Two New Apple Displays Nearing Mass Production, May Launch This Year

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Apple plans to merchandise 2 caller outer monitors either aboriginal this twelvemonth oregon successful aboriginal 2026, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.

Writing successful his latest Power On newsletter, Gurman said Apple is nearing wide accumulation of the caller Mac outer monitors, which volition beryllium the archetypal clip the institution has revisited the merchandise class since debuting the Apple Studio Display successful 2022.

The 2 monitors are internally code-named J427 and J527. Gurman successful February reported that Apple was "ramping up" enactment connected a caller Studio Display. However, since July, Gurman hasn't specifically linked either codification sanction to a caller Apple Studio Display oregon a caller Pro Display XDR.

For what it's worth, Gurman successful March reported that Apple is moving connected a 2nd caller show code-named J527. At the time, Gurman suggested Apple could beryllium processing 2 versions of the Studio Display and would take 1 to launch, oregon it was processing a 2nd exemplary with a antithetic surface size oregon acceptable of specifications. Apple's high-end Pro Display XDR debuted alongside the Mac Pro successful 2019, and it has not received an update since its launch.

Gurman has not revealed immoderate caller features oregon changes planned for a imaginable Studio Display successor. However, show manufacture expert Ross Young successful January said Apple was processing a new 27-inch show with mini-LEDs that could motorboat successful precocious 2025 oregon aboriginal 2026. Young believes this show could beryllium a caller Studio Display with mini-LED backlighting.

Mini-LED exertion would supply benefits specified arsenic accrued brightness and higher opposition ratio compared to the existent Studio Display with LEDs.

Apple launched the Studio Display alongside the Mac Studio successful 2022. The show features a 5K resolution, 60Hz refresh rate, 600 nits of brightness, built-in camera and speakers, 1 Thunderbolt 3 port, and 3 USB-C ports. Pricing successful the U.S. starts astatine $1,599.