Apple launched virtually 30 new {hardware} merchandise in 2024. This is a glance again at precisely what we bought this 12 months.
Excluding Imaginative and prescient Professional, Apple’s 2024 {hardware} releases largely marked a 12 months of regular refinement. It wasn’t a 12 months of huge overhauls throughout the board, but it surely did characteristic some key themes.
The Imaginative and prescient Professional, launched in February, stands out as Apple’s greatest product launch. Whereas its $3,499 price ticket retains it squarely in early-adopter territory, Apple’s first spatial computing system supplies a touch at the place the corporate expects expertise to maneuver over the approaching years. Regardless of each pleasure and criticism surrounding its capabilities, it is clear that 2024 was about laying the muse, with its true affect more likely to unfold within the years to come back.
With minor refreshes to the MacBook Air and iPad Air, and no new {hardware} releases at WWDC, the star of the primary half of the 12 months was undoubtedly the iPad Professional, which gained OLED shows, a thinner design, the M4 chip, an all-new Magic Keyboard, a panorama front-facing digicam, and extra.
February
March
- MacBook Air 13-inch (M3)
- MacBook Air 15-inch (M3)
Might
- iPad Air 11-inch (M2)
- iPad Air 13-inch (M2)
- iPad Professional 11-inch (M4)
- iPad Professional 13-inch (M4)
- Magic Keyboard for iPad Professional
- Apple Pencil Professional
July
September
October
- iPad mini (A17 Professional)
- Magic Mouse 2 (USB-C)
- Magic Trackpad 2 (USB-C)
- Magic Keyboard (second technology, USB-C)
- Magic Keyboard with Contact ID (USB-C)
- Magic Keyboard with Contact ID and Numeric Keypad (USB-C)
November
- iMac (24-inch, M4, 2024)
- Mac mini (M4 and M4 Professional, 2024)
- MacBook Professional (M4, M4 Professional, and M4 Max) (14-inch, 2024)
- MacBook Professional (M4 Professional and M4 Max) (16-inch, 2024)
Within the second half of the 12 months, Apple nearly accomplished its transition to USB-C with the long-awaited refresh of the AirPods, AirPods Max, Magic Keyboard, Magic Trackpad, and Magic Mouse. All that is left is the iPhone SE, which is now anticipated round March 2025.
The corporate additionally launched new iPhone and Apple Watch fashions as typical within the fall, adopted by a minor iPad mini refresh that added the A17 Professional chip and extra reminiscence for Apple Intelligence assist. The iPhone 16 lineup targeted on Apple Intelligence and the Digicam Management, whereas the Apple Watch Collection 10 noticed the introduction of a extra refined design and sleep apnea detection.
Closing out the 12 months, Apple turned its consideration to its Mac lineup. The M4 household of chips made its strategy to the iMac, MacBook Professional, and Mac mini, with the latter receiving a whole redesign for the primary time in effectively over a decade. Subsequent as much as achieve M4 chips are the MacBook Air, Mac Studio, and Mac Professional in 2025.
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