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Apple has begun inviting selected members of the media to an all-day product launch experience in Los Angeles on Wednesday, October 28, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, who shared the news on X. MacRumors relayed the report on October 15. Apple has not publicly announced the event or confirmed any of the products involved.

Gurman described the gathering as a launch experience for touchscreen MacBook Pros, a new iPad mini and Macs with M6 chips. That points to a hands-on format rather than a traditional live-streamed keynote, a shift that fits his earlier reporting that Apple would introduce the devices on or around Tuesday, October 27 with an online video presentation, followed by in-person access for press and creators.

Apple announced new Mac mini and Mac Studio models on August 25, an unusual time of year for Mac hardware. Pre-orders opened right away, with deliveries and in-store availability from September 22.

The Mac mini now comes with either the new M6 or an M5 Pro. TidBITS describes the M6 as Apple's first chip on a 2-nanometer process, with a 12-core CPU and a 12-core GPU that includes Neural Accelerators. Apple says multithreaded CPU performance is about 1.2 times that of the M5. Both Mac mini versions gain Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6 and Thread support through the N1 chip, and 2.5Gb Ethernet is standard.