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  • Rumor: Apple to release new MacBook, iPad Pro, AirPower wireless charging mat in September

    Apple’s new gear is en route and the rumor mill has it arriving in September.

    Per DigiTimes, Apple will release a new entry level MacBook, complete with a 14 nm Kaby Lake processor, that should be priced around $1,200. Apparently Apple originally planned to ship the new MacBook in late 2017 with a 10 nm Kaby Lake processor, but Intel’s manufacturing delay into late 2019 forced the company to release the computer now with the 14 nm chip.

    The site also stated that a refreshed 12.9-inch iPad Pro can be expected in September, alongside an 11-inch model that will replace the current 10.5-inch iPad Pro. Both iPads will have much smaller bezels, like the iPhone X. The new iPads will ship with a redesigned 18 W charger with a USB-C to Lightning cable.

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  • 2018 Touch Bar MacBook Pro models can support True Tone functionality on some external displays

    This is definitely spiffy.

    Apple’s newly-released 2018 Touch Bar MacBook Pro functions as the first MacBook Pro with a True Tone display. As such, the notebook can also extend this functionality to a couple external displays such as Apple’s Thunderbolt display as well as the LG UtraFine 4K and 5K displays.

    True Tone first showed up on the iPad Pro and then the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X. It uses sensors in your device to detect the ambient light and adjust the display white balance for consistent color.

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  • iOS 12 developer beta 2 contains references hinting towards upcoming Apple Watch models

    With the recent release of the second developer beta of iOS 12 beta 2, a number of new Apple Watch identifiers have been discovered within the system.

    While this is not uncommon, it does hint at some cool next-gen Apple Watch models to be had down the line.

    The new Apple Watch identifiers found are Watch4,1, Watch4,2, Watch4,3 and Watch4,4. Those numbers match the existing variants of the Apple Watch Series 3, which are Watch3,1 through 3,4. There are also references to the model numbers corresponding to the new devices, which include MTUD2, MTUK2, MTX92 and many others.

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  • Rumor: iPhone X Plus screen size discovered via network traffic, device resolution reports

    While Apple didn’t unveil any new hardware at its WWDC 2018 keynote, the rumor mill currently has it that the iPhone X Plus, which is expected later this year, will feature a 6.5-inch OLED screen, making it about as big as the current iPhone 8 Plus.

    Apple started testing iOS 12 builds in the wild as recently as late February, when Google Analytics first picked up visits from devices running iOS 12. The number of visits increased as June approached. It’s likely that Apple engineers tested early iOS 12 builds on various devices well ahead of the WWDC event. And while you can safely test iOS 12 out in the wild if you’re an Apple engineer since regular users will not immediately spot it, you can’t always fool analytics programs.

    Even if some of those were fake iOS 12 devices, a good number of those visits still came from devices that you can quickly identify as iPhones and iPads checking in from Apple. Looking at screen resolution alone, one could easily identify visits from iPhone X, iPhone 8/7/6sPlus/6s/6Plus/6, iPhone 8Plus/7Plus, 12.9-inch iPad Pro, 10.5-inch iPad Pro, iPhone SE, and — finally — iPhone X Plus

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  • Apple’s Craig Federighi says that Apple is “not into touchscreens” for forthcoming Macs

    In as much as you may crave a touchscreen Mac, according to Apple SVP of Software Engineering, Craig Federighi, this probably isn’t in the works.

    Despite Apple’s iOS-to-Mac app porting tools, universal multiplatform apps, and Apple’s announcement that it will start porting some of its own iOS apps to the Mac this year and allow third party developers to do the same next year, touchscreen Macs are probably not on the table.

    When asked if the appearance of iOS apps on the Mac would naturally be followed by the introduction of touchscreen-capable Macs, Federighi showed little enthusiasm, telling Wired‘s Lauren Goode that he’s “not into touchscreens” and doesn’t find the “experiments” with touchscreens in the Windows world compelling.

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