A Russian categorized advertisements web site has reportedly listed not one, however lots of the purportedly leaked M4 MacBook Professional fashions but to be launched by Apple.
First there was a declare in September 2024 {that a} person in Russia had an unreleased M4 MacBook Professional. Then the identical mannequin gave the impression to be proven on YouTube, once more by Russian customers. Now it is reported that the gadget had been put up on the market on Avito, with a number of items out there.
Simply as it’s nonetheless potential that the YouTube gadgets are faux, there may be some doubt over the categorized advert posting. All such listings seem to have been faraway from Avito at time of writing.
Nonetheless, as first noticed by MacRumors, customers on social media have been posting screenshots of the Avito listings.
In machine translation, the tweet says that the “yet-to-be-released MacBook Professional with the M4 chip could possibly be bought for ~$7,500 on Avito.”
What’s most important is that the itemizing was reportedly not for a single M4 MacBook Professional. As a substitute, it had some variety of them, which suggests this leak isn’t just a repeat of how the iPhone 4 received by chance left in a bar.
It isn’t clear what number of items had been provided on the market, however the implication is {that a} batch of them was intercepted. Or maybe that thieves broke into a producing plant.
Apple doesn’t at the moment do enterprise with Russia, so it will not be {that a} cargo to the nation was stolen.
The purported M4 MacBook Professional comes with three Thunderbolt ports as an alternative of two. It is coloured Area Black, and has 16GB RAM.
Individually, Apple is predicted to launch the brand new M4 MacBook Professional by the tip of October 2024. The gadgets will then be transport on November 1.