The calendar has turned to March and Apple is rumored to have not less than three product bulletins deliberate between now and the tip of April, together with a 15-inch MacBook Air, a brand new Mac Professional tower, and a brand new iPhone 14 shade choice.
Under, we’ve recapped what to anticipate from Apple this March and April based mostly on rumors. This story was initially revealed in February and has been up to date with new data based mostly on the newest rumors and reporting.
15″ MacBook Air
Apple’s provide chain began manufacturing of show panels for a brand new 15.5-inch MacBook Air in February, in keeping with show trade analyst Ross Younger, who has an excellent monitor document with rumors about future Apple merchandise over the previous few years.
Younger expects the brand new MacBook Air to launch in early April, however an announcement and pre-orders may actually happen sooner. Apple typically pronounces new merchandise in March at an occasion or with press releases on the Apple Newsroom web site, nevertheless it did maintain an April occasion in 2021 to introduce a brand new iMac, iPad Professional, Apple TV, and the AirTag, together with a brand new Purple shade choice for the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini.
A brand new 15-inch show measurement choice can be the biggest ever for the MacBook Air. The present MacBook Air has a 13.6-inch show, and the laptop computer was supplied in an 11-inch measurement a few years in the past. The brand new MacBook Air continues to be anticipated to be geared up with an LCD panel, as the primary mannequin with an OLED show is not anticipated to launch till 2024.
Just like the 13-inch MacBook Air, the 15-inch mannequin will reportedly be out there with the M2 chip. Apple says the M2 chip has as much as an 18% sooner CPU, as much as a 35% sooner GPU, and as much as a 40% sooner Neural Engine in comparison with the M1 chip.
Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo final yr claimed {that a} 15-inch MacBook with M2 and M2 Professional chip choices can be launched within the second quarter of 2023 or later. Apparently, Kuo mentioned this MacBook won’t have Air branding. On a purely speculative foundation, it’s potential that Apple may launch a 15-inch MacBook that’s positioned between the MacBook Air and MacBook Professional, however Apple’s plans stay to be seen.
New Mac Professional
The following Mac Professional will probably be out there with Apple’s upcoming M2 Extremely chip, which might make it the quickest Mac ever, in keeping with Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman. He expects the brand new Mac Professional to have the similar design because the 2019 mannequin, however lack user-upgradeable RAM. The next-end “M2 Excessive” chip for the pc was apparently cancelled.
In January, Gurman mentioned Apple was internally testing a brand new Mac Professional working macOS 13.3, which will probably be publicly launched this spring, in keeping with Apple. Given this, it’s potential that Apple may launch each the Mac Professional and macOS 13.3 round March or April, however there may be nonetheless no definitive timeframe for the pc’s launch this yr, so there stays an opportunity that the brand new Mac Professional is introduced at WWDC 2023 in June or later within the yr.
New iPhone Shade
Apple typically releases not less than one new iPhone shade in March or April, and a latest rumor means that custom may proceed this yr.
Apple plans to make the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus out there in Yellow this spring, in keeping with a Weibo publish shared by Japanese weblog Mac Otakara. Apple final supplied a Yellow shade choice for the iPhone 11 in 2019 and the iPhone XR in 2018. It is unclear if Apple plans to launch a brand new shade for the iPhone 14 Professional fashions.
At its March 2022 occasion, Apple launched a new Alpine Inexperienced shade for the iPhone 13 Professional and iPhone 13 Professional Max, and a brand new Inexperienced shade for the iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 mini. In April 2021, Apple made the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini out there in Purple.
In earlier years, Apple launched a brand new (PRODUCT)RED shade for the iPhone 7 and iPhone 8 sequence.
