Mac in focus at Apple event on Monday

Apple Inc will stage its last product unveiling of the year on Monday, when the company is set to update a device that is coming up on its 40th anniversary: the Mac.

The event will take place at 5pm California time. That’s an unusual hour for an Apple launch and the timing on Halloween eve is likely meant to fit the spooky theme, dubbed “Scary Fast”. In another twist, the company isn’t holding an in-person gathering at its headquarters in Cupertino, California, making it an online-only affair.

Apple hasn’t said what it will reveal at the event — beyond showing a Mac software icon in the invite — but Bloomberg has reported that the company is preparing fresh MacBook Pro laptops and iMac desktops.

The machines probably won’t have a radical new look, but will likely include Apple’s first M3 3-nanometre processors. Those chips are expected to be a…