we just got 100 confirmation through brand new leaks that Apple's M3 chip
isn't coming until the fall of this year the only problem with that is that the
15-inch MacBook gear is coming in June at Apple's WWDC event but with an M2
Chip instead so the big question I'm gonna answer in this video is why Apple
would do this when the M3 is right around the corner how are they going to
get away with this the answer actually makes a whole lot of sense so let's jump
right into it now the first thing I want to cover is the exclusive leak from nine
to five Mac back in March saying that both the 13 and 15 inch MacBook Air will
be using M3 chips and they even suggested that there's a chance they
could be coming at WWDC and that report from 95 Mac was directly going against
other leaks and rumors that pointed to the 15-inch coming sooner with an M2 jet
for example digit times of all sources back in February said the 15-inch will
reportedly have an M2 Chip and that was a couple of months ago when nobody
believed him we also had Ross young saying that production of 15-inch
MacBook Air components were underway with a WWDC launch looking very likely
and then just last week Mark German came out and said that the 15-inch MacBook
Air was coming at WWDC with an M2 like chip whatever that means basically he
looked at the developer logs and that chip had an 8 core CPU and a 10 core GPU
and 8 gigs of RAM just like the M2 Chip but still at that time he did not say it
would be an M2 just M2 like and then just this morning as I'm recording this
right now we had a report from a Korean blogger which is
yoix1122 out of know how to pronounce that but that's who he is he was
actually the same person who leaked the notch on the MacBook Pro so I believe in
him he says that the 15 inch is gonna feature the M2 Chip and Dan neistead
posted on Twitter that Apple has delayed their plans to introduce the M3 chip
based on three nanometer technology and will instead use the M2 for the upcoming
15-inch air basically saying that the three nanometer chip revenue for tsmc is
coming later in the third quarter and then finally after that Mark German
confirmed yes the 15-inch is getting the M2 for sure not the M3 and that came at
the same time as Ming shukuo said the 15-inch is getting the M2 with two
different chip options no M2 Pro configuration and what that basically
means is you're gonna have a bin chip with one less Graphics core and then an
unbend M2 Chip just like we have with the current 13-inch MacBook Pro and he
also confirmed that the production of the M3 chip is anticipated to begin and
the second half of this year pointing to a fall release slightly ahead of M3 Pro
and M3 Max which will likely come about six months after the regular M3 and then
on top of all of that tsmc just reported their earnings and they confirmed that
the three nanometer N3 chip Revenue will only begin in the third quarter
basically confirming that the M3 chip is not coming until the fall likely after
the a17 ship in September that's also going to be based on three nanometer
then only later in October or November that's when we're gonna get the M3 chip
and all of that basically confirms what digit times said way back in January
that a new Macbook Air with a three nanometer M3 chip is rumored to launch
in the second half of 2023. it's kind of funny that digit
times used to get laughed at but now they are correct and they were the first
ones to call it so with that said now that we have confirmation that the
15-inch MacBook Air is coming at WWDC with an M2 Chip here is my personal
prediction that 15 inch is gonna to be identical to the current 13-inch M2
redesigned model except for basically three differences the larger 15 inch
display a larger battery which will give it the best battery life in any MacBook
ever which is how Apple's gonna Market it and larger speaker enclosures for
probably better bass and volume in terms of speaker quality and maybe blue 5.3
and Wi-Fi 6E as well but other than that it's going to be identical and it's
simply going to be 200 more expensive than the 13 inch model you're paying for
the larger size so with that said why in the world would Apple give the brand new
15-inch MacBook Air the old M2 Chip just six months before giving the M3 to the
13 inch well I have three very good reasons that explain everything the
first reason is that the 15 inch with an M3 chip would directly threaten the
sales of the two thousand dollar M2 Pro MacBook Pro 14 inch and the main reason
for that is because I estimated the performance of the M3 chip and it would
likely outperform the base Bend tan core M2 Pro chip model so why would you pay
two thousand dollars for a 14 inch when you can pay a thousand four hundred for
a bigger 15 inch display and a faster M3 chip giving it the older M2 would put
the whole lineup into balance and make it clear that the 14 inch M2 Pro is
better and now for reason number two apple has a massive surplus of M2 chips
that just aren't selling and in order to sell through their stock they're going
to be making a couple of extra Max with M2 chips including the 15 inch MacBook
Air and how do I know this well we recently got a report that Apple's Max
sales dropped 40 percent compared to last year the worst drop in 23 years and
the way we know they have a massive Surplus is because Apple literally
stopped M2 Chip production entirely for two whole months in January and February
and when they resume production in March it was cut in half compared to previous
years and now now we have reason number three for why apple is giving the 15
inch an M2 Chip Apple's Mac chips are clearly on a 1.5 year update cycle
compared to Apple's a series chips which get updated every single year so even if
Apple could have had the M3 chip ready on time for WWDC they wouldn't anyway
because it hasn't been one and a half years yet and the main point of this is
to allow the current mship more time to sell and allow their Engineers more time
to work on future M chips so apple is essentially stretching the life cycle of
their Mac Generations which is a very smart business move so there you go
those were the three reasons why it actually makes sense for Apple to give
the 15-inch MacBook Air and M2 Chip now of course that sucks for us consumers
because if they gave it the M3 you would essentially get a fourteen hundred
dollar 15 inch MacBook Air here with a very fast M3 chip that's faster than the
base 14 inch MacBook Pro for two thousand dollars that would be amazing
but of course apple does not want to cannibalize their higher end MacBook Pro
lineup and because of that they're giving us the 15 inch with the M2 Chip
to sell off that huge surplus of those chips so hopefully that explained it for
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