AppleCare Memo Hints at Potential Hardware Announcement Next Tuesday

[sully54]

Applecare for Fitness+?

Well AppleCare teams would need to know if people have issues with the service.

 

[Sheppard]

If they were planning on a Mac mini redesign to accommodate Apple silicon, I don’t see why they wouldn’t have already done it. The size of the Mac mini is now dictated by the internal PSU and an apparent desire to keep the square enclosure. If they lose either one of those, they can make the Mac mini quite a bit smaller…but they chose not to.

Two words = Rack mounting

This form factor has been consistent for years and the enterprise server farm industry would not take kindly to radical changes in this department

 

[ItsSoShiny]

 

[Sheppard]

New full-sized HomePod. Supplies are low everywhere.

This would be interesting!!

 

[thimplicity]

Press release - Probably rather a refresh of an existing line than a new product, so my guess would be Apple TV or homepod

 

[MrJM]

That would certainly be the least exciting Apple new product announcement since iPod socks.

I loved iPod socks. I remember me and 5 friends all chipped in and had a different one each. Green was always a favourite but it got really grubby but at least it could be washed with your normal socks!!

 

[RumorConsumer]

Airtags would make sense before Christmas, cheap and be a stocking stuffer

Also with iOS 14.3 sounding like it adds support.

 

[sideshowuniqueuser]

You wanna know what it is?
Ok I’ll tell you... late 2020 16 inch MacBook Pro with 10th gen Intel

But not with correctly and efficiently engineered heatsinking (as per all post-Retina Intel Apple laptops)

 

[Sheppard]

At this point, All hope is lost for AirTags it seems like.

The irony!

 

[cRuNcHiE]

What if.... it’s a new Apple TV and they bought the rights to distribute the new James Bond film for Christmas?

 

[Internet Enzyme]

Feels like bringing the M1 to the Apple TV wouldn't be super duper hard, and please correct me if I'm wrong but M1 is more powerful the A Series chip we have in iPhone, iPads etc?

The M1 is the same architecture as the A14, so yes it is based off of the A14. The point is, whatever SoC they put in a future Apple TV, from a marketing perspective, it will never be an “M1,” because that is the Mac processor. Past Apple TVs had the A-series, so they will continue with that.

 

[Eduardo1971]

Updated Apple TV please!

 

[mdgm]

Updated Intel 21" iMac, perhaps?

 

[RecentlyConverted]

An Apple TV with M1. That would be interesting. I wonder what you would be able to do and play on such a device.

You could finally have Safari and browse the web (probably not).

 

[DeepIn2U]

I think the original AirPods were released with no fanfare, in December one year. I have a hunch this is AirTags.

No they released with iPhone 7

 

[Unregistered 4U]

This would be interesting!!

With the U1 chips... this would make sense because you have location aware mini’s now.

 

[patent10021]

Finally a MBP with Blu-Ray. Can't innovate my azz.

 

[TVreporter]

I bought a refurb Apple TV 4K two weeks ago as I couldn’t wait until the spring. Love it and wish I had updated long ago from my third gen.

I’ll be extremely annoyed if they drop a new one right now.

 

[mdgm]

Finally a MBP with Blu-Ray

That would be nice, but considering Apple hasn't sold a Mac with an internal optical drive for several years I doubt that very much.

 

[TVreporter]

Applecare for Fitness+?

For $200 we’ll help cover 5 chiropractic visits after you pull a muscle doing a workout!!

 

[TVreporter]

What about an updated Apple TV remote??

A test run before a new set launches in the spring??

Although Prosser said back in March it was ready to launch.

 

[AdamJames]

Maybe AirTags and Fitness+ are connected? The U1 chip would make some pretty cool things possible when combined with recording your workouts with an iPhones/iPads with LIDAR. Whoa. Actually, those tools are probably an order of magnitude better than what's used by the best golf pros to analyze their swing currently.

 

[tmiw]

I just bought a refurb 16" Intel MBP so it better not be another Intel MBP. OTOH, the one I bought would likely do me well enough until I finally 100% switch over to AS regardless.

 

[velocityg4]

Mac Pro
- M1xxx 64 core 5.2 Ghz
- 128 PCIe 5.0 Lanes
- 2TB RAM limit DDR5
- Dedicated 250W GPU based off that in the M1 faster than the GTX 3090 in FP32 and AMD MI100 in FP64
- Dedicated Neural Engine card.

Anything less and Apple will have let us down.😜

 

[adrianlondon]

Free upgrade to the new M2 4-port Air for everyone who bought an Intel Air in the spring.

Shhhh, please keep quiet, I'm asleep and dreaming.