Overview
- Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman said Sunday that Apple now expects the next Mac Studio to ship around October 2026 and the redesigned OLED touchscreen MacBook Pro to land in early 2027.
- Reporters attribute the delays to an industry-wide crunch in DRAM and NAND flash, with AI data centers soaking up vast amounts of RAM and solid‑state storage.
- Apple’s desktop lineup shows the strain as current Mac Studio models face long shipping times and some higher‑memory options have disappeared from online ordering.
- Software work is not the holdup, as macOS 27’s touch features are on track for fall, which signals that hardware component availability is the limiting factor.
- Coverage notes Apple could manage demand by keeping M5 MacBook Pros on sale while introducing the OLED touch model as a pricier tier, a move that would spread constrained memory supply and temper wait times for pro users.