Update October 15 with MacBook Pro stock levels, and leaked MacBook Pro specification details from Russia.

Later this month, Apple will launch three new MacBooks. These will ship with the latest M4 Apple Silicon chipsets and, much like the recent iPhone launch, will place a heavy burden on the platform to deliver a successful generative AI experience to the faithful Apple community.

Yet, while all the attention is on the MacBook Pro line-up in general and the entry-level M4-powered MacBook Pro, the real game changer has yet to arrive. If consumers are looking for the macOS laptop best suited to their needs, they should wait.

Update: Sunday October 13: Apple is facing an unprecedented hardware leak this weekend with several M4-powered MacBook Pro going on sale through Russian classified sites. The models come with 512 GB of storage and 16 GB of RAM. That’s a step up in memory from the frankly anaemic 8 GB or RAM found in the current entry-level MacBook Pro with its M3 chipset.