The Upcoming Apple Event: What to Expect and Speculate About

Apple's upcoming event on October 18th is just around the corner, and fans are eagerly waiting to see what the company has in store for us. While we can't predict with certainty what will be announced, we can make some educated guesses based on recent rumors and leaks.

One of the most likely products to be announced at the event is a new MacBook Air with Touch ID. The current MacBook Air model has been around for a while, and an upgrade would be welcome. With Touch ID, users would no longer have to worry about their laptop being stolen or compromised by hackers. Apple has already introduced Touch ID on some of its other devices, including the iPhone X and newer models.

In addition to the new MacBook Air, there are rumors that Apple will also announce a new MacMini, a larger iMac, and a new Mac Pro. The new Mac Pro would be a beast of a machine, with 20 or 40 computing core variations, compared to the current M1 chip which has eight computing cores. The new Mac Mini and iMac would likely receive similar upgrades, including improved performance and design.

Another possibility is that Apple will announce new AirPods. While there have been rumors about new AirPods for a while now, there hasn't been much concrete information to back them up. However, recent images of what could be the next-generation AirPods have surfaced online, suggesting that they might look more like the AirPods Pro with a shorter stem and interchangeable ear tips.

It's also possible that Apple will announce new AirPods 3, which would likely feature improved performance and design compared to the current model. However, don't expect any advanced features like active noise cancellation or transparency mode on the regular AirPods.

Finally, there are rumors about a home Pod with a screen, which could potentially overshadow any other announcements. This is a long shot, but it's definitely something that Apple has explored in the past.

In terms of software, Apple is reportedly working on a new version of macOS, codenamed Monterey. We've already seen some previews of this operating system, and it seems to have some exciting features, including improved performance and design. It's possible that we'll see an official release date for Monterey at the event as well.

As for the absolute long shots, there are rumors about Apple working on a car, which has been a topic of speculation for years. While this is highly unlikely, it would be a huge splash if Apple were to finally reveal its plans for a vehicle. There's also talk about Apple's AR glasses, which have been rumored for years but seem like a long shot.

In conclusion, while we can't predict with certainty what will be announced at the upcoming Apple event, there are plenty of rumors and leaks that suggest some exciting new products could be on the horizon. Whether it's a new MacBook Air, updated AirPods, or a home Pod with a screen, there's something for everyone to look forward to.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enapple set an event for october 18th what can you expect let's talk about it apple's senior vp of marketing greg josriak posted a version of the announcement on twitter you can see an apple logo and then it's all light rays like you were in a vehicle flying through space the word unleashed appears and flies by then we get the date of 10 18. apple site has the time set for 10 am pacific and of course that is all we officially know because this is an announcement for an event where other announcements will happen apple rumors are a global pastime at this point so let's talk about what we could be getting we'll be going from most likely to least likely in this video by the way most everyone is expecting new macs which makes sense considering the unleashed tagline of the event we could be seeing those new macbook pros that have been reported by mark german multiple times over at bloomberg right now there are a few models of the macbook pro there's an m1 powered 13 inch model an intel powered 13 inch model and then there's the 16 inch model powered by intel at the october 18th event we could see two new macbook pro models a 14 inch one and a 16 inch one they both would get a new design when it comes to the body of the laptop expect thinner bezels around the displays inside would be new more powerful apple built systems on a chip or soc there are rumors of two different socs the m1x and the m2 they could also be the same chip either way whatever is in the next macbook pros will likely be an improvement on the current m1 line the m1 has four high performance cores four energy efficient cores and eight graphics cores m1 max also supports two thunderbolt ports a new chip would feature eight high performance cores two energy efficient ones and 16 or 32 graphics cores this new chip would also support more thunderbolt ports that is a lot of power apple's own chips have been very very power efficient if the company can get that many cores into its m1 successor i'm curious what if any effect it's going to have on battery life these new chips could allow up to 64 gigabytes of ram the m1 maxes out at 16 so this would be a very large jump that plays into the unleashed tagline as well the new laptops could also have some other ports this could be a function of the new socs by the way reports say there will be dedicated hdmi and sd card ports these would be extremely useful for any computer user and would bring back things that probably belong on a laptop with the pro designation apple's magnetic charging tech magsafe would also return in these laptops magsafe used to be standard on apple's older laptops the whole idea behind the tech would be to save your laptop in case you trip over the cable you catch the cable as you trip the cable pops off the laptop without the expensive machine dropping to the earth in horrible slow motion magsafe got the boot for macbooks with the switch to usb c for charging apple brought back magsafe for the iphone 12 that was more in name than anything else this was large and the magnets were to align wireless charging surfaces the macbook mag safe used a pin system for power let's talk about the touch bar also known as the control strip the new macbook pros would be ditching the little touch screen in 2016 apple introduced the touch bar to replace the row of function keys it would give you menus sliders and tools that could be changed per app the idea is not that bad the problem was replacing the function keys that people relied on to do things like changing the volume or keyboard shortcuts the touch bar made you have to look at the virtual keys instead of relying on touch alone physical function keys would be really nice i'd imagine the top row would look like that of the macbook air with touch id staying on the right side oh and even though these macs would be able to run ios and ipad apps i do not believe any reports have said the new macbook pros would feature touch screens we could be getting new airpods the first generation airpods came out in september 2016. the second gen was march 2019. the pro was october 2019 with the max arriving in december of 2020 so as you can see there's no real timing pattern when it comes to airpod releases however the airpods 3 were rumored to be released several times in the past year or so maybe we'll see them at the october 18th event there have been a lot of images online of what could be the airpods 3. they would look more like the airpods pro thanks to a shorter stem they might even get interchangeable ear tips like the pro however don't expect more advanced features like active noise cancellation and transparency mode on the regular airpods this is likely apple's last event for the year so if we don't get new airpods now we may not get them until next year the macbook pros and new airpods are the most likely products of the event we've also already seen previews of the newest version of mac os that's monterey you would think that apple's newest max would have monterey on board maybe we'll get an official release date for that os at the event too now let's talk about what else we could see but are a little less likely bloomberg's mark german has reported that apple is working on a number of new macs including a new macbook air a new mac mini a larger imac and a new mac pro german said that the new macbook air could be released as early as this year this laptop would be powered by what german called a direct successor to the m1 it would have the same amount of computing cores but run faster there may be more graphics course too the 13-inch macbook pro would also get that soc on the desktop front a new mac pro is rumored but not until next year this thing would be a beast with 20 or 40 computing core variations for comparison the current m1 has eight computing cores for graphic scores the new mac pros would have either 64 or 128 cores for comparison the m1 has eight would apple introduce all of those new macs at once i could see us getting something like a preview of a new mac pro like apple did in the past however i wouldn't expect all of these devices to be available this year and let's talk about the absolute long shots there are a number of other devices apple has been reportedly working on for years i am unsure if we'll see any of the following products on the 18th the apple car this has been rumored and rumored and rumored for several years would apple make a huge splash and finally show off its vehicle i mean let's look at that animated invite it's like you're speeding forward like maybe in a car i would say this is highly unlikely for this event because the rumor mill would be all over this but it kind of fits the whole unleashed thing well you know you think about it your horse driven carriages they have leashes i guess remove the leash and you got no horse now you're left with a carriage like a car yeah so no i don't think we're going to see the apple car then there's also apple's ar glasses cnet shard tipton broke the news that apple was working on a powerful wireless headset for both augmented reality and virtual reality we've seen apple build up its augmented reality features in its iphones and ipads over the past few years i think this is also a long shot for the same reason as the car and then there's a chance we could see a home pod with a screen this would overshadow nothing and could easily be dropped into the event without anyone batting an eye what do you want to see from apple at this event will you be sad if the touch bar goes away let us know don't forget to hit subscribe and that notification bell because we will have live coverage of apple's event as it happens the google pixel event is the next day and we'll have that live too plus we'll have reviews of whatever apple shows off as soon as we get our hands on the new devices if the new macbook pros are as reported i think this would be a great step forward for apple the macbook pros seemed less than pro when compared to apple's older machines something as simple as more ports makes it easier to use a device especially the sd card reader a new body design would also be welcome as pc makers have really pushed things forward that does it for us i'm maya zakhtar and i will see you onlineapple set an event for october 18th what can you expect let's talk about it apple's senior vp of marketing greg josriak posted a version of the announcement on twitter you can see an apple logo and then it's all light rays like you were in a vehicle flying through space the word unleashed appears and flies by then we get the date of 10 18. apple site has the time set for 10 am pacific and of course that is all we officially know because this is an announcement for an event where other announcements will happen apple rumors are a global pastime at this point so let's talk about what we could be getting we'll be going from most likely to least likely in this video by the way most everyone is expecting new macs which makes sense considering the unleashed tagline of the event we could be seeing those new macbook pros that have been reported by mark german multiple times over at bloomberg right now there are a few models of the macbook pro there's an m1 powered 13 inch model an intel powered 13 inch model and then there's the 16 inch model powered by intel at the october 18th event we could see two new macbook pro models a 14 inch one and a 16 inch one they both would get a new design when it comes to the body of the laptop expect thinner bezels around the displays inside would be new more powerful apple built systems on a chip or soc there are rumors of two different socs the m1x and the m2 they could also be the same chip either way whatever is in the next macbook pros will likely be an improvement on the current m1 line the m1 has four high performance cores four energy efficient cores and eight graphics cores m1 max also supports two thunderbolt ports a new chip would feature eight high performance cores two energy efficient ones and 16 or 32 graphics cores this new chip would also support more thunderbolt ports that is a lot of power apple's own chips have been very very power efficient if the company can get that many cores into its m1 successor i'm curious what if any effect it's going to have on battery life these new chips could allow up to 64 gigabytes of ram the m1 maxes out at 16 so this would be a very large jump that plays into the unleashed tagline as well the new laptops could also have some other ports this could be a function of the new socs by the way reports say there will be dedicated hdmi and sd card ports these would be extremely useful for any computer user and would bring back things that probably belong on a laptop with the pro designation apple's magnetic charging tech magsafe would also return in these laptops magsafe used to be standard on apple's older laptops the whole idea behind the tech would be to save your laptop in case you trip over the cable you catch the cable as you trip the cable pops off the laptop without the expensive machine dropping to the earth in horrible slow motion magsafe got the boot for macbooks with the switch to usb c for charging apple brought back magsafe for the iphone 12 that was more in name than anything else this was large and the magnets were to align wireless charging surfaces the macbook mag safe used a pin system for power let's talk about the touch bar also known as the control strip the new macbook pros would be ditching the little touch screen in 2016 apple introduced the touch bar to replace the row of function keys it would give you menus sliders and tools that could be changed per app the idea is not that bad the problem was replacing the function keys that people relied on to do things like changing the volume or keyboard shortcuts the touch bar made you have to look at the virtual keys instead of relying on touch alone physical function keys would be really nice i'd imagine the top row would look like that of the macbook air with touch id staying on the right side oh and even though these macs would be able to run ios and ipad apps i do not believe any reports have said the new macbook pros would feature touch screens we could be getting new airpods the first generation airpods came out in september 2016. the second gen was march 2019. the pro was october 2019 with the max arriving in december of 2020 so as you can see there's no real timing pattern when it comes to airpod releases however the airpods 3 were rumored to be released several times in the past year or so maybe we'll see them at the october 18th event there have been a lot of images online of what could be the airpods 3. they would look more like the airpods pro thanks to a shorter stem they might even get interchangeable ear tips like the pro however don't expect more advanced features like active noise cancellation and transparency mode on the regular airpods this is likely apple's last event for the year so if we don't get new airpods now we may not get them until next year the macbook pros and new airpods are the most likely products of the event we've also already seen previews of the newest version of mac os that's monterey you would think that apple's newest max would have monterey on board maybe we'll get an official release date for that os at the event too now let's talk about what else we could see but are a little less likely bloomberg's mark german has reported that apple is working on a number of new macs including a new macbook air a new mac mini a larger imac and a new mac pro german said that the new macbook air could be released as early as this year this laptop would be powered by what german called a direct successor to the m1 it would have the same amount of computing cores but run faster there may be more graphics course too the 13-inch macbook pro would also get that soc on the desktop front a new mac pro is rumored but not until next year this thing would be a beast with 20 or 40 computing core variations for comparison the current m1 has eight computing cores for graphic scores the new mac pros would have either 64 or 128 cores for comparison the m1 has eight would apple introduce all of those new macs at once i could see us getting something like a preview of a new mac pro like apple did in the past however i wouldn't expect all of these devices to be available this year and let's talk about the absolute long shots there are a number of other devices apple has been reportedly working on for years i am unsure if we'll see any of the following products on the 18th the apple car this has been rumored and rumored and rumored for several years would apple make a huge splash and finally show off its vehicle i mean let's look at that animated invite it's like you're speeding forward like maybe in a car i would say this is highly unlikely for this event because the rumor mill would be all over this but it kind of fits the whole unleashed thing well you know you think about it your horse driven carriages they have leashes i guess remove the leash and you got no horse now you're left with a carriage like a car yeah so no i don't think we're going to see the apple car then there's also apple's ar glasses cnet shard tipton broke the news that apple was working on a powerful wireless headset for both augmented reality and virtual reality we've seen apple build up its augmented reality features in its iphones and ipads over the past few years i think this is also a long shot for the same reason as the car and then there's a chance we could see a home pod with a screen this would overshadow nothing and could easily be dropped into the event without anyone batting an eye what do you want to see from apple at this event will you be sad if the touch bar goes away let us know don't forget to hit subscribe and that notification bell because we will have live coverage of apple's event as it happens the google pixel event is the next day and we'll have that live too plus we'll have reviews of whatever apple shows off as soon as we get our hands on the new devices if the new macbook pros are as reported i think this would be a great step forward for apple the macbook pros seemed less than pro when compared to apple's older machines something as simple as more ports makes it easier to use a device especially the sd card reader a new body design would also be welcome as pc makers have really pushed things forward that does it for us i'm maya zakhtar and i will see you online\n"