r/apple • u/iMacmatician • 2d ago

Rumor OLED MacBook Pro Won't Get M7 Chips Until Late 2027

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/10/15/macbook-pro-m7-late-2027/

Apple is "pretty much done" with M6 chips, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reiterated today on his podcast. Apple debuted the M6 chip in the Mac mini and has plans for an M6 iMac and entry-level 14-inch MacBook Pro, but the company is not planning to make M6 Pro, M6 Max, or M6 Ultra chips.

Apple will instead go from the M5 Pro, M5 Max, and M5 Ultra to the M7 lineup. The upcoming OLED ‌MacBook Pro‌ models will use the same M5 Pro and M5 Max chips Apple uses in the current ‌MacBook Pro‌ models, with no chip upgrade planned until 2027. The M5 Pro and M5 Max came out in March.

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u/Render_Distance 2d ago

My M1 Pro can wait until 2027 :)

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u/AirportGullible5807 2d ago

M1 silicon is probably the best product released by any tech company in the last 20 years

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u/pepperoni-steve 2d ago

The 1080Ti is a close second. A friend of mine that works at Nvidia calls it “the best card they’ve ever released.“

This was three or four years ago, but no other card they released since has been such a giant leap in performance. 

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u/Kind_Silver_1921 1d ago

I had a gtx 1070 it had 8gb vram (in 2016 was good for mid range) and cost under $400 1080ti lasted longer but bang for the buck I think my 1070 was better and hands down the best purchase I ever made

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u/Mountain-Rain-1744 1d ago

I think the 4090 might be close in terms of longevity when all is said and done.

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u/Knaj910 1d ago

The 12vhpwr connector disagrees

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u/nsfdrag Apple Cloth 1d ago

Is that a requirement? My 3090 just uses 3 (I think) 8-pin connectors instead but it is an rog strix, can other manufacturers use alternate power methods on the 4090?

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u/SteveJavieWasRight 1d ago

The only issue with the 1080 is how many features that came out soon after it didn’t support. The Apple silicon hasn’t had that issue if only because Apple hasn’t been productive with ai software

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u/goldblumspowerbook 1d ago

Seriously, when is this laptop going to start feeling old? I’ve never not wanted to buy a new computer before.

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u/bronfmanhigh 1d ago

if I had been smarter with my initial RAM upgrades I don’t think I’d ever feel my M1 Pro is underpowered.

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u/goldblumspowerbook 1d ago

I got lucky—mine was a work laptop bought with an excessive grant so I got to trick it out.

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u/InvestmentActuary 1d ago

im using a 2017 mbp and it is still fast af and like new

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u/MangyCanine 1d ago

Apple will eventually stop supporting it. That just happened to my ancient 2019 intel MacBook Pro, and I’m now thinking about a replacement (yes, yes I know — most people would have long ago switched to a newer M model — but I’m ok with what I have).

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u/slickvibez 15h ago

Lemme enter the discussion with the M1 base air

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u/uscdigital 2d ago

Same but m5 looks even juicier with this news.

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u/Render_Distance 2d ago

Just be patient. 2027 is only like 3-4 years away. Time flies!

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u/uscdigital 2d ago

Haha. Thanks Render

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u/bottom 2d ago

My last mbp last me 9 years as an editor.

I want to upgrade as less often as possible.

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u/Typical_house23 1d ago

I still remember, when I bought my first ever Mac. The MacBook Air m1 8/256gb, it felt like I was using a device straight out of the year 2040.

The speed, battery life, and power.

Never thought it could get better than this, that was until I bought the Mac mini m6 32/1tb. The difference between the m1 and m6 is big.

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u/yukeake 1d ago

My work M1 Pro is due for updating this year, but aside from being a little lean on memory (16GB doesn't go quite as far as it used to) it's still going strong ::knocks on available wood::. If there's no M6 Pro on the horizon, I'll count on it holding out for the M7 Pro.

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u/LoganNolag 1d ago

Yep same with my M1 Max.

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u/Prize_Let3241 2d ago

M6 Pro just joined iPhone 9 and Windows 9 in the Hall of Skipped Numbers.

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u/BurninCoco 2d ago

Because 9 means No in German. My uncle Tim worked at apple and told me.

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u/Appropriate_Ad8734 1d ago

Tim Apple ❌

Tim Uncle ✅

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u/WholesomeCirclejerk 2d ago

M6

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*flips monitor *

9W

¡pǝɯɹᴉɟuoɔ 6 sʍopuᴉM

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u/Ill-Passenger-1745 2d ago

Damn that means M100 is still far out

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u/Nkrth 2d ago edited 1d ago

You know what, m8? I will wait for M8.

Joking asides, M8 will be the chip to have DDR6LPDDR6 which should have double memory bandwidth, resulting in major performance upflit for everything, specially graphics and AI tasks.

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u/reallynotnick 2d ago

Apple uses LPDDR, and in theory they could use LPDDR6 with the M7 lineup. (Idk if they will, but it’ll be well into mass production)

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u/Nkrth 1d ago

Like you said Apple uses LPDDR specifically LPDDR-X. LPDDR6 production has already started but LPDDR6X that Apple uses will be available late 2027 or early 2028.

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u/RobotBananaSplit 1d ago

Yea lowkey I was thinking about m7 as the gen I will upgrade from my M1 Max but with these increasing prices and my old MacBook still working well I might as well wait another year

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u/WhiteBat_8416 1d ago

and triple the price

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u/FollowingFeisty5321 2d ago

When they announced the M6 Pro and Max were cancelled in lieu of "rushing" to M7 Pro/Max I always expected it was actually just a cost-cutting measure in light of extreme TSMC demand. With this update it looks like there is zero rushing at all and they are sticking to their routine schedule.

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u/vrmvavoom 2d ago

Usually the Pro/Max chips are a few months after the regular version, so launching the M7 Pro/Max next fall would be ahead of their usual schedule.

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u/FollowingFeisty5321 2d ago 
M1 Pro / Max    October, 2021 
M2 Pro / Max    January, 2023 
M3 Pro / Max    November, 2023 
M4 Pro / Max    November, 2024 
M5 Pro / Max    March, 2026

The M7 Pro/Max at the end of next year would be right on schedule if, prior to the supply chain disruptions and inconveniences, the plan was:

M5 Pro / Max    November, 2025
M6 Pro / Max    November, 2026 
M7 Pro / Max    November, 2027

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u/vrmvavoom 2d ago

But then bear in mind the regular chip schedule:

M1 - November 2020
M2 - June 2022
M3 - November 2023
M4 - May 2024
M5 - October 2025
M6 - August 2026

Only the M3 Pro/Max launched alongside their regular variants. Everything else was months later, so I don't think M5 Pro/Max were ever intended to be November 2025, and I wouldn't have expected a hypothetical M6 Pro/Max until spring.

(Of course, there's a bit of variation in general, such as M4 launching so soon after M3, or M6 launching before its equivalent A-chip.)

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u/LoganNolag 1d ago

Maybe they're trying to bring the models into sync? I always found it strange that they would release the base model processors before the Pro/Max ones since it meant that for several months if you bought a Pro/Max psychologically it felt like you were getting an out of date processor. It would make more sense to release the Pro/Max first and then the base model later although really it would make the most sense to release them all at the same time.

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u/Gon_Snow 1d ago

Makes me feel a bit better about the M5 Pro I just bought. I don’t think I need an oled display and to pay so much more for it. If it’s the same price I’ll feel bad

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u/Comprehensive_Web279 1d ago

Bought an M5 Pro refurbished from Apple in mid-June and was a bit nervous the timing was bad. Looking back, I appreciate it every single day. It’s more than enough power for work. The only thing is gaming (TF3 now and then), where it gets loud and hot pretty quickly. Anyone got tips for that?

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u/ratudio 1d ago

i wonder there they address burn in with oled aside doing some shift of the pixel specially the static images like top and bottom panel

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u/WFlumin8 4h ago

What? iPhones/ipads/and especially Apple Watches already have OLED screens. Apple Watches are 24/7 static OLED screens. This is not new tech to Apple.

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u/MrRonski16 1d ago

So they are launching new MacBooks with the same chips?

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u/JohnGarmin 1d ago

It must be so boring working for Macrumors these days

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u/BroadIntroduction575 1d ago

There’s obviously a lot more going into it than this, but their decision feels targeted to drive up sales. Get a big tranche of people upgrading for the new body, then a year later get the rest of the M1 era holdouts to upgrade because YoY performance is +40% since we went from M5 to M7. I’m not mad about the strategy, just rationalizing.

I’ll probably be buying the base 16 OLED M5 Pro model on the used market after the M7 models comes out and the price drops.

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u/freeformz 1d ago

Called it (amongst friends)

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u/applejuice1984 1d ago

Water is wet?

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u/ENaC2 12h ago

Eh, my M1 Pro can prolly go another year.

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u/M337ING 2d ago

This is news?

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u/listerinewash 2d ago

Yeah cuz they usually do pro and max chips every generation