Apple Reportedly Plans Touchscreen MacGuide And iPad Mini Launch For This Month
The wait to (actually) get your fingers on the tech might nearly be over.
2026 is popping into a giant 12 months for Apple {hardware} information. According to Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman, the corporate’s first touchscreen laptop computer is predicted to debut “on or round” October 27. So, not a 100-percent strong date for a product announcement, however nonetheless a extra concrete timeframe than we have ever had about Apple’s long-awaited touchscreen laptop computer debut.
Rumors a couple of touchscreen version of Apple’s high-end laptop computer date again to 2023. The more moderen chatter about this system, largely pushed by Gurman’s stories, is that it’s going to have a dynamic interface that adapts to the totally different modes of enter. We’re anticipating the brand new touchscreen MacGuide, probably known as MacBook Ultra, to run on the identical M5 Pro and Max chips as the present high-end MacGuide Pro fashions, as an earlier report advised there won’t be pro-level versions of the new M6 chip.
In addition to touchscreen laptops, the nameless Bloomberg sources stated to anticipate Apple’s presentation to incorporate a redesigned iPad Mini with an OLED show, and smaller updates to the entry degree 14-inch MacGuide Pro and that iMac so as to add the brand new M6 chip that debuted with the Mac mini refresh. The entry-level MacGuide Pro at the moment runs an M5 chip, whereas the iMac is caught on an M4 chip. And that will not be Apple’s solely set of reveals this month; it is also slated to introduce a brand new assortment of smart home gadgets on October 13. This packed occasion schedule follows {the summertime} debut of Apple’s first foldable within the iPhone Duo.
