Another round of Apple devices is about to arrive. After launching the iPhone 16 lineup, new Apple Watches, and the AirPods 4 in September, Apple appears to be gearing up to introduce updated Macs and iPads sometime this month.

The Apple Silicon M4 was launched in May 2024. For the first time, Apple’s new M series debuted not in a Mac but in an iPad, the seventh generation of the iPad Pro. Mac fans will have been waiting nearly six months for an M4 MacBook when the laptops hit the shelves in November.

Could Apple skip its October event and announce the M4 MacBook Pro using a press release? It’s possible, but it might mean bad things for the M4 chip.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox