Yesterday was exactly seven days before the rumoured Special Event which will reportedly lead to a brand new MacBook and potentially updated MacBook Pros.

As many sources had pointed towards October 14 as the date then it looked certain that Apple would indeed be using the second Tuesday in October as the stage to show off its new range of notebooks. Typically Apple would send out press invites to such an event exactly seven days prior to the event, but October 7 passed with no word from Apple PR.

Looking back at similar events it seems that Apple is not as keen to host a special event purely for new Mac releases, in fact in the past three years Apple hasn’t held any kind of unscheduled special event for a notebook.

Some may say that as this update doesn’t appear to be a mere speedbump but a major update to the enclosure that Apple would want to show off the new design at an event but lets cast our minds back to May 2006. In January of that year Apple released its first computers with Intel processors, one of them was the MacBook Pro, largely unchanged from its PowerBook predecessor. The consumer range of iBooks was left stranded with the PowerPC processor until Apple quietly swapped it out for brand new black and white MacBooks on May 16, no event, no fuss, just a press release.

Based on this past experience World of Apple remains confident that Apple will release brand new MacBooks and MacBook Pros next Tuesday but without any kind of hoo-ha.