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Reputable Analyst Doubles Down on Claim Apple Will Unveil 27-inch Mini-LED Product in June

James Godfrey said:
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.
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The latest rumor about the next Pro Display XDR is that it will be a 32" or 36" 7K MiniLED ProMotion display and will also have an A13 (presumably for CenterStage, Hey Siri and Spatial Audio).

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If we're lucky, Apple can hold the line at $5000 (plus stand) since it should not need as exotic a cooling system as the Pro Display XDR needs.
 
tobybrut said:
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.
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Nope. He said that there was a 27” panel without mini-LED, which was 100% accurate. He assumed it was for an iMac, but his sources are in the display panel supply chain, not final assembly. Now he says another 27” panel is in production with mini-LED. It could go into an iMac Pro or a standalone display, who knows, but his panel track record is 100% accurate.
 
There is no way an iMac ends up with a better display than the current Studio Display. That would make no sense at all.

If there’s a 27” mini LED product coming it’s a standalone display between the Studio and XDR. The timing for that would be really odd though.
 
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sos47 said:
the ipad pro 11 should have a mini led display like the larger model, because the new ipad air with m1 is too close to the actual ipp11
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It always go like this… when the iPad Pro’s only got the A12Z upgrade the iPad Air was too close, then the Pro got M1 and they have made the Air too close again, it’s always hot on the heels of the 11” Pro for about 6-9 months of every year pretty much.

If miniLED isn’t coming to the 11” Pro this year though, then the device isn’t going to sell well at all until the following iPad Pro refresh.
 
I’m really doubting this one. I can’t see Apple releasing a pro display in two sizes. It is possible an iMac Pro will be announced, but a WWDC announcement feels unlikely unless it is part of wrapping up the Apple silicon transition. If Apple does a mini-LED screen of this size they will want to include HDR and Pro-Motion. Since Thunderbolt 4 can’t handle the bandwidth required for that, they could only do it in an iMac.
 
I'm just not sure an iMac Pro / 27" iMac is necessary anymore. Over the weekend Max Tech released a video comparing a Mac Studio Max and Mac Studio Ultra compared to a 2017 iMac Pro with the 8-core Xeon and Vega 56 and a 2020 iMac 5K with the 10-core i9 and a 5700XT and the Studio Max crushed them and the Studio Ultra demolished them across the board on synthetic benchmarks and application testing in video, audio and coding.

I do believe the 24" iMac needs an M1 Pro option so it can handle more powerful workloads and offer 32GB of RAM so that is can handle more, if not most, of the use cases the Intel iMac 5K did.

IMO, the iMac 5K became Apple's mainstream desktop due to comparative neglect of the Mac mini and Mac Pro and not because people adored the AIO form factor. Now that Apple has released a desktop (the Mac Studio) that addresses almost all of the issues of the Mac mini (lack of power and ports) at a price significantly below the Mac Pro, I think it could become "the new normal" for Mac desktops, especially because it can be used with whatever monitor an end user needs: low-priced commodity, gaming, photo/video reference, etc. and in whatever size you want from 24 inches to 77 inches.
 
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I do agree with him that it will be 32" @ 7086x3986 @ 254ppi (similar to the MacBook Pro 14/16) using the same chassis and stand options as the Pro Display XDR to keep the prices the same.

I also agree it will max out at 60Hz because that is what video people work at so it will be able to work over a single TB4 cable using DSC.
 
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