Apple’s WWDC 2023 event was packed with announcements, but there were a few products that were curiously missing from the show.
Expectations for Apple’s annual WWDC event are always through the roof and, inevitably, some products we were expecting don’t get announced. WWDC 2023 wasn’t any different.
This year’s show included some massive announcements, including the new Vision Pro headset and an updated Mac Pro, but there are still a lot of products Apple hasn’t provided updates on that we could see later in the year.24-inch iMac
One of Apple’s oldest Macs at this point is the 24-inch iMac. Originally launched in 2020 when Apple introduced its M1 processor, the all-in-one desktop hasn’t seen an update since. Short of the Mac Pro, which we’ll get to shortly, this is the only Mac that still runs an M1 processor as its default option.
It’s hard to say why we haven’t seen an update yet — Apple has pushed ahead with the M2 MacBook Air, and at WWDC 2023, it even announced a 15-inch version of the MacBook Air sporting the same M2 processor. There’s a good chance that Apple just doesn’t sell a lot of iMacs, so it’s focusing on laptops more. Hopefully, desktop fans will see a 2023 iMac once the Apple M3 rolls around.Apple M3
Speaking of the M3, the processor didn’t make an appearance at the show, either. We had a good idea that the M3 wouldn’t be at the show — Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman revealed that Apple plans to launch the chip later in the year — but a new generation of processors isn’t uncharacteristic for WWDC.
We expect the processor to launch later in the year, perhaps along with new MacBook Pros and maybe a new iMac. Rumors suggest it will come with 12 CPU cores, 16 GPU cores, and 36GB of memory. That doesn’t sound like a big increase, but the chip is rumored to use a 3-nanometer manufacturing process, which should represent a large jump in performance.
