Updated 24-inch iMac unlikely to be announced until ‘end of this year at the earliest’

Bloomberg’s Mark Guman has suggested that Apple won’t update the 24-inch iMac “until the tail end of this year at the earliest or next year,” suggesting that the machine will feature an all-new M3 chip.

Writing in his weekly “Power On” newsletter, Gurman says Apple’s next-generation M3 chip, expected to debut on the new iMac and a future upgraded MacBook Air will offer performance and power efficiency improvements over the base M2 chip, built using the latest 3-nanometer process.

This isn’t the first time that Gurman has suggested that Apple’s next iMac won’t launch until late 2023 or 2024, with today’s report echoing what the insider said in January, at the time reporting that the new M3 24-inch iMac likely won’t bring any significant design changes over the 2021 M1 model, which received a major redesign over the previous Intel-based iMac lineup in 2021, launching with a much more compact and thin design and a range of colors.

Last year, Gurman said he expected the new M3 24-inch iMac to come in 2023, with the reporter now saying the machine likely won’t debut “until late 2023 or 2024 at the earliest,” suggesting the machine could make a debut in October when Apple typically announces updates to the Mac lineup, or in spring 2024, which would mark three years since the original M1 model was introduced.