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mattinoz said:

PickUrPoison said:

netrox said:

Oh the buttons being so close is a great decision. It helps you know quickly which "side" the buttons are.

And possibly how to pick it up for correct orientation for FaceID. It could be that FaceID requires a button (portrait) or buttons (landscape) on the top edge to unlock; button(s) oriented on the bottom edge might be “upside down”, and not work. 

iPad with touchID works in any orrientation if FaceID doesn't/can't match that it shouldn't ship. 

It hasn’t worked in any orientation on the iPhone X/XS and it’s been shipping for two (model) years. We already know FaceID works in portrait and landscape on the iPad, and that might be due to having TrueDepth camera system on both a long and short edge. 360° unlock orientation is a nice to have, but not a necessity—I’d say the same about TouchID, though it’s trivial to do 360° unlock with TouchID.

simply258 said:

I think it’s safe to say we’ll see a Liquid Retina display rather than OLED.

No doubt. An OLED display would make it much more expensive. It’s at least two or three years away I think. 

ascii said:

PickUrPoison said:

ascii said:

An iMac Pro update would make sense because the whole point of that model was to show pros that Apple still cared about them, and it would need to be regularly updated to carry that message.

What components could be updated? Intel hasn’t refreshed the CPUs Apple uses yet. 

They haven't refreshed them but they have announced a new addition to the line, the Xeon W 3175X with 28-cores (previous highest being 18 cores). It's not shipping until December but a new 28-core iMac Pro could ship then. 

Also AMD is keynoting CES on Jan 9 and is expected to announce the worlds first 7nm GPUs. When the original iMac Pro was announced at WWDC 2017 it included an as yet unreleased GPU (the Vega 56/64 was not yet out).

And it would also need whatever non-CPU and GPU upgrades the standard iMac gets. I am thinking/hoping for an HDR screen given that Apple sells HDR content on the iTunes Store, some iDevices already have this, and it would enable creative pros to create/preview HDR content.

The 3175-X wouldn’t be usable by Apple in iMac Pro, it’s a $10,000 265W part (not 140W like the other CPUs in the iMac Pro) but more particularly, as Tenthousandthings points out above, it would require a re-designed logic board. 

re: graphics update announcing is one thing but it depends on when AMD can actually deliver. There have been rather long lag times between those two events in the past.

You make a good point with the display, I could see it being updated immediately. But I think we’re probably looking at an 18-24 month refresh cycle for iMac Pro, and most likely it would include CPU and GPU updates. 

hentaiboy said:

How come no leaks yet? Apple’s iPad Division must be more secure than their Cellphone Division...

There have been iPad Pro leaks, including dimensions that indicate 9mm bezels all around on both an updated 12.9” and an 11.0” model (replacing the 10.5”). If the leaked dimensions are correct, display resolution stays the same on the 12.9”, while the 11.0” model gets a new 10:7 aspect ratio that would indicate a resolution of approx 2384x1668. Supposedly USB-C replaces the Lightning jack. FaceID will operate in both landscape and portrait. New magnetic connector. A12X, sub-6mm thickness.

btw there was another leak that indicated the 10.5” model stayed with the same display and does not become 11.0” but the exterior dimensions supplied with that rumor were not consistent with a 10.5” display. So I tend to believe the 11.0” rumor. 

ascii said:

An iMac Pro update would make sense because the whole point of that model was to show pros that Apple still cared about them, and it would need to be regularly updated to carry that message.

What components could be updated? Intel hasn’t refreshed the CPUs Apple uses yet.