M6 Mac Pre-Orders: Delivery Dates and How to Track Them From Your Mac

What Apple announced for M6 Macs

Two Newsroom posts on October 27 cover the hardware that opened for pre-order today. Sparse facts from Apple:

Apple's 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 post lists a 12-core CPU and 12-core GPU, Liquid Retina XDR (nano-texture optional), Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and up to 24 hours of battery life. The new iMac with M6 ships in blue, green, pink, yellow, purple, orange, and silver on the familiar 24-inch 4.5K Retina all-in-one.

Pre-order day is a queue problem. The more useful signals over the next week are delivery estimates that move, pickup slots that appear, and any late media-day news that changes what you want to buy.

What else is happening on October 28

October 28 is also Apple's "Pro and tell" LA media day. Coverage ahead of the day pointed at OLED touch MacBook Pro rumors and other Pro lineup chatter. Those remain media and rumor reports, not Apple Newsroom confirmations as of this writing — do not treat OLED pricing or ship dates as official unless Apple posts them. Keep the event tracker open if you are watching that window; this article is for the M6 machines already named and priced.

Dates worth a countdown

Why you cannot just pin Apple's buy page

The obvious move is to keep the MacBook Pro or iMac configure page open in a widget. It often does not work. Apple's store buy and order-status pages commonly refuse to load inside another app's frame (the same pattern called out in the iPhone Duo stock tracker). Kepo's web-view widget guide warns about this: sites that block embedding stay blank.

So split the job: use feeds and keyword watches for the news, a countdown for November 6 (or your own ship date), and a task to record your order's estimate when you check it in the browser.

Set up an M6 Mac pre-order tracker in Kepo

Kepo keeps small widgets in a floating panel you open with a global shortcut, over any app, including full-screen ones. Four widgets cover pre-order day and the wait to November 6.

1. Apple Mac news feed

• Widget: RSS Reader, which reads one RSS or Atom feed.
• Feed URL: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/rss-feed.rss (Apple Newsroom; returned the M6 MacBook Pro and iMac posts on October 27). Prefer broader Mac coverage? Use https://feeds.macrumors.com/MacRumors-All instead. One feed is enough.
• What it shows: official Newsroom posts and, with the MacRumors feed, delivery and media-day follow-ups, newest first.

2. Live reports on X

• Widget: X Keyword Watch from the X widgets.
• Keyword: M6 MacBook Pro or M6 iMac on pre-order morning; after that, something narrower such as MacBook Pro delivery or iMac Nov 6.
• What it shows: the latest posts from X's Live results for that keyword: queue times, "my ship date moved" posts, store pickup notes. Sign in to X first for reliable results.

3. A countdown to November 6 (or your ship date)

• Widget: the Event Timer countdown.
• Setting: the countdown runs for a length of time from when you save it, so pick Day or Hour as the unit and enter the time left. Example: set it on October 28 for a November 6 arrival and the value is 9 days. Use Hour for the morning pre-order open.
• What it shows: the time left. It is a display only and sends no reminder, so reset it if your estimate changes.

4. Your own order's estimate

• Widget: Todo List.
• Setup: one task, for example M6 MacBook Pro order or M6 iMac order, with the current estimate as its due date. Each time you check order status in the browser, add a step such as Oct 28: Nov 6 and update the due date if it moved.
• What it shows: the current estimate at a glance, plus a short history of every change.

Optional: a public stock or ship-date page, built with AI

If a retailer shows ship dates on a public page that loads without sign-in, you can describe a widget for that one check, for example: "Show the estimated delivery date for 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 from this page, with the time it was last checked. Refresh every 30 minutes." Store pages change layout and some block automated reads, so compare the first result with the real page and keep it to one model. More on this in website widgets for Mac.

Reloading store pages vs one shortcut panel

Keep the panel small. The feed and the order task answer most days; add the keyword watch on pre-order morning and drop it once your Mac ships.

Before you install

Kepo runs on Macs with Apple silicon (M1 or later) and macOS 12 or later. There is no Intel version. Details are in Kepo system requirements.

New to widgets on the Mac? Start with the built-in Mac desktop widgets, browse free widgets for Mac, or build custom Mac widgets for sources Apple does not cover.

FAQ

When do M6 MacBook Pro and iMac pre-orders open?

Wednesday, October 28, 2026, on apple.com/store and in the Apple Store app in the markets Apple listed. The 14-inch MacBook Pro window was widely reported at 10:10 a.m. Pacific; the iMac opens the same day.

When do the new M6 Macs ship?

Apple says availability begins Friday, November 6, 2026, for customer arrivals and Apple Store / reseller stock. Individual order estimates can differ once you configure and check out.

How much do the new M6 Macs cost?

In the US, the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 starts at $1,999 ($1,899 with education savings). The iMac with M6 starts at $1,499 for the 10-core model and $1,699 for the 12-core model ($1,449 / $1,599 education).

Was an OLED touchscreen MacBook Pro announced?

Not in Apple's October 27 M6 Newsroom posts. OLED touch MacBook Pro coverage around the "Pro and tell" day remains rumor and media reporting unless Apple confirms it. Track that separately from the priced M6 machines above.

Can a Kepo widget alert me when my Mac ships?

The widgets in this setup are for glancing: open the panel and see the newest news, posts and dates. They do not send notifications by themselves, and Apple's own buy and order pages usually cannot be shown inside a widget.

Get set up for pre-order week

Set it up once and it covers pre-order day through November 6: the Newsroom or Mac feed, one keyword watch, a countdown and your order task, all behind one shortcut. Download Kepo for your Apple silicon Mac and add the first widget in a few minutes.