Apple Is Quietly Rebuilding Every Mac It Sells

Look at Apple's Mac lineup today, then picture the whole thing swapped out. That is roughly the plan. According to a new report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple is getting ready to refresh every single Mac it sells over the next two years, from the cheapest MacBook Air to the Mac Studio sitting under a video editor's desk. Not a spec bump here and a new color there. The entire family, top to bottom.

It is worth saying up front that this is a report, not an Apple announcement, so treat the dates and details as the best current read on Apple's plans rather than a promise. But the shape of it is easy to understand, and it tells you something about where Apple thinks the Mac is going. The short version: people are buying Macs again, a lot of them to run demanding AI work locally, and Apple wants a lineup that can meet that moment. Mac sales are reportedly on track to climb for a third year running.

The next few months

The overhaul reportedly starts this fall with two machines whose development is already finished. First is a new entry-level 14-inch MacBook Pro built around Apple's next main chip, the M6 (codename J804). Alongside it comes an iMac refresh, the first new iMac in two years, per the report (codenames J833 and J834). Both are said to be done and just waiting for their fall release window.

That is the warm-up. The headline act arrives at the end of 2026 and into early 2027: an all-new high-end MacBook in 14-inch and 16-inch sizes (codenames K114 and K116), reportedly with a fresh design and, for the first time, an OLED touchscreen. It is the model Gurman singles out as the most significant of the bunch, and it is already being tested internally on macOS 27.1, the update expected in late October. If you have been waiting for the Mac to finally feel new again, this is the one to watch.

A two-year march through the whole lineup

From there the report lays out a steady cadence. Early 2027 brings refreshed 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Air models (codenames J913 and J915). Later in 2027, the entry 14-inch MacBook Pro gets redesigned to match that new high-end look, this time with the standard M7 chip (codename K104). A follow-up high-end MacBook with M7 Pro and M7 Max chips is reportedly penciled in for the end of 2027 into early 2028.

A few pieces sit on a fuzzier timeline. The MacBook Neo is due for one of its periodic refreshes, said to move to the A19 Pro chip with more memory and some new colors, though the timing is not clear. An OLED iMac is in the plans without a firm date. And the biggest visual change to the most popular Mac, an OLED MacBook Air with a redesign, is not expected until 2028 at the earliest. So if OLED on an Air is your dealbreaker, settle in.

The desktops are stuck on supply

Two machines that plenty of pros care about are ready in the lab but hostage to parts. A new Mac mini with M5 Pro and M6 options is in testing, as is a new Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra chips. Both are reportedly waiting on memory supply before Apple can ship them, which is the unglamorous reality behind an AI boom: everyone wants the same high-capacity memory at once. Tim Cook said back in April that getting supply and demand back in balance could take several months.

Here is the honest read. A roadmap this long is exciting and easy to overpromise on, and two years is plenty of time for pieces to slip, get renamed, or quietly disappear. What matters is the through-line. Apple is treating the Mac as a growth business again instead of a mature one it babysits, and it is spreading real changes, new chips, new designs, and OLED, across every price point rather than saving them for the machines that already sell themselves. If even most of this lands close to schedule, the interesting question by 2028 will not be which Mac got the good stuff. It will be whether any of them got left behind.