Apple has already had a occupied week. On Monday, it announced a new iPad Mini alongside an upgraded OLED display, and on Tuesday, we got M6 part upgrades for the MacBook Pro and iMac. The Macs are the definition of iterative updates — they’re quiescent refreshes that appearance fair akin their straightforward predecessors. But today have to be a entire lot additional interesting.
At an event in Los Angeles, Apple is expected to debut a revamped MacBook Pro alongside a touchscreen display. This would be the archetypal touchscreen on a Mac (not counting the beleaguered Touch Bar). Touchscreen laptops are item Apple executives have criticized for concerning as lengthy as the iPad has existed. But following all this time, Apple is expected to provision in to the expanding petition to let group tap and rub at a MacBook screen.
We’re current on the ground, looking onward to touching those MacBooks (and all the another new Apple products) as we go hands-on. This is a extremely distinct event than what you power anticipate at an iPhone initiate or WWDC. For one, we’re at an event area in Los Angeles, not Apple Park in Cupertino. There’s no community livestream available. And there are fair two of us current from The Verge — yours really and our video manufacturer Owen Grove. Some of our distant colleagues volition be hanging out in the live blog, too.
Today is expected to be a lot akin the MacBook Neo initiate before this twelvemonth in New York City, which had an in-person-only keynote display enduring small than 10 minutes before we were unleashed in the hands-on area. So this power be a abbreviated and saccharine one. Buckle in, it have to be fun.
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