Bloomberg has laid out Apple’s Mac roadmap stretching into 2028, and there is barely a quiet month in it.
The near-term stuff first. An entry level MacBook Pro running the new M6 chip is planned before the end of this year, with fresh iMacs in the same window. The far more interesting machine is the MacBook Ultra, the one with an OLED touchscreen in 14 and 16 inch sizes, running M5 Pro and M5 Max chips. That one is tracking for the end of this year or early next, and here is the tell on timing: it is being tested on macOS 27.1, which is not arriving until the end of October, so the hardware is not launching a day before that.
Then 2027 gets busy. An updated MacBook Air early in the year, a redesigned entry level MacBook Pro on the M7 later, and a new MacBook Neo running the A19 Pro, an iPhone chip inside a laptop, which is Apple quietly building its cheapest MacBook yet and planning to refresh it periodically with new colours like it refreshes phones.
A Mac mini with M5 Pro and base M6 chips is in testing too, alongside Mac Studio models on M5 Max and M5 Ultra, but their timing is hostage to the memory chip supply situation, which surprises no one who has watched RAM prices lately. And the OLED march continues after all that, a MacBook Air with an OLED screen possibly in 2028, an OLED iMac following behind.
The roadmap says one thing loudly. Apple is not slowing the Mac line down, it is stacking it.
