What to expect from Apple’s “Spring Loaded” event on April 20 - Ars Technica

That said, the scribbled lines that make up the Apple logo above look like the work of an Apple Pencil, one of the key accessories for the iPad.

Below: Photos of the 2020 iPad Pro from our review.

Apple may also choose to update the cameras in the iPad Pro, and a third-generation Apple Pencil accessory is not outside the realm of possibility.

Given that Apple has more recently updated the other iPads in the lineup, the iPad mini is the only non-Pro iPad we see as a possibility for this event.

Below: The current iPad mini, from our most recent review.

If Apple does update it, the mini will probably have a more recent chip—most likely the A14 we saw in last year's iPhone lineup.

It's also possible that Apple could add support for newer, better version of the Apple Pencil, as the current mini only supports the previous iteration.

We believe this event will focus primarily on the iPad, but Apple did commit last summer to update its entire Mac product line to replace Intel's chips with Apple Silicon within two years from that date.

We're coming up on one year in, and so far Apple has just updated the low-end configurations of the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac mini.

Below: The M1-equipped Mac mini from our review last year.

We're just speculating here, but it's possible that Apple will do the same thing it did with the laptops last year: start with an M1-equipped lower-end iMac before bringing out a much faster high-end model with an "M1X"-type chip alongside the new MacBook Pro models later.