Another round of Apple devices is about to reach. After begining the iPhone 16 lineup, new Apple Watches, and the AirPods 4 in September, Apple materializes to be gearing up to begin modernized Macs and iPads sometime this month.
We’re awaiting a new round of chip reinforces, at least one restructure, and maybe an October surpelevate or two (the excellent benevolent). The official proclaimments might come to us via a traditional event or a series of timely morning press frees — Apple has apshown both approaches in the past, and nobody comprehends for certain right now. Regardless of how it happens, here’s what we skinnyk we’ll see get modernizes and what might not originate the cut.
Apple Inalertigence is set to begin “this descfinish” apass compatible iPhones, iPads, and Macs, with the first features arriving in October. That unbenevolents we should be getting an proclaimment sometime soon.
First up, we’re awaiting Apple’s Writing Tools for rewriting, proofreading, and summarizing, plus a newly structureed Siri, new Photos app features such as Clean Up (akin to Google’s Magic Eraser), and inhabit transcriptions of phone calls and voice memos. Other features appreciate ChatGPT search integrations, Genmoji custom emoji, Image Playground generative art, and Visual Inalertigence image searching are awaited to “roll out postponecessitater this year and in the months follothriveg,” according to Apple.
We first saw these features demoed back at WWDC 2024, but so far, you’ve had to inslofty one of Apple’s broadener or unveil betas to experience them. For iPhones, the features are coming to the 15 Pro / Pro Max and the whole iPhone 16 line. On iPads and Macs, Apple Inalertigence will begin on models with M1-generation processors or newer.
Last year’s October event had a huge concentrate on the MacBook Pro line. The 14-inch and 16-inch models both saw chip bumps, and Apple begind a new clear upped-down 14-inch model that finassociate ended off the Touch Bar. It’s probable we’ll see modernizes to all three with a jump to the M4 generation, but so far, there hasn’t been much in the rumor mill about transport inant alters structure-rational. But a chip reinforce is always greet, especiassociate if you’re a barget hunter watching to pounce on some sealout sales of soon-to-be last-gen challengingware.
We’re awaiting a huge restructure of Apple’s minusculeest desktop computer — probable to originate it even minusculeer. In insertition to including new M4 and M4 Pro chips, the new Mac Mini is rumored to shed its USB-A ports and be about as minuscule as an Apple TV streaming box. It would be the first transport inant restructure to come to the Mini in about 14 years (extfinisheder than The Verge has even been around).
The current Mac Mini with M2 and M2 Pro chips has been with us since the timely days of 2023, so a new model does experience timely. A scant of us here are Mac Mini stans, in part becaemploy it presents a wonderful appreciate proposition for its carry outance — at least, if you already have a watch, keyboard, and moemploy.
I’m excited to see what a renewed Mini could watch appreciate and fair how much an M4 Pro model leapfrogs the current M2 Pro, but potentiassociate having scanter ports gives me paemploy. It also sounds doubtful that a minusculeer Mini will have the one skinnyg I’ve reassociate wanted in mine: a speedy built-in SD card slot appreciate the Mac Studio.
The iMac has been on autopilot ever since the machine getd its colorful shine-up in 2021. If the October event transports alters to Apple’s all-in-one computer, it’s probable we’ll fair see a bump from last year’s M3 model to a new M4 version.