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The headliner for the week was Wednesday's introduction of the MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display. It's a mouthful, but it's the culmination of several years of rumors about a MacBook Pro with an OLED touchscreen, plus it includes several other upgrades such as lighter weights, a reinforced hinge to stabilize the display while it's being touched, a Dynamic Island instead of a notch, and even the return of an illuminated Apple logo on the lid.

The new machines are being sold alongside the previous MacBook Pro models with mini-LED displays, with the PROLED models carrying $400 price premiums over their counterparts even though they use the same M5 Pro and M5 Max chip options.
 

The low end of the MacBook Pro family also got an update this week, with Apple announcing a speed-bumped M6 version of the 14-inch base model.

The M6 chip in the ‌MacBook Pro‌ features a 12-core CPU with 2 super cores, 4 performance cores, and 6 efficiency cores, paired with a 12-core GPU. This is up from the M5 chip with a 10-core CPU with 4 super cores and 6 efficiency cores, paired with a 10-core GPU.

Alongside the M6 chip, the new 14-inch ‌MacBook Pro‌ now features support for Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6 connectivity via Apple's N1 wireless chip. It can also now drive dual external 4K displays at up to 165Hz, up from 144Hz.
 

The 24-inch iMac also got a speed bump this week, with Apple's all-in-one desktop moving from the M4 chip to the M6 for faster performance and adding an N1 chip with Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6 support, faster SSD speeds, and more.

The new iMac has the same design as the previous model, and the color options remain the same: blue, green, pink, yellow, purple, orange, and silver.
 

This week wasn't all about the Mac lineup, with Apple also taking the wraps off of a redesigned iPad mini featuring a larger 8.5-inch display that uses OLED technology for the first time.

In addition, the new iPad mini features a thinner and lighter design, an A20 Pro chip, a new Acoustic Display audio system that eliminates speaker holes, IP67-rated water and dust resistance, a landscape front camera, Apple's N1 chip with Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6 support, and more. Altogether, Apple says this amounts to the iPad mini's "biggest update ever."
 

When Apple introduced the M5 Max and M5 Ultra Mac Studio back in August, it said that a high-end M5 Ultra option with 512GB of memory would become available in late October, and it's finally here for an eye-popping price of $22,299.

This configuration is obviously only intended for hungriest of power users, requiring the highest-end chip with a 36-core CPU and 80-core GPU. The memory upgrade alone to increase from the standard 96GB to 512GB costs $15,500.
 

With all of the announcements this week, it's easy to forget that the groundbreaking iPhone Duo just launched last Friday, and while early adopters have been enjoying much of what Apple's first foldable phone has to offer, it hasn't been entirely smooth sailing.

At least a few users have experienced sudden interior screen breakage seemingly caused by something going wrong in the complex hinge of the device. Apple has said that it is aware of the issue affecting "a small number of iPhone Duo units" and that affected users should contact AppleCare to obtain replacement units.