Apple News 3d Briefing
×Hardware Launches
Apple's iPhone 17e 9to5mac.com and new iPad Air with M4 are now official, with both featuring the company's new C1X modem chip for improved connectivity. The iPad Air's M4 variant, meanwhile, has already surfaced in early benchmarks showing a binned chip with three performance cores 9to5mac.com instead of the full five found in the iPad Pro. Pre-orders for the iPhone 17e, new Studio Displays macrumors.com, and other products begin today at 6:15 a.m. PT, with global timing details now available. Apple has also published its first wave of product videos for these launches, though it opted against a traditional event. The company has simultaneously discontinued seven products 9to5mac.com, including the Pro Display XDR, to make way for the new Studio Display XDR macrumors.com, which adds DICOM medical imaging presets for radiology work.
The new Studio Display XDR macrumors.com and standard Studio Display are not compatible with any Intel-based Macs, limiting them to Apple Silicon machines. Furthermore, achieving the display's full 120Hz refresh rate requires specific newer Macs with M1 Pro or later chips. Apple also designed the new displays' packaging to be fully recyclable macrumors.com, with boxes that collapse to fit standard bins. In a separate leak, Apple appears to have prematurely revealed the name of its upcoming low-cost notebook, the MacBook Neo macrumors.com, with leaked documents detailing its features ahead of the expected announcement. The company is also preparing retail stores for a major rush macrumors.com of customers, especially for the more affordable MacBook.
Software & Updates
Apple seeded the third betas of iOS 26.4 macrumors.com, iPad OS 26.4, watch OS 26.4 macrumors.com, tv OS 26.4, and vision OS 26.4 to developers. The updates follow the second betas by one week and precede the expected public release. iOS 26 itself continues to roll out with changes like a new standalone