Battle of the "leakers" ... and in the end: "another one bites the dust" - who will it be this year?
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Reputable Analyst Doubles Down on Claim Apple Will Unveil 27-inch Mini-LED Product in June
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Don't think so. At least not in any target display mode kind of way.
IF this happens, this will probably be an iMac with an M1 and (hopefully) M1 Pro option. Can’t see it having the Max and Ultra at this time. Depending on how the Mac Studio sells, that might dictate the appearance of a iMac Pro and when it happens. They might make a “consumer” and “professional” lines of Macs.
Consumer: MacBook Air, Mac mini and iMac 24”
Weird place (maybe future Prosumer?): MacBook Pro 13-inch (might become just the MacBook)
Professional: MacBook Pro (14/16”) and Mac Studio
I haven’t listed the Mac Pro since it hasn’t transitioned yet to Apple Silicon. The future high end Mac mini and rumored 27-inch iMac will be prosumer devices within the consumer line.
Consumer: MacBook Air, Mac mini and iMac 24”
Weird place (maybe future Prosumer?): MacBook Pro 13-inch (might become just the MacBook)
Professional: MacBook Pro (14/16”) and Mac Studio
I haven’t listed the Mac Pro since it hasn’t transitioned yet to Apple Silicon. The future high end Mac mini and rumored 27-inch iMac will be prosumer devices within the consumer line.
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My money is on Ross Young. He seems pretty confident. He knows his stuff. I can’t wait till WWDC. “One more thing” is happening this year.
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It’s too risky nowadays and you never know with Apple but Ross Young has an excellent track record.
You remember this from last year, 😂
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No, there used to be a feature called Target Display Mode which allowed the use of iMacs as monitors but that functionality hasn’t existed on new iMacs for a number of years.
Makes no sense to me for Apple not releasing a 27” iMac. The studio is a completely different beast for a small target group (more will buy it because they think they need it). But for those that don’t need heavy lifting but want a larger screen an iMac 27” would be great.
Really torn now as if I should wait before triggering the purchase of the Studio Display. I don’t think this Pro one would be in my budget, but it would be a more compelling upgrade from what I have now
Didn’t Ross Young completely miss out on the 27” Studio Display and Mac Studio combo? I get that he might have missed the Mac Studio since he’s a display analyst, but he had a tweet that predicted a 27” monitor, but then reversed himself that he had confused a display with an iMac, and had changed his prediction to a new iMac coming out. IIRC, that was his last prediction, which is wrong. That takes down his 100% track record.
Why is Apple stuck with this 27" idea? that's so 10 years ago.
The only prediction he got wrong wasn’t even related to displays at all. He predicted the new iPhone SE would be called iPhone SE+5G
If this is a 27" iMac - don't expect the base config to come in anywhere close to $2K (paid a little under $1700 for my base model 5K back in 2017)
Don’t want to get into politics here but the only green Apple is really interested in is the colour of their money. Don’t blame them - it’s business - but the green revolution is just another money making exercise on the part of all the megacorps involved. As you all were…
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Apple can always just keep stockpiling them for release at a later time.
Remember the AirTags? Hell, the entire product was leaked waaay before Apple officially announced them and released them, when was it? Last year or the year before, in the Spring?
The whole thing seems counter-productive.
Why release a consumer 27" iMac with a better display than the one you sell for the prosumer/professional Mac Studio and MacBook Pro?
Why release a better 27" display so soon after releasing the Apple Studio Display? Even if this new display is $2500, the people most-likely to pay that are the ones who recently paid $1600 for the Apple Studio Display and now they're effectively locked-out because they already have a $1600 sunk-cost.
Why release a consumer 27" iMac with a better display than the one you sell for the prosumer/professional Mac Studio and MacBook Pro?
Why release a better 27" display so soon after releasing the Apple Studio Display? Even if this new display is $2500, the people most-likely to pay that are the ones who recently paid $1600 for the Apple Studio Display and now they're effectively locked-out because they already have a $1600 sunk-cost.
I'm not sure whether or not I even ought to care if this leak is correct. Yes, miniLED and 120Hz sound amazing and are essentially what I looked forward to in the Studio Display before it was announced, but that ended up being $1600 for the same features I already had in my LG 5K. This miniLED 27" display sounds like quite the upgrade over it, to the point where I can't really imagine it being priced lower than $2500. That pushes it out of range for me.
You'd think that this would be easy for Apple's finance guys to figure out, but they did the same thing in recent memory with the iPhone SE 2 (2020) and the iPhone 12 Mini. The only explanations I can think of are that they either didn't anticipate the market overlap due to price or that they one of the products is intended to be low-quantity enough that they just don't care. Both of these explanations would imply a pretty high price for this miniLED 27" display, getting me back to what I said above.
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It was the same with the most recent Apple TV, it launched in May 2021 but references the original HomePod which was discontinued in March of the same year, but no reference of the HomePod mini which was launched in November 2020 leading us to believe the Apple TV had likely been produced and stored for quite a while, definitely before they released the HomePod mini anyway.
If anything it suggests that although it’s likely to be cheaper than the Pro Display XDR, I expect it will be in line to replace it and be priced quite a bit higher than $2500, maybe $3000-$3500 or somewhere in that ball park.
It will definitely be substantial enough to not completely p**s off those who have just bought the studio display anyway.
The only reason to believe there's a 27" coming is because the 24" iMac is labeled as such. If there was only one iMac model it would be called 'iMac' without the size specifier. This is the only product named that way on the store, which IMO is pretty weird for Apple given their general care with naming.
I have a really hard time believing that Apple would release two identically sized standalone displays within months of each other after effectively abandoning the market for about a decade.
From a technical standpoint I guess it would be easier to ship an all-in-one 27” pro-motion XDR display, as there are connectivity issues with passing that much data to a standalone display, but from a business sense… you just announced the Studio Mac/Display combo as the go-to option for anyone on a 27” iMac, where does the second display fit?
It sounds nuts but I almost wonder whether the new Mac Pro is going to be an all-in-one. We already know that expandability is out now that Apple Silicon’s in, so why not take the opportunity to make a really beefy machine with display specs that exceed what’s currently possible with a standalone? No Studio Display buyers would be mad because the price will crazy.
From a technical standpoint I guess it would be easier to ship an all-in-one 27” pro-motion XDR display, as there are connectivity issues with passing that much data to a standalone display, but from a business sense… you just announced the Studio Mac/Display combo as the go-to option for anyone on a 27” iMac, where does the second display fit?
It sounds nuts but I almost wonder whether the new Mac Pro is going to be an all-in-one. We already know that expandability is out now that Apple Silicon’s in, so why not take the opportunity to make a really beefy machine with display specs that exceed what’s currently possible with a standalone? No Studio Display buyers would be mad because the price will crazy.