A standalone display could be the Apple event’s ‘One Extra Thing’

We had all but supplied up hope that Apple’s standalone monitor would at any time make an appearance, but a several new rumors have given us hope that not only is it coming, but it could arrive as early as Tuesday.
In his most up-to-date Power On E-newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman studies that alongside with the Apple iphone SE, iPad Air, and a new Mac, “a fourth ‘wild card’ unveiling is possible” at Apple’s “Peek Functionality party. That could be a amount of points, according to Gurman, but the most intriguing is “the announcement of a subsequent-era watch.”
Though he’s rarely self-confident, Gurman states he “wouldn’t rule out” getting a preview of Apple’s subsequent-generation exterior display at Tuesday’s occasion. He claims Apple completed development on the check late very last year and was thanks to launch before long after final year’s MacBook Professional unveiling in Oct.
As if one particular report was not intriguing sufficient, a Twitter account boasting to belong to Ming-Chi Kuo documented on Sunday that a “more reasonably priced exterior display (27-inch with no mini-LED)” is thanks to arrive in 2022. The account doesn’t supply any extra particulars, but it arrived mere hrs right before Gurman’s report.
At last, 9to5Mac documented previous week that Apple is doing the job on a 7K Apple Studio Display.
Apple experienced been beforehand rumored to be doing the job on a 27-inch observe, but they’ve been largely obscure speculation. The rumors right here are the most solid data about the screen that we’ve gotten so significantly, and it could signal that it is without a doubt all set to start at Tuesday’s occasion.
Apple very last marketed a standalone keep an eye on in 2016, when it retired its 27-inch Thunderbolt Exhibit. Launched in 2011, the check doubled as a docking station, with a few driven USB 2. ports, FireWire 800, gigabit ethernet port, and a Thunderbolt port. It also integrated a designed-in Thunderbolt cable and universal MagSafe cable for connecting to a MacBook.
Michael Simon has been covering Apple considering that the iPod was the iWalk. His obsession with engineering goes back again to his first PC—the IBM Thinkpad with the carry-up keyboard for swapping out the generate. He is nonetheless ready for that to come back in design tbh.