Apple will hold its second product event this month on October 28 at 1PM ET in Los Angeles, and the lineup looks Mac-heavy.
Apple has sent the invites. The product list comes from Bloomberg, which reported that the company will announce new Macs and a refreshed iPad Mini. The headline item is expected to be a MacBook Pro with an OLED touchscreen. It is also said to be lighter than the current model and to include an iPhone-style Dynamic Island, the pill-shaped cutout that holds the front camera and sensors.
The rest of the expected slate: a 14-inch MacBook Pro, and a new iMac running the M6 chip, which Apple recently introduced with the Mac Mini. The iPad Mini is said to get an OLED screen too, with the selfie camera moved to the landscape edge, so it sits at the top when the tablet is held sideways.
If the reports hold, the notable part is the touchscreen. Apple has long kept touch input off the Mac and pushed it toward the iPad. A touch-enabled MacBook Pro would narrow that line, though none of this is confirmed until Apple says so on stage. The Dynamic Island, which debuted on the iPhone in 2022, would also be a visible design change for a laptop.
The M6 detail is worth tracking as well. Putting the chip in the iMac so soon after the Mac Mini suggests Apple is rolling it across the desktop and laptop lines in quick succession rather than in one batch.