Between miniLED screens and a few main modifications coming in iPadOS 15, Apple’s been steadily revamping its iPad following stellar sales in 2020. The newest rumor? This fall, the iPad Mini will get a refreshed design that removes the house button in favor of slimmer bezels.

In a newsletter by way of 9to5 Mac, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman notes that the brand new Mini “should be a go” for this fall and that it’ll be the “biggest redesign in the nine-year history” of the machine. He additionally mentioned the brand new Mini will sport a brand new processor. This tracks as Apple’s been busy revamping a number of product traces to dovetail with the swap to its personal Apple Silicon. As for what the brand new Mini may appear like, an earlier Gurman report described a tool paying homage to the iPad Air—aka smaller bezels and presumably no dwelling button. Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo additionally famous final yr that the iPad Mini might sport a 7.9-inch miniLED show, very like this yr’s 12.9-inch iPad Pro, however made no reference to a rise in measurement. (miniLED can be purportedly coming to subsequent yr’s 11-inch iPad Pro as properly.) A number of months later, he then mentioned the iPad Mini’s display screen needs to be someplace between 8.5 and 9 inches, up from the present 7.9-inches.

These could be extra important updates than the Fifth-gen iPad Mini, which launched in 2019. That added Apple Pencil assist, in addition to an A12 processor. Plus, the brand new software program upgrades to iPadOS 15 ought to assist the pill develop into a extra viable work machine—a objective Apple’s been chasing for years however hasn’t fairly but managed.

Gurman additionally famous that one other, larger iMac powered by Apple Silicon may additionally be on the best way. We noticed buzz round a large iMac earlier this yr, and initially, that led us to count on one thing within the vein of Apple’s 32-inch Pro Display XDR monitor. What we ended up seeing in Apple’s Spring Loaded occasion was a barely bigger 24-inch M1 iMac in a complete lot of recent colorways. In May, Bloomberg reported the rationale we didn’t see the Big Boy iMac was that Apple paused growth to raised concentrate on its little brother. It’s unclear whether or not the larger iMac shall be prepared in time for fall, however Gurman claims the machine is “en route” and needs to be powered by a more recent processor.

In any case, we seemingly gained’t have to attend for much longer to search out out. The firm usually holds an occasion in September to unveil its newest and biggest merchandise, in addition to push out the latest variations of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS. Last yr was a little bit of an outlier, with three launch occasions as a result of pandemic mucking up product launches left and proper. This yr, we’re nonetheless within the midst of a chip scarcity, however fingers crossed that it’ll be One Big Event in 2021 and never a number of mini-events.

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