM

Rumored on-sale date is November 1, and if we’re lucky, MacBook Pro 14-inch might have 16GB on entry-level model

News By Darren Allan published 7 October 2024

Apple’s rumored batch of M4 Macs could be with us shortly, and these machines might launch later in October, and go on sale soon thereafter according to the latest from the rumor mill.

This is more from Mark Gurman, a respected Apple leaker who spills gossip regularly via a weekly newsletter, the latest chatter from which insists that Macs with M4 chips will be revealed towards the end of October, and at least some of those devices are set to go on sale come November 1.

As previously rumored, the M4-toting hardware to be launched includes an entry-level MacBook Pro 14-inch, alongside higher-end models of that 14-inch laptop, and high-end MacBook Pro 16-inch flavors too (nothing on the lower-end in the latter case).

There’s also an iMac M4 on the horizon, and a redesigned, more compact, Mac mini with options for the M4 or M4 Pro chips (and also a new iPad mini M4).

More M4 Macs are coming next year, as Gurman has already told us, likely MacBook Air 13-inch and 15-inch models, which are set to arrive at some point in the first half of 2025. Previously, Gurman has hinted these could debut in Q1 of 2025, but that prediction isn’t made in this latest newsletter (possibly because it’s a whole raft of products the leaker is talking about here, including accessories, so launch timings may be a bit all over the place across the board).

Those laptops will supposedly be followed by a refreshed Mac Studio with M4 CPU (long-awaited by some folks) which could arrive around the middle of 2025, towards the start of H2 – so that might be July or August – and then a Mac Pro M4 will follow later in the second half of next year.

Also in late 2025, we can expect the first generation of M5 Macs, Gurman believes, meaning Apple will maintain its current cadence with its range of computers – this would presumably include the MacBook Pro M5 models, and maybe more.

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