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NO

NO

It will run MacOS

It will cost <= US $800

It will be available in at least two non-monochromatic colors

It will cost <= $700

It will have a screen smaller than 13"

It will have the same dimensions, weight and screen as the M4 MacBook Air.

It will have no more than 8gb RAM.

YES

YES

NO

YES

>= 6.85" display

>= 8x optical zoom

a Thunderbolt 4 or USB4 port

>= 3 high-performance cores

>= 130% mAh battery of next-tier iPhone

greater optical zoom than next-tier iPhone

more high-performance cores than next-tier iPhone

Special LLM capabilities (e.g. extra cache for LLM weights near a Neural Engine)

2 TB storage option

>= 1.5x RAM of next-tier iPhone

>= 12 GB RAM

>= 1.5x transistors of next-tier iPhone

No physical buttons https://www.macrumors.com/2025/10/28/20th-anniversary-iphone-solid-state-buttons/

officially supports a desktop-like experience when used with external displays (~same web app experience as MacOS Safari)

a Thunderbolt 3 port

a Quantum Random Number Generator (QRNG) chip

special LLM capabilities beyond next-tier iPhone. Just 2x inference volume wouldn't count.

split-screen multi-tasking

more external buttons than next-tier iPhone

>= 2 USB-C ports

Touch ID

YES

Before August 2026

Before July 2026

Before March 2026

Before April 2026

Before May 2026

Before June 2026

Before February 2026

NO

NO