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Apple officially issued an invitation letter at 1:00 a.m., confirming that the 2022 Apple Spring Conference will be held at Apple Park at 10:00 a.m. on March 8 (1:00 a.m. Taiwan time on March 9), and it will still be held online this year. The theme of Apple’s conference is named “Peek performance”, and it is also hinting that there will be a wealth of high-performance products.
As previously reported, the 2022 Apple Spring Conference will be held on March 8, local time in the United States, and will kick off with the same online live broadcast as last year.
It is expected that the spring conference will see the iPhone SE 3rd generation, iPad Air 5, and possibly the new Mac mini and 13-inch MacBook Pro products. The theme of this conference is “Peek performance”, which clearly shows that this new product probably It will focus on performance and speed. For details, you can learn more about the new product details through the following:
iPhone SE 3
The appearance of the new iPhone SE 3 is the same as the previous generation iPhone SE, the screen remains 4.7 inches, and the update rate is small. The main features are the upgrade of the A15 bionic chip and support for 5G networks. It is expected that the most obvious appearance improvement time point will fall in 2023 or 2024. Between years, it adopts a design similar to the iPhone 11 / iPhone XR.
iPad Air 5
According to Japanese media MacOtakara citing Chinese supply chain news, Apple’s new iPad Air 5 is expected to be launched at Apple’s spring conference in 2022, and it will also be unveiled with the iPhone SE 3. In mid-January 2022, Apple also reported to the Eurasian Economic Commission. New iPad models confirm that Apple will launch the iPad Air 5 in the spring
The iPad Air 5 will be unveiled at Apple’s spring conference in 2022. The appearance will continue from the iPad Air 4 without much change. It also uses the power button to integrate the Touch ID design. The main difference is that the iPad Air 5 speakers will be upgraded from the original two. To four, it will also add speaker holes at the top of the iPad Pro.
The main improvement of iPad Air 5 is the improvement of internal hardware specifications, adding a number of iPad mini 6 features, equipped with A15 bionic processor, 5G chip, adding original color flash, front 12 million pixel super wide-angle front lens, and support for portrait centering , which can automatically track people and keep them in the center of the screen. For detailed features, please refer to the following iPad Air 5 lazy person summary:
Mac mini
The current high-end version of the Mac mini still uses an Intel processor. The leaker Jon Prosser and “Bloomberg” have also revealed in advance that Apple is developing a high-end Mac mini internally. Gurman also recently revealed that the new generation of Mac mini will be updated in 2022. Brand new design.
The appearance of the Mac mini 2022 continues the shape of a bento box, but the most obvious change in the overall appearance is that the top is changed to “plexiglass material” with a reflective mirror effect. MagSafe, two USB-A, Ethernet ports and HDMI port output, the body will also become thinner.
The new Mac mini 2022, internally code-named J374, will use a new generation of Apple Silico chip “M1X”, with 10 cores, including 8 high-performance cores and 2 power-saving cores, and can also support up to 64GB of memory. Multiple devices and screens.
13-inch MacBook Pro
There is also news that Apple’s spring conference on March 8 will update the 13-inch MacBook Pro. The news claims that the appearance of the new MacBook Pro is the same as the current 13-inch MacBook Pro, and it will be equipped with a new generation of M2 chips. Low-end version of the M1 Max chip.
Among them, the M2 chip will also use the same eight-core CPU of the M1, which will improve the speed and efficiency, and the GPU will also be improved. It is understood that the M2 chip will have 9-core and 10-core options, which will be more powerful than the M1.
The 2022 Apple Spring Conference will be held at 1:00 a.m. Taiwan time on March 9th, and Mr. Crazy will also provide Apple’s online live discussion area for everyone to chat and discuss.