The calendar has turned to March and Apple is rumored to have at the very least three product bulletins deliberate between now and the top of April, together with a 15-inch MacBook Air, a brand new Mac Professional tower, and a brand new iPhone 14 colour possibility.
Under, now we have recapped what to anticipate from Apple this March and April primarily based on rumors. This story was initially revealed in February and has been up to date with new info primarily based on the newest rumors and reporting.
15″ MacBook Air
Apple’s provide chain began manufacturing of show panels for a brand new 15.5-inch MacBook Air in February, in accordance with show business analyst Ross Younger, who has an excellent monitor file with rumors about future Apple merchandise over the previous few years.
Younger expects the brand new MacBook Air to launch in early April, however an announcement and pre-orders might actually happen sooner. Apple typically broadcasts new merchandise in March at an occasion or with press releases on the Apple Newsroom web site, however it did maintain an April occasion in 2021 to introduce a brand new iMac, iPad Professional, Apple TV, and the AirTag, together with a brand new Purple colour possibility for the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini.
A brand new 15-inch show dimension possibility can be the most important ever for the MacBook Air. The present MacBook Air has a 13.6-inch show, and the laptop computer was provided in an 11-inch dimension a few years in the past. The brand new MacBook Air continues to be anticipated to be outfitted with an LCD panel, as the primary mannequin with an OLED show is not anticipated to launch till 2024.
Just like the 13-inch MacBook Air, the 15-inch mannequin will reportedly be out there with the M2 chip. Apple says the M2 chip has as much as an 18% sooner CPU, as much as a 35% sooner GPU, and as much as a 40% sooner Neural Engine in comparison with the M1 chip.
Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo final yr claimed {that a} 15-inch MacBook with M2 and M2 Professional chip choices can be launched within the second quarter of 2023 or later. Curiously, Kuo mentioned this MacBook won’t have Air branding. On a purely speculative foundation, it’s doable that Apple might launch a 15-inch MacBook that’s positioned between the MacBook Air and MacBook Professional, however Apple’s plans stay to be seen.
New Mac Professional
The following Mac Professional might be out there with Apple’s upcoming M2 Extremely chip, which might make it the quickest Mac ever, in accordance with Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman. He expects the brand new Mac Professional to have the similar design because the 2019 mannequin, however lack user-upgradeable RAM. The next-end “M2 Excessive” chip for the pc was apparently cancelled.
In January, Gurman mentioned Apple was internally testing a brand new Mac Professional working macOS 13.3, which might be publicly launched this spring, in accordance with Apple. Given this, it’s doable that Apple might launch each the Mac Professional and macOS 13.3 round March or April, however there may be nonetheless no definitive timeframe for the pc’s launch this yr, so there stays an opportunity that the brand new Mac Professional is introduced at WWDC 2023 in June or later within the yr.
New iPhone Colour
Apple typically releases at the very least one new iPhone colour in March or April, and a latest rumor means that custom might proceed this yr.
Apple plans to make the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus out there in Yellow this spring, in accordance with a Weibo submit shared by Japanese weblog Mac Otakara. Apple final provided a Yellow colour possibility for the iPhone 11 in 2019 and the iPhone XR in 2018. It is unclear if Apple plans to launch a brand new colour for the iPhone 14 Professional fashions.
At its March 2022 occasion, Apple launched a new Alpine Inexperienced colour for the iPhone 13 Professional and iPhone 13 Professional Max, and a brand new Inexperienced colour for the iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 mini. In April 2021, Apple made the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini out there in Purple.
In earlier years, Apple launched a brand new (PRODUCT)RED colour for the iPhone 7 and iPhone 8 sequence.
