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New iMac, 10.8-Inch iPad Air, and Larger iPad Mini Rumored to Launch in Second Half of 2020
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The 21.5" and low-end 27" could have been spec-bumped from 8th Generation to 9th Generation Intel CPUs in March, but the 27" BTO are already on 9th Generation and the 10th Generation did not ship until late May.
The full screen iPad mini really should just be branded as the smaller iPad Air.
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No! iPad Air 9-inch!
Your fantasy: lame-ass rehash of a meme five years past its sell by date.
Reality: Apple issues press release about the refreshed iPad mini’s slightly larger screen in the same physical size.
I second this. Why would I want a mini almost as big, though thinner, as the original iPad?
The entire reason I have an iPad mini is because it's small.
I always respect your input, but I still haven’t caught up with you in thinking the 10.8” model is the next base iPad. Are you thinking it’ll keep the home button, forehead/chin, rounded rear shell and still get such a large screen? I’m stuck on it being the Air 4 within the 2018 Pro 11” housing with slightly thicker bezels.
Kuo was pretty explicit about the 10.8" being a low-cost device. @L0vetodream says the iPad (2020) will use the A12 and the next iPad Air will be 11" with mini-LED and in-display fingerprint. This makes sense for a number of reasons. The volume of the low-cost iPad is likely high enough to justify a new 10.8" chassis for the product. There are also enough features separating an 11" Air with the 11" Pro such as camera, storage, Face ID, and perhaps 5G.
Oh, God I hope so.. I want to see a PowerPC revival through ARM. An end to Intel and Otellin's dream.
In case people missed it, we are ALREADY in the second half of 2020.
I assume TouchID with a home button would still be needed at the budget end. Maybe they can trim the 10.2” bezels beyond that of the 10.5’s to keep overall device size (and thus existing accessory compatibility) the same. Or give it a squared off chassis that works with Air 4/Pro 11” accessories so all three iPads could use the same keyboard. Just seems to me like it’ll be too big if existing bezels carry over to the larger screen.
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I hope not, 2020 has been crazy enough already.
June is still inside the first six months of the year.
Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun.
The second six months begins from July.
Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec.
I mean I would love to see it at WWDC or at least signs of it and itching to get a USB-C non-pro iPad for the longest time, but I'm not holding my breath for it.
I don't think there's any way around a Home button for the 10.8" iPad. Unless Apple says no Touch ID for the $329 iPad, there will be a Home button. In terms of chassis, due to cost, I suspect Apple will simply enlarge the existing 10.2" chassis to fit a 10.8" display, just as Apple enlarged the 9.7" chassis for 10.2". The 10.5" chassis is too small.
In terms of keyboards, the current Smart Keyboard for 10.5/10.2" has been out for 3 years. It shouldn't be painful for Apple to update it for 10.8". Apple has such a high margin on accessories, I don't they mind maintaining 3 keyboard products as they do now.
I considered the possibility of eliminating TouchID altogether when replying, which could make sense in classrooms, but the base iPad is just too popular in general for them to go back to password only protection I think. Maybe a side button or smaller pill shaped home button? I’m still not convinced which way they’ll go with all these models but certainly interested in watching it play out. Off topic but right now the front runner for my money is the ~9” Mini, that would be awesome.
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My wild guess:
The current base iPad will be rebranded as the iPad SE.
The iPad Air and iPad mini will be redesigned like the article image (big iPhone Xr but without the notch), and lose the Air suffix.
So you end up with (descending price-wise):
iPad Pro 12.9
iPad Pro 11
iPad
iPad Mini
iPad SE
The current base iPad will be rebranded as the iPad SE.
The iPad Air and iPad mini will be redesigned like the article image (big iPhone Xr but without the notch), and lose the Air suffix.
So you end up with (descending price-wise):
iPad Pro 12.9
iPad Pro 11
iPad
iPad Mini
iPad SE
I think software adoption will take time (Years) from third party developers.. let’s see what they say at WWDC.
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Completely true and the screen size (mm * mm) is not even listed on the detailed tech specs on Apple website, you can only calculate it somewhat from the pixel resolution.
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My guess is the body of the current mini but just small bezels to allow bigger screen
Which to me which be a good addition
I always do landscape FaceTime call, camera has to be moved to the horizontal top of the screen like on every laptop. Right now it’s just silly.
I wish Apple could do an announcement for products to be launched in the next 6 months, this way we can make our decisioins to buy or wait. Now you buy a product, 2 months later, its the launch of the much improved and better but same priced iPad. Kind of like they announce iOS in June but release it in October.
Other than entertainment, that is my main reason to follow Rumors sites. I wanna avoid buying something close to the announcement of a new model.
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Pencil 1 and lightning should disappear soon.
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