2021 was a pretty good year for Apple, with a lot of awesome product releases like the new 14 and 16” MacBook Pros, but there were a few stones that Apple left unturned as we broke in the New Year, and thankfully, we’re starting to get some major clues as to when Apple’s next event is gonna happen, and what exactly we should be expecting.
As we all know, Apple hosted their Spring event last year in the month of April, but that’s only because the original March date ended up getting delayed. And if you look at Apple’s past Spring events, they almost always took place in March, so April was an anomaly. So in my personal opinion, I believe Apple will be holding a March event this year, especially since some products there were supposed to get released last year in October were delayed, and I think they’ve been sitting there ready to go, just waiting for the next event, so I think it makes sense for the event to take place sooner than later, hence the March date.
Mac Mini was supposed to come out last year alongside the MacBook pros according to myself and dylanDKT, but it didn’t happen because Apple decided to give the MacBook Pros all of the spotlights, so they held off. I fully believe it’s been ready for a while, it’s just sitting there waiting for an event because the new redesign justifies an event, not a press release. I fully believe it’ll come packing M1 Pro and M1 Max chip options, but probably not the new crazy M1 Max duo that we’ve recently been speculating about. We know it’s coming for sure since Apple is still selling a high-end Intel mac mini model, so this one will directly replace it, sitting above the M1 model.
It’ll probably come in at $1299, which is a good deal compared to the $2000 14” MacBook Pro which comes with the M1 Pro chip. I don’t expect a low-end M2 mac mini until later this year We know this is coming because Apple is still selling the 27” intel model, and Apple needs to replace it to finish the 2-year transition. I guarantee it’s coming at Apple’s spring event, no doubt about it. Dylandkt said it was delayed to the beginning of 2022, and then ross young was more specific when he said 1st quarter of 2022, which is the end of march. This is one of the reasons I believe there will be a marching event. The design will look almost exactly like the 24” iMac, just bigger. Same size chin.
Just a proportionally thicker body to allow for better cooling and ports. However, this one will likely come in a space gray color, and maybe a silver, but I’m not sure. It depends on if Apple calls it the iMac Pro or not. The display will be 27”, for sure, according to Ross Young, who hasn’t been wrong yet. 120hz ProMotion Mini-LED display is likely on at least one of the models. M1 Pro and M1 Max are guaranteed. DylanDKT recently said he believes there’s a good chance it’ll come with a more powerful chip option, which I fully believe is the M1 Max duo. Essentially 2 M1 Max dies are connected using special fabric. I believe this because the M1 Max dies has a secret interconnect section on the bottom which Apple chose to edit out of their die images.
The base model is expected to start at around $2000 with the M1 Pro chip, and it’ll get vastly more expensive as you go up to better chip options. This is an obvious move by Apple because the current iPad Air 4 is outdated compared to the new iPad Mini 6 since it has the old A14 chip compared to A15 while being $100 more expensive, which makes no sense at all. Because of that, I can 100% guarantee that the Air will be coming this spring, but I’m not sure if it’ll be shown off at the event or a press release in April. And just the other day, Apple registered multiple model numbers with the EEC, which means that we should expect this new iPad to come soon, for sure. It’ll be a very boring upgrade, in my opinion. Same price as before.
Just updated to match the new specs of the iPad Mini 6, but with some other tweaks. 12Mp ultrawide selfie camera with center stage support A15 chip Optional 5G cellular Quad-led true tone flash Quad speakers Ipad-pro like dual-camera system on the back Finally, we have the new iPhone SE 3 which has been rumored for months now, and unfortunately, it’s also gonna be a very minimal upgrade. Instead of the awesome 6.1” display that was rumored in the past, It’s not gonna be getting a redesign at all. It’ll stick with the same 4.7” display as before, which does include the home button.
And as far as the new features, it’s simply gonna be a spec update, with a new chip, most likely the A15 chip, 5G cellular connectivity and that’s probably it. And I think the pricing will stay the same at $399, which is gonna make it a big deal for emerging markets like India. Now as far as this new iPhone, I think there’s a pretty good chance it’ll just be a press release instead of being shown off at the event because it’s such a boring update, and we did get some leaks from LeaksApplePro which showed that Apple may have delayed it until April, so it’ll be perfect for a press release. But other than that, there’s a chance we’ll get some other updates like a new iPhone 13 color, potentially, or maybe even some updates to some of Apple’s less popular accessories or products, but we don’t have anything specific just yet.
