Seven products, one month, and no event date. 9to5Mac's tally of what Apple has left for October runs from a touchscreen MacBook to a third HomePod, all of it rumored, most of it traced to Bloomberg, and none of it on an invitation yet. The iPhone Duo is the only October date Apple has said out loud, and that's a ship date, not an event.
The list, as 9to5Mac has it: the MacBook Ultra, a high-end redesign with a touchscreen and an OLED display; an M6 MacBook Pro for the 14-inch base model; an M6 iMac in new colors; an Apple TV 4K on an A19 or A19 Pro with Siri AI and a new Siri Remote; a home hub with a screen, called HomePad or HomePod Touch depending on the leak; a HomePod mini 2 with a faster chip; and a full-size HomePod 3 with Siri AI. An OLED iPad mini on an A19 Pro or A20 Pro rides along as the eighth, via Bloomberg.
Sort that by how firmly it's sourced and it splits in two. Bloomberg has the M6 MacBook Pro and the M6 iMacs as an October habit rather than a leak, the OLED iPad mini by the end of the month, and the Apple TV, HomePod mini, and home hub as September-or-October, with Apple's own stores reportedly rearranging for the home launches, per MacRumors. The Apple TV code that surfaced this week backs the chip claim.
The other two are the ones worth doubting. The same Bloomberg reporting that puts the base MacBook Pro in October puts the touchscreen OLED model, on M5 Pro and M5 Max silicon, somewhere between the end of the year and early 2027, and has the home hub arriving anywhere from October to early next year. 9to5Mac writes both into October; the origin doesn't. If the month ends with two Macs, a tablet, and a set-top box, the reporting will have been right and the headline count wrong.
The split is the useful part for anyone deciding whether to wait. A base MacBook Pro or an OLED iPad mini is a wait of weeks. iPhoners eyeing a touchscreen MacBook are looking at months, with a real chance of a slip, and Apple hasn't sent an invitation for any of it. October usually gets a press-release week and sometimes an event; this year's list needs both.
