Spring has arrived, and it is the season of new product launches. amazing！
Earlier, Apple employees posted photos suggesting that Apple's spring conference was being recorded. According to Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman, the conference is set for March 8, which translates to Beijing time may be in the early morning of March 9, and the iPhone SE 3 will arrive as scheduled.
The iPhone SE 3 alone obviously can't support a conference, so we've sorted out some of the more credible revelations to see what blockbuster new products Apple has prepared.
iPhone SE 3
The rumors of the iPhone SE 3 have been floating for more than a year, and the renderings are flying all over the place, making it difficult to distinguish between true and false. I believe that many people are looking forward to the new generation of iPhone SE can use the full screen design and become a cost-effective small screen flagship, just like the following.
Let's be honest, the iPhone SE 3 is unlikely to last like this. According to bloomberg Gurman, Tianfeng International analyst Guo Mingxi predicted that the iPhone SE 3 will also be the old mold of the iPhone 8: a 4.7-inch LCD display, a physical home button Touch ID. Whatever the iPhone SE 2 looks like, the SE 3 looks like.
Its most important upgrade is the network standard and chip, increase 5G network support, chip upgrade to A14 or A15, perhaps the camera specifications will be improved; the price is still 399 US dollars, the National Bank of China 3299 yuan, may also be a small discount of several hundred.
So does the full-screen iPhone SE still exist? Maybe. In the early rumors, it was called the iPhone SE Plus by Guo Mingxi and other sources, no bangs screen, no Face ID, power button Touch ID design, is expected to be released in 2021. Following the rumors, this rumored full-screen SE has been repeatedly postponed. The more likely prediction is that the LCD screen iPhone 11 will be discontinued in 2023, when this SE Plus will replace it, and the price will naturally be more expensive than the iPhone SE.
Overall, the iPhone SE is the cost-effective responsibility of the iPhone, and the best way to get started with the iPhone is to pass. For users who want to experience the Apple ecosystem at a lower price, no dual-card demand, dual-machine party, etc., the iPhone SE 3 is still worth the money.
Easter egg: iPhone thousand yuan machine?
Apple's iPhone has always been the representative of smartphone flagships, even if it is an entry-level product, the price should be in line with the high-end Android phone. Unless it is an old second-hand phone in the seafood market, the iPhone and the thousand yuan machine can't hit the eight rods. But this time, the iPhone really has the hope of turning into a thousand-dollar machine.
Gurman believes that after the release of the new iPhone SE 3, Apple will not rush to remove the previous generation of iPhone SE 2, but will continue to sell at a reduced price - starting from $199.
Let's do a simple calculation, the starting price of each generation of iPhone SE is $399, and the price of the Bank of China is 3299 yuan; the price reduction to $199 means that the "bone (five) discount" is required, and the price of the Bank of China is expected to start from 1699 or 1999 yuan.
iPhone SE 2 is equipped with a 4.7-inch LCD screen, Touch ID ancestral mold, A13 bionic processor although a little old, but the performance is not inferior to mainstream Android high-end mobile phones.
Earlier, Morgan analyst Samik Chatterjee pointed out that the iPhone SE 3 can attract half of the world's Android mobile phone users - more than 1 billion people, to replace the iPhone.
This may be a little too optimistic, the price of $399, 3299 yuan, cheap but not cheap enough. But if you really sell the iPhone SE 2 as a thousand yuan machine, it is still quite competitive. Anyway, the seventh generation of iPod Touch is still sold on Apple's official website, starting from 1599 yuan, taking the iPhone SE to replace the iPod Touch, smoothly into a chapter. Of course, the most important thing is whether Apple wants to do this.
iPad Air 5
In addition to the iPhone SE 3, another blockbuster product at Apple's spring conference is the iPad Air 5. Compared with the iPad Air 4 currently on sale, it mainly upgraded the chip (A14A15) and the cellular version of the network standard (4G 5G), incarnating the iPad mini "Plus". Whether the A15 on the iPad Air 5 will also be "bloody" like the iPad mini 6 is unknown, but it will certainly be stronger than the current A14.
Aside from chip and network upgrades, the iPad Air 5 won't have many other updates. Tianfeng International analyst Guo Mingxi predicted in an early report that the 2022 iPad Air may use OLED displays instead of the previous LCD displays, with better display results and higher costs, similar to Samsung's Galaxy Tab S series flagship tablets. But he revised his prediction in the new report, arguing that the new iPad Air is still the same, continuing to use LCD displays.
Last year's iPad mini 6 ushered in a full-screen design, the price is slightly in line with the iPad Air, and the A15 bionic chip and 5G network that the iPad Air does not have, has some of the meaning of the iPad Air. If you're interested in iPad Air and care about this "honest" distance, consider the iPad Air 5 you're going to release next.
Mac mini
If Gurman's prediction is accurate, then at this spring conference, Apple will release at least one Mac, most likely a high-end version of the Mac mini that has not been updated for a long time.
As we talked about in the previous article, the current Mac mini high-end version has actually been reduced to a "low-end version", which is one of the few Intel "seedlings" of Apple, and it is not worth buying after the release of apple M1 version of Mac mini. Apple's Mac development focus has shifted to the Arm architecture, and buying the Intel version is tantamount to "entering the national army in 49 years".
The new Mac mini to be released next will be equipped with M1 Pro and M1 Max like the 2021 MacBook Pro, with more Thunderbolt interfaces than the current M1 Mac mini (4 to 2), and the memory is also expected to be on par with the new MacBook Pro, up to 64GB, becoming a real "high-end version" of the Mac mini.
iMac Pro
Another possible new release is the iMac 27-inch, which is expected to inherit the iMac Pro name.
The new iMac Pro design is expected to move closer to the iMac 24-inch version, abandoning the curved back design of the old model and tending to be thin and flat, like a giant iPad with a large chin. In terms of performance, the new iMac Pro is more likely to be equipped with M1 Pro and M1 Max, becoming another Mac that abandons Intel processors.
The iMac 27-inch is Apple's Mac desktop all-in-one benchmark, and the current version on sale is equipped with a 10th-generation Core processor and AMD Radeon Pro GPU, priced at 14399 yuan. The iMac Pro is the flagship Mac desktop all-in-one with up to 18 core Xeon processors and AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64X GPUs, which has been discontinued in 2021.
MacBook Pro 13 inches
MacRumors quoted "reliable sources" as breaking the news that Apple will bring a new generation of 13-inch MacBook Pro at this spring conference, positioning it at the entry level. The new MacBook Pro 13-inch will continue the current version of the design, no bangs display, equipped with a Touch Bar, the main update is the M1 chip upgrade to M2.
The M2 chip is the successor of M1, which is equipped with an 8-core CPU with improved clock frequency and energy efficiency; the GPU has been upgraded from 7 cores and 8 cores to 9 cores and 10 cores. M2 is apple's new generation of self-developed chips entry-level products, the performance is not as good as M1 Pro and M1 Max, stronger models are M2 Pro, M2 Max.
In addition to the MacBook Pro, the new MacBook Air will also be equipped with M2 chips, but may use bangs and Mini LED displays. According to Kuo's forecast, the M2 MacBook Air will not be mass-produced until the end of the second quarter and the beginning of the third quarter of this year due to the shortage of components, so it will not meet with us so soon.
The above is the new product prediction of Apple's spring conference, which product are you most looking forward to?
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