Three Upcoming Apple Products Seemingly Spotted in macOS 26.3 Code

macOS 26.3 hints astatine Apple's rumored lower-cost MacBook, and 2 caller Studio Display models, according to Macworld's Filipe Espósito.


Espósito recovered the pursuing codenames wrong macOS 26.3's root code, and helium revealed the upcoming products that they apt correspond with, based connected erstwhile reporting from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman and others.

The codenames:

• J700: Lower-cost MacBook


• J427: A caller Studio Display


• J527: A new, higher-end Studio Display

This is acold from the archetypal clip that these codenames person been spotted successful Apple's bundle updates. According to MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris, the codenames were besides contiguous successful updates specified arsenic macOS 26.2 and iOS 18.5 past year.

As more and more hints stack up, it is wide that each 3 products are inching person to release.

The prevailing presumption is that Apple volition unveil the lower-cost MacBook arsenic portion of 3 days of caller merchandise announcements in the archetypal week of March. The media would past person hands-on clip with the laptop during the "Apple Experience" successful New York, London, and Shanghai connected Wednesday, March 4 astatine 9 a.m. Eastern Time.

The caller Studio Displays are expected to beryllium released in the archetypal fractional of 2026, but it is unclear if they volition beryllium portion of the announcements successful the archetypal week of March.


The lower-cost MacBook is rumored to beryllium powered by a mentation of the iPhone 16 Pro's A18 Pro chip, alternatively than an M-series chip. The laptop volition seemingly beryllium disposable successful a assortment of agleam colors, specified arsenic yellow, green, blue, and/or pink. Other rumored specs see a 12.9-inch show and 8GB of RAM. The starting terms remains to beryllium seen, with estimates ranging from $599 to $799 successful the United States.

At slightest 1 of the caller Studio Display models is rumored to diagnostic a 27-inch surface with mini-LED backlighting, up to a 90Hz oregon 120Hz refresh rate, HDR support, and an A19 chip oregon A19 Pro chip. No large plan changes are expected.

If the adjacent Studio Display receives mini-LED backlighting and HDR support, its maximum brightness and opposition ratio would beryllium higher than the existent model. And a newer A19 oregon A19 Pro spot — up from the A13 Bionic presently — should lend to show improvements, camera-related enhancements, and more.

There are nary details astir the 2nd Studio Display. Presumably, it would beryllium a higher-end model, and we tin lone imagination of a larger 32-inch surface size.

The existent Studio Display launched successful March 2022, alongside the archetypal Mac Studio. It has a 27-inch surface without mini-LED backlighting, a 5K resolution, a 60Hz refresh rate, up to 600 nits brightness, a built-in camera and speakers, 1 Thunderbolt 3 port, and 3 USB-C ports. In the U.S., pricing starts astatine $1,599.

The lower-cost MacBook would beryllium an all-new exemplary positioned beneath the MacBook Air, and it would people a revival of the "MacBook" marque (with nary "Air" oregon "Pro" designation). Apple sold an Intel-based 12-inch "MacBook" from 2015 to 2019.
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