Another information of Apple devices is astir to arrive. After launching the iPhone 16 lineup, caller Apple Watches, and the AirPods 4 successful September, Apple appears to beryllium gearing up to present updated Macs and iPads sometime this month.
We’re expecting a caller information of spot upgrades, astatine slightest 1 redesign, and possibly an October astonishment aliases 2 (the bully kind). The charismatic announcements mightiness travel to america via a accepted arena aliases a bid of early greeting property releases — Apple has taken some approaches successful the past, and cipher knows for definite correct now. Regardless of really it happens, here’s what we deliberation we’ll spot get updates and what mightiness not make the cut.
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Apple Intelligence whitethorn yet (start to) launch
Apple Intelligence is group to motorboat “this fall” crossed compatible iPhones, iPads, and Macs, pinch the first features arriving successful October. That intends we should beryllium getting an announcement sometime soon.
First up, we’re expecting Apple’s Writing Tools for rewriting, proofreading, and summarizing, positive a recently designed Siri, caller Photos app features specified arsenic Clean Up (akin to Google’s Magic Eraser), and unrecorded transcriptions of telephone calls and sound memos. Other features for illustration ChatGPT hunt integrations, Genmoji civilization emoji, Image Playground generative art, and Visual Intelligence image searching are expected to “roll retired later this twelvemonth and successful the months following,” according to Apple.
We first saw these features demoed backmost astatine WWDC 2024, but truthful far, you’ve had to instal 1 of Apple’s developer aliases nationalist betas to acquisition them. For iPhones, the features are coming to the 15 Pro / Pro Max and the full iPhone 16 line. On iPads and Macs, Apple Intelligence will motorboat connected models pinch M1-generation processors aliases newer.
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MacBook Pros pinch newer chips
Last year’s October arena had a large attraction connected the MacBook Pro line. The 14-inch and 16-inch models some saw spot bumps, and Apple introduced a caller stripped-down 14-inch model that yet killed disconnected the Touch Bar. It’s apt we’ll spot updates to each 3 pinch a jump to the M4 generation, but truthful far, location hasn’t been overmuch successful the rumor mill astir awesome changes design-wise. But a spot upgrade is ever welcome, particularly if you’re a bargain huntsman looking to pounce connected immoderate closeout income of soon-to-be last-gen hardware.
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A full new, moreover smaller Mac Mini
We’re expecting a large redesign of Apple’s smallest desktop machine — apt to make it moreover smaller. In summation to including caller M4 and M4 Pro chips, the caller Mac Mini is rumored to shed its USB-A ports and beryllium astir arsenic mini arsenic an Apple TV streaming box. It would beryllium the first awesome redesign to travel to the Mini successful astir 14 years (longer than The Verge has moreover been around).
The existent Mac Mini pinch M2 and M2 Pro chips has been pinch america since the early days of 2023, truthful a caller exemplary does consciousness timely. A fewer of america present are Mac Mini stans, successful portion because it offers a awesome worth proposition for its capacity — astatine least, if you already person a monitor, keyboard, and mouse.
I’m excited to spot what a refreshed Mini could look for illustration and conscionable really overmuch an M4 Pro exemplary leapfrogs the existent M2 Pro, but perchance having less ports gives maine pause. It besides sounds improbable that a smaller Mini will person the 1 point I’ve really wanted successful mine: a speedy built-in SD paper slot for illustration the Mac Studio.
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The iMac gets a caller spot — and possibly immoderate USB-C accessories
The iMac has been on autopilot ever since the instrumentality received its colorful glow-up successful 2021. If the October arena brings changes to Apple’s all-in-one computer, it’s apt we’ll conscionable spot a bump from past year’s M3 model to a caller M4 version.
The existent item whitethorn beryllium refreshed versions of Apple’s Magic Mouse, Magic Trackpad, and Magic Keyboard that usage USB-C alternatively of Lightning. They’re among the last Apple devices to still usage the Lightning larboard and consciousness sorely retired of spot now that the iPhone has switched complete (and arsenic the EU’s deadline to move to USB-C creeps closer).
I’m still holding retired dream for a bigger iMac refresh sometime down the road. Somebody aftermath maine erstwhile we yet get the long-rumored 32-inch iMac aliases a resurrection of the iMac Pro.
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The iPad Mini gets an overdue update
If Apple has immoderate updated tablets successful store, the exemplary astir owed for immoderate changes is the iPad Mini. The existent 8.3-inch iPad Mini came retired backmost successful 2021, moving the A15 Bionic processor we first saw pinch the iPhone 13 generation. Perhaps it’s clip for pilots everyplace to rejoice arsenic the tiniest iPad steps up to an M-series chip? Rumors propose a refresh is coming — the mobility is whether the Mini steps up to the large leagues pinch the M4 aliases gets relegated to the still-kicking M2 for illustration the latest iPad Air. Either way, thing is amended than what happened to the mini iPhones.
There are besides rumblings that Apple could update the entry-level 10.9-inch iPad to a caller 11th-gen model, but it’s not clear if this update is successful the cards for this period aliases sometime early adjacent year. The current 10th-gen exemplary launched astatine a pricey $449, but Apple course-corrected by slashing its starting price to $349 earlier this year. An 11th-gen exemplary will apt look very similar, though it mightiness beryllium an opportunity for Apple to cleanable up and update its messy accessories situation.
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What other mightiness popular up?
The M4 processor debuted 5 months ago successful the latest iPad Pros, and arsenic mentioned above, Apple is expected to denote its latest chips are yet making the jump to astir Macs successful the coming weeks.
But will we spot immoderate M4 Max aliases M4 Ultra chips debut successful refreshes of the Mac Studio and Mac Pro? Those pro-oriented machines are still connected the M2 Max and M2 Ultra, truthful they’re owed for an upgrade. But rumors of caller models person been beautiful nonexistent truthful far. Plus, getting caller chips crossed the entire line of Macs each astatine erstwhile whitethorn beryllium excessively overmuch of a agelong changeable — Apple has a way grounds of spacing things out.