Apple's New iPad Mini, MacBook Pros and iMac Start Landing on Doorsteps

Apple's late-October product blitz has officially graduated from keynote slides to cardboard boxes. The new iPad mini, iMac and MacBook Pro models are now arriving at customers' homes around the world, with early recipients flooding social media with unboxing photos and first impressions.

The iPad mini got its reveal on October 26, and it's a meaningful jump: the tiny tablet now runs on the A20 Pro chip and finally swaps in an OLED display. A day later, Apple pulled the wraps off the M6 iMac, marking the desktop lineup's first refresh since 2024.

That same day brought two MacBook Pro announcements. One is the MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display — essentially an M5 MacBook Pro, but with a touchscreen thrown in for anyone who's been waiting on that. The other is the M6 MacBook Pro lineup, packing Apple's newest Silicon chips.

US buyers who preordered will start getting their deliveries Friday morning as couriers hit their routes, according to AppleInsider. Apple Stores are also opening the doors for in-store pickup and straight walk-in purchases, so nobody has to wait on a truck.

The social media posts aren't just bragging rights — they're giving everyone still waiting on their own delivery an early, unfiltered look at the hardware before it shows up. For Apple, it's the first real-world feedback on a product wave that touched nearly every corner of its lineup.