Liveblog—All the fun stuff from Apple’s “Unleashed” event

We have rounded the bend in 2021 to October, and you understand what meaning: it is time for a second fall Apple occasion! Final month, we acquired new portables—new watches, new iPhones, new iPads—however of us longing for extra Apple Silicon-powered Macs have been left wanting. If that was you final month, then take coronary heart: at the moment’s occasion may be extra your pace.

Whereas we are able to by no means predict with full accuracy the whole lot that Apple will reveal—the corporate prefers to carry its PR playing cards annoyingly near the chest—there have been some stable clues and leaks. We’re fairly sure we will be seeing some redesigned MacBooks of the 13- and 16-inch selection, and we’re fairly certain these new MacBooks shall be powered by a flowery new model of Apple’s in-house SoC. That new SoC will most likely be referred to as the “M1X,” in keeping with the rumor mill, and we count on it to include extra cores and extra on-board RAM than the M1 SoC that may be present in current-generation MacBooks and Mac minis.

Talking of minis, they’re additionally on the “possibly” checklist—there’s an opportunity we would find yourself seeing an M1X mini, which might give the small desktop a reasonably large punch. If M1X-powered minis do make an look, it will mark the following step in Apple pushing Apple Silicon out to all its computing merchandise. The corporate had beforehand famous in 2020 that this rollout course of was anticipated to take two years, and we’re approaching the midway level.

And what about iMacs? Apple launched a complete rainbow of M1-powered iMacs final 12 months, however they have been all 24-inch fashions, with no bigger display screen choices accessible. We’re hopeful that at the moment Apple will drop some big-screen iMacs operating M1X chips—however that is showing much less possible than the near-certainty of M1X MacBooks.

There may be different neat issues to see at the moment as properly, together with the possible launch (or at the very least a launch date) of macOS Monterey and possibly even some up to date AirPods. Tune in to the liveblog at 10:00 am US Pacific Time (1:00 pm US Jap Time, 5:00 pm UTC) to seek out out!