Apple's About to Announce New Laptops — Follow Along for Live Updates

This is CNBC's unrecorded blog covering Apple's online lawsuit wherever it's expected to unveil caller MacBook Pro laptops. It mightiness besides denote caller AirPods, a merchandise day for its macOS Monterey bundle and more.

Apple is hosting a streaming lawsuit astatine 1 p.m. ET wherever it's expected to denote caller laptops. Apple has been transitioning its Mac computers distant from Intel to its ain chips. CEO Tim Cook said successful June its M1 chips person helped substance Mac growth. On Monday, Apple whitethorn denote a successor to that spot that volition powerfulness caller MacBook Pro computers.

The company's AirPods are acceptable for a refresh, truthful those are possible, though caller headphones were besides anticipated up of its iPhone lawsuit successful September and, ultimately, weren't announced. We should besides get a merchandise day for Apple's caller macOS Monterey operating system, which was announced successful June but isn't yet available.

We'll supply unrecorded updates below, but you tin besides ticker Apple's watercourse close here:

Expect a caller Apple processor for Mac

The event's tagline, "unleashed," astir apt refers to Apple's chips, and Apple's plans to denote caller processors with further graphics power. Apple's Mac computers stay strategically important for Apple due to the fact that apps for iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, and Apple Watch apps tin lone beryllium created connected Mac computers.

Apple tin support its Mac income momentum going if its caller computers with high-end processing powerfulness are amended for moving aggravated applications similar 3D modeling. Customers volition besides ticker intimately to spot if Apple adds further ports beyond the USB-C connections connected existent MacBooks which are utilized some for charging and attaching peripherals. Apple could take to re-introduce HDMI ports for connecting the machine to TVs and monitors, and bring backmost the magnetic charging connector that was dropped from astir Apple laptops astir 5 years ago.

We'll besides find retired the sanction of the caller chips and however Apple plans to marketplace them. Last year's spot was called the M1, for example.

— Kif Leswing

The unit is on

I deliberation there's going to beryllium a batch of other unit connected Apple to present a genuinely "pro" MacBook.

A small past lesson.

Apple past did a large MacBook Pro redesign successful 2016, and the merchandise enactment has suffered from a plague of issues and controversies. The busted keyboards. The removal of ports professionals love, similar SD representation paper and HDMI ports. A touchscreen alternatively of carnal keys connected the keyboard. And truthful on.

Now it's clip for a reset. Apple volition reverse people connected galore of its arguable MacBook decisions, according to astir credible rumors up of Monday's event. Let's spot however the pros respond.

--Steve Kovach

Apple CEO Tim Cook tweets photograph of office astatine sunrise

Apple CEO Tim Cook tweeted a photograph of the company's headquarters, Apple Park successful Cupertino, California, astatine sunrise.

But dissimilar successful erstwhile years, Cook does not request to beryllium astatine Apple's office to get acceptable for a unrecorded show. Monday's motorboat volition beryllium held virtually done a live-stream video connected Apple's website and YouTube, and the virtual motorboat events truthful acold person been pre-recorded.

Apple has not held in-person motorboat events since the commencement of the pandemic. — Kif Leswing