The first touchscreen Macs are on shelves, with a smart home hub and a new Apple TV following next Friday
Apple released five devices at once on Friday, from an iPad mini with an OLED screen to an iMac with the M6 chip.
Since Friday, five new Apple products have been available in stores and from authorised resellers, after pre-orders opened a week earlier, MacRumors reports. They are the MacBook Pro with an OLED touchscreen in 14 and 16 inches, a standard 14-inch MacBook Pro with the M6 chip, an iMac with M6 and a redesigned iPad mini. Most online orders could arrive on launch day; only the cheapest 14-inch touch model in black has a delivery time of three to four weeks.
The touchscreen MacBook Pro is the first Mac you can operate with a finger and the first MacBook Pro with a two-layer OLED panel, Cult of Mac writes. It is lighter than its predecessor and brings back the illuminated Apple logo. According to Macworld, this range uses the M5 Pro or M5 Max chip and each model costs 400 dollars more than the version without touch, with a starting price of 2,899 dollars. The initial rollout covers thirty countries and regions.
The iPad mini gets an 8.5-inch OLED screen, the A20 Pro chip and water and dust resistance, but becomes 150 dollars more expensive, according to Cult of Mac. The iMac skips the M5 and goes straight from M4 to M6. Apple is not done yet: on 13 November the HomeView smart home hub with a 7-inch screen and a new Apple TV 4K with the A19 chip will follow, MacRumors reports.