Apple tested an ultra m3 M3 variant of the MacBook Pro, according to a iOS 18 code leak.
Details on an unprecedented MacBook Pro configuration have surfaced on Chinese social networks, which suggests that Apple may have evaluated a version with the M3 Ultra chip.
The current 14 -inch MacBook Pro and the 16 -inch MacBook Pro are available with the Apple M4 chip range, including M4, M4 Pro and M4 Max. The same can be said for their counterparts in the M3 series, but a new leak suggests that there may have been a fourth configuration provided.
Friday, a message on the Chinese website Bilibili Detailed some iphone, iPad and Mac configurations abandoned. The author of the position lists the derived observations of the operating system of a pre-production prototype of the iPhone 16.
These devices can and often contain references to unprecedented equipment.
Among other things, the flight affirms that the first IOS 18 code refers to two unpublished MacBook Pro variants – J514D and J516D. Since the M3 PRO and M3 MAX MAX versions of the MacBook Pro carry the identifiers of the device J514M and J516C, the existence of an ultra M3 variant seems plausible.
The leak notes that Apple’s high -end Mac configurations use the “D” suffix to indicate the use of an “ultra” chip. The M3 Ultra Mac studio, for example, is known in Apple under the name of J575D, while the slightly lower M4 M4 M4 variant uses the J575C identifier.
The M3 Ultra is currently one of Apple’s most powerful chips. The chip system supports up to 512 GB of unified memory and can be configured with a 32 core CPU as an impressive 80 core GPU.
The Mac Studio is a desktop computer with a relatively massive heat sink and a fan. As designed, a MacBook Pro with the same chip would probably be confronted with problems of thermal or energy consumption, similar to the heat problems that the late Intel models had.
Friday’s flight notes that Apple abandoned his plans for a PowerBook G5 over 20 years ago due to similar problems.
We were unable to authenticate the software channels. It may have been limited in certain places, and there is always the possibility that he was rigged.
The variants of the operating system for internal use for development devices generally include tests and files for several hardware variants, including development cards and experimental devices, as well as FPGA.
The first versions of iOS 4, for example, contained references to an unprecedented iPhone with the identifier of the N89 device, while the internal distributions of iOS 8 contained files relating to an iPad Pro put to the Apple A8X chip, nicknamed J98 and J99.
Friday’s leak mentions this specific configuration of the abandoned iPad and described with precision the inscriptions found on the prototype equipment. It also lists the known versions of the Apple internal use software, in particular the Purplestore 3 Tool, which is used to install operating system distributions. This brings a certain credibility to the flight, which, if not, has no established stories.
