Three Upcoming Apple Products Seemingly Spotted in macOS 26.3 Code

[Tyler O'Bannon]

Please for the LOVE give us 32” but NOT 5 grand. We don’t all need a reference monitor to have 32” of screen. Just MBP quality would be fantastic. Here’s hoping that’s what this second model is

 

[JohannesO]

Espósito found the following codenames within macOS 26.3's source code

How did he get the source code? Did he even get the source code?

macOS 26.3 might have just spilled Apple’s biggest March 4 secrets

Product drivers for the low-cost MacBook and two new Studio Displays spotted in the latest macOS code.

www.macworld.com

 

[Tomboman]

Please for the LOVE give us 32” but NOT 5 grand. We don’t all need a reference monitor to have 32” of screen. Just MBP quality would be fantastic. Here’s hoping that’s what this second model is

Same here - I was close to buy the new LG 6K 32", but waiting till summer if Apple will release a 32" one.

 

[wilderkun]

Oh wow ok thanks. Definitely sounds like overkill. Would’ve thought an A10 would be ok for that!

Yeah. It doesn’t really make sense honestly.

 

[ascender]

Please for the LOVE give us 32” but NOT 5 grand. We don’t all need a reference monitor to have 32” of screen. Just MBP quality would be fantastic. Here’s hoping that’s what this second model is

The fact there's two models listed makes me hopeful that maybe one is a 32" model (at last).

Having two 27" models with different specs, one being labeled a "Pro" ASD would be a very Apple thing to do but very, very confusing.

 

[amaze1499]

Foldable iPads! well... at least colored cases with screen and built in keyboard.

 

[Hank001]

Why lol

No one knows, but only 2GB is being used:

Apple Studio Display Contains 64GB of Storage, But Only 2GB Used

Apple's Studio Display contains 64GB of onboard storage, but only 2GB are actually used by the display, a developer has discovered. As highlighted by developer "Khaos Tian" on Twitter, the Studio Display only uses 2GB of its 64GB of internal NAND storage. Some free space is likely needed for...

forums.macrumors.com

 

[Hank001]

Why would a monitor have 64GB of RAM.. or any RAM for that matter?

Apple Studio Display Contains 64GB of Storage, But Only 2GB Used

Apple's Studio Display contains 64GB of onboard storage, but only 2GB are actually used by the display, a developer has discovered. As highlighted by developer "Khaos Tian" on Twitter, the Studio Display only uses 2GB of its 64GB of internal NAND storage. Some free space is likely needed for...

forums.macrumors.com

We can all relax; they're only using 2GB.

 

[Hank001]

Don't "throw all of my laptops in the trash," just plug them into 32" when at your office workstation. 😉

Seriously, the productivity increase is usually huge.

And close the lid; unbearable to see a cramped screen next to our 32".

 

[IvyKing]

B) The two displays can be set to different resolutions to suit the apps being used. Images on one display, text on another. E.g. images on a display with maximum resolution, but the metadata for the images on a display set to lower resolution.

Interestingly enough, some comments on the monochrome and CGA display adapters for the original IBM PC suggested that CAD programs could use the monochrome adapter for displaying text while the graphics were displayed on the CGA. This was possible as the two adapters used different portions of the "above 640K" address space.

I have a 10+ year old 27" Thunderbolt and a 1 year Studio Display where the latter is my primary display and the former is the secondary display. Does make for a bit better productivity, which is something that I became aware of when first using a 1280 by 1024 display.

 

[Mobius77]

If there is a new MacBook with A18 Pro within a couple of weeks, then shouldn't we have seen some sneak pictures about manufacturing by now?

 

[lilkwarrior]

• J527: A new, higher-end Studio Display

There are no details about the second Studio Display. Presumably, it would be a higher-end model, and we can only dream of a larger 32-inch screen size.

Why you're acting like the current 32" Pro Display Display doesn't exist which is a substantially better and prosumer-appropriate monitor (especially creative professionals) that is due for an upgrade that's more appropriate for Apple's highest end prosumer products?

Its technology is what enabled the XDR tech for all of Apple's core "pro" products including the baselines the Ultra XDR variant using Tandom OLED follows: 1000 *sustained* nits, 1600 peak nits with Dolby Vision HDR.

The Studio Display is incapable of that and thus not the perfect match to use with the Macbook Pro and iPad Pro that meets that bar.

The new 32" is the long overdue Ultra XDR variant of the Pro Display XDR which hopefully offers Pro Motion (120hz), Thunderbolt 5, and hopefully 12-bit color as well as perhaps a resolution bump to ~3 DPR via 8K though 6K still would be decent though glasses-free high-PPI spatial content support would be more viable via 8K.

Considering Asus's ProArt 8K monitor is $8,000; I could see a direct successor to the Pro Display XDR being $5k-8K.

 

[lilkwarrior]

is it ridiculously naïve to think the "27" in both of those studio display product codes probably relates to the size?

And therefore that the difference between them is something else. maybe one has ridiculous refresh rates for gamers and one has actual passthrough thunderbolt or something (current one just has downstream usb ports). or one is like the current but more budget for people who just want a nice high-res screen and the other has those extra toys.

If they're both 27": More likely one has ideal prosumer-level HDR like the Pro Display XDR and literally all the other Apple Pro devices with a screen. That warrants a considerable price difference than the medicore HDR performance of the existing one the new one may match that blocks it from having picture quality with Macbooks and especially the iPad Pro.

Also one may have MiniLED still (the mediocre/lesser one) while one uses Tandem OLED tech meeting the Ultra XDR capabilities of the iPad Pro finally on a large screen for desktop work.

Being consistent with all their other prosumer products, moving to OLED entirely makes sense with the highest end monitor SKU (hopefully a direct successor to the Pro Display XDR) matching the Ultra XDR HDR spec they've debuted two years ago on the iPad.

 

[kiranmk2]

I suppose they will heavily rely on the swap memory feature and use the SSD as RAM.

Or perhaps more likely, they will consider the profit possible today (especially with the RAM crisis) and let some other poor sod (likely yet to be recruited) worry about making MacOS 30 run on 8 GB!

 

[StrangeNoises]

im probably the only person hoping for a 24 inch Studio Display lol

i would unironicallly *love* a standalone display that matched the 24" iMac's display. Both to pair *with* an actual iMac, but also just on its own. my favourite older monitor is a Dell 4K 24" display. Its resolution is *almost* retina, but not quite.