Apple has FINALLY announced their April 20th event, and based on all of the different puzzle
pieces that have JUST come together, I’m almost 100% sure that we’ll be getting a
new 24” iMac from Apple, revealed at the event in just a few days.
Now I know it’s technically not confirmed until it happens.. But I’m gonna go ahead
and just call it. We will be seeing an iMac next week. And if I’m wrong, you guys can
come back to this video and make fun of me, call me names or whatever you want to do.
But trust me.. There are so many different things that PERFECTLY aligned yesterday morning,
so in this video, I’m gonna show you guys how everything comes together for a new iMac
release and then I’m gonna share my thoughts on what features to expect, as well as the
other products we should be expecting from the Apple event, so let’s get right into
it!
Way back last year, we started to see leaks and rumors from various sources that claimed
that we’d be seeing a new 23 or 24” iMac either at the end of 2020, or the beginning
of 2021.
Now the interesting part is that they only mentioned the smaller iMac, and not the 27”
model, and that totally makes sense because back in August, Apple updated the 27”, but
they basically left the 21.5” model alone, which signaled that the 24” would be getting
updated with a new design and Apple Silicon chips first.
Then, in October, it was reported that Apple was working on a redesigned iMac with a new
chip and an apple-designed discrete GPU, and they mentioned that it’s set to ship in
the first half of 2021.
Now I personally believe that they were referring to the larger 27” iMac being replaced by
this model, because in my opinion, the smaller one doesn’t need dedicated graphics. Apple
for sure will want to save that for the more expensive model, which I think is coming later
in the year, because Apple needs time to work on this dedicated GPU.
Then just two months ago, Jon Prosser revealed a huge and surprising leak.. The 2021 may
come in 5 different colors, which hasn’t happened since the original iMac.
Then last month, Jon went on to say that the new iMac is basically ready and could launch
at any time, and after that.. Things started to get really interesting.
On March 17th, an Apple Silicon iMac leaked within an Xcode crash log, and Apple even
confirmed it, which shows that these new iMac models are operational and Apple is testing
them!
And then on March 19th, Apple officially discontinued the 27” iMac Pro, and the very next day,
they discontinued the larger storage models of the 21.5” iMac, and this sort of stuff
usually only happens before a big launch of a new product.
A couple of days later, we had a massive leak within the beta code of MacOS Big Sur 11.3,
pointing to two brand new unreleased iMac models.
This is extremely important, because I don’t know if you know this or not, but just a couple
of weeks before Apple revealed the M1 Macs last year, the same exact thing happened.
MacOS beta code revealed 3 unreleased Macs, which of course ended up being the M1 MacBook
Air, MacBook Pro and Mac mini.
And literally just yesterday morning, Apple seeded the latest beta version of Big Sur
11.3 to developers, pointing to this software releasing soon.
And last week, Tim Cook mentioned that iOS 14.5 is coming in just a few weeks, and as
we already know, Apple usually releases software for their various platforms at the same time,
and it’s often on the same day that Apple’s new products are available to order.
And what makes this even better is that the upcoming iPad Pro’s A14X chip leaked in
iOS 14.5 beta, as well as a new 120hz Apple TV feature in tvOS 14.5 beta, but I’ll get
into those products after the iMac stuff.
So just the fact that we’re expecting macOS big sur 11.3 very soon, and those two iMac
models were leaked within that version, it’s already becoming pretty convincing that we
should see these iMacs this month.
But the weird part is that there are two leaked iMac identifiers, so the question is, do those
iMac identifiers point to two models of the 24” iMac, or do they point to both the small
and large iMacs launching at the same time?
Well, in my opinion, I think it’s more likely that we’re just getting the 24” iMac,
and the two identifiers simply point to two different motherboards, which we’ve seen
in the past with Apple’s previous Macs.
But now, I want to get into by far the most important puzzle piece that is making me basically
confirm that the iMac is coming at next week’s event.
Lovetodream, one of the most reliable leakers, posted a tweet showing rainbow colors and
an iMac, basically confirming what Jon Prosser said about the 5 new colors for the 24”
iMac. In fact, he even replied with a thumbs up to Jon’s original tweet.
So it seems like the new iMac colors are happening, for sure. And just a few weeks ago, we started
to get some leaks showing that Apple was gonna release some new spring-themed case colors
for the iPhone 12, and some of them ironically look exactly like the iMac color leak from
Jon Prosser.
And then just yesterday, more of those cases just leaked, like the dark purple-looking
Amethyst case, and apparently, they’re launching this month.
And on top of that, Max Weinbach says we will likely see new Apple Watch bands being released
as well.
And now.. Let’s finally get into the bombshell that wraps all of this up together.
Apple’s event invitation is titled.. Spring Loaded, basically pointing to a couple of
different things. First off, it means the event is gonna be loaded with new announcements
and products, making an iMac release more likely.
On top of that, the invite shows a bunch of spring-themed colors, literally matching up
to the spring cases that were leaked, as well as the iMac colors.
And we know that they’re spring-themed because of the Augmented reality image that Apple
created, showing off the colors, and Greg Joswiak even tweeted this new morphing logo
outside within Apple Park, right next to a bunch of blooming trees.
So based on that, if Apple is gonna be releasing a redesigned iMac with a bunch of new colors,
the absolute best time would be to release them alongside the rest of the spring-themed
iPhone cases, Apple Watch bands and everything else.
And since this event is Spring-themed, it makes the most sense to release all of that
at the event, including the new iMac.
And just to add a bit more confirmation to the new iMac releasing next week, Macrumors
posted yesterday that the 21.5” iMac just hit an all-time low price of just $950, and
if you know anything about how sales on Apple products happen, Apple has to approve the
sale before retailers can discount prices, so there’s a good chance that Apple is getting
rid of inventory before the new iMac reveal, especially since they already discontinued
the larger storage models last month.
So based on all of those puzzle pieces coming together, including the leaked Apple Silicon
iMac in the Xcode crash log, the leaked iMac identifiers that just so happen to be in the
MacOS big sur 11.3 version that’s releasing very soon, and everything else, I’m officially
calling it. The 24” iMac is coming at the April event next week.
Now with that said, I think it’s gonna look almost exactly like Jon Prosser’s renders,
or these ones by Ian Zelbo on twitter, which look very clean!
On top of that, there are two options in terms of what could happen with the Apple Silicon
chip. Either they are just releasing the base model with the same M1 chip that we already
have, or they’ll give us an upgrade option with the 12-core M1X chip, which seems a bit
hard to believe since we’re not expecting the M1X MacBook Pros until later this year..
But I guess we’ll see.
Don’t expect user-upgradable RAM, because that will 100% not happen on this iMac, it’s
gonna be soldered on. But other than that, the design change will be the best part about
the new iMac.
Now as far as other products that we should expect, we’re basically 100% sure that we’re
getting new iPad Pro models with an A14X chip at the event.
Uncle Pan also agreed with this, saying that we should expect the iPad Pro and the AirTags
bluetooth trackers, so expect those as well.
We did also get a leak of the new iPad Pro models, as well as an iPad Mini, which unfortunately
didn’t get a redesign, so the new mini should be coming at the event as well, simply getting
a chip upgrade to the A14 chip and probably not much else.
There was also a leaked sticker which seems to be a new Magic Keyboard case for the iPad
Pro, so I think we can 100% expect that release at the event next week.
Now on top of that, there’s actually a pretty good chance that we’re gonna be seeing Apple
release a new Apple TV, but it’s probably 50/50 at this point for a couple of different
reasons.
First off, leaked code was found in the last tvOS beta version, pointing to a new Apple
TV model with 120hz refresh rate support, and as we know, that version of tvOS is coming
within the next couple of weeks.
On top of that, we’re expecting the Apple TV to get the A14X chip, and that chip was
leaked within iOS 14.5, so there’s a chance that Apple will show off the chip and put
it into both the iPad Pro and the Apple TV at the same time.
The only issue is that a couple of months ago, the Verifier reported that the Apple
TV 6 is actually coming in the 4th quarter of this year, so I guess we’ll just have
to see what’s gonna happen.
There’s also a chance that we’ll be getting new AirPods, which Uncle Pan believes are
coming at the event, but there are some other leakers who say that they’re getting delayed,
so we’re not really sure.
But other than that, don’t expect much of anything else, and especially don’t expect
the new redesigned MacBook Pros, since they’re reportedly delayed until some time in the
second half of this year.
So there you guys have it, hopefully you enjoyed this video, and if you totally disagree with
my speculations, go ahead and comment your thoughts down below. Thanks for watching,
and we’ll see you in the next video!