Wonder how long until they are actually available?
What is the M$RP?
$79.00 : $99.00 = $109.00 : x
probably ~ $139,00
So hapax3 = to WIFI 6, that is not too bad of a lag behind other vendors, they have really shortened the gap in technology outputs.
hAP ax³ wireless specs looks promising, Powerful radio + external antenna gain.
Shut Up And Take My Money 
Added on title, accordingly:
MikroTik hAP ax³ [C53UiG+5HPaxD2HPaxD]
Nice details:
C53 U i G**+** 5HPaxD 2HPaxD
Compared with hAP ax² [C52iG-5HaxD2HaxD] have USB3, one 2,5G port, and Powerful radio for both 5 and 2,4 GHz
Some other details:
Quad-Core IPQ-6010 1.8 GHz ARM 64bit
QCN-5022 (2.4 GHz)
QCN-5052 (5 GHz)
RAM 1GB
128MB NAND
1 PoE-out (0,5 A)
USB3 type A
2.4GHz Antenna 3.3 dBi
5GHz Antenna 5.5 dBi
Price: €135,00 + V.A.T.
Is it possible that the AX2 has better reception at 2,4ghz despite those giant external antennae?
(4,5dbi vs 3,5dbi)
3,5? 3,3… if it’s not a mistake…
They have a powerful radio compared to ax², probably to be within the legal parameters to be sold it must not have too much gain…
but the antennas are detachable…
Is the USB port going to be any useful for attaching an external hard drive?
The USB port is extremely slow on hAP AC3 and could not use it with an external hard drive for backups (I only tried it with 6.x Router OS). This is not an issue with my thousand years old synology AC1900 router…
ax³ has a USB3 port, ac³ has a USB2 port
Legacy mikrotik devices are pretty slow when working as NAS devices. And providing “only” USB2 doesn’t explain it, after all USB2 is supposed to go up to 480Mbps (half the speed of a gigabit ethernet) but most people experience file transfers (via SMB) far slower than that. And simply including USB3 in new ax devices will not improve this experience. Now, if ROS v7 came with better SMB implementation, that would be a major step forward …
If using USB to attach storage for semi-permanent log storage or some such, then the slow speed is usually not an issue. I don’t know how USB attached storage fares when used for containers though.
And to me one of major uses for USB port is possibility to perform OOB management, e.g. using WOOBM.
is the wifi same as hAP AX2? Only 1200 in 5 Ghz? For those money it is not really great…
I can’t find this device anywhere but on YouTube.
Where could I pre-order?
It’s a LEAK … Wait for the device to appear on the MikroTik website.
Most European stores have already announced the price and delivery date.
ax^3 youtube video talks up the USB port as a viable option to attach storage, but I am afraid it’s gonna suck as much as ac^3. Anyone from Mikrotik care to tell us if SMB performance has been improved in ROS 7?
Maybe we can ask owners of RB5009 how fast is their USB 3 with ROS7…
USB is not for storage, its for external devices like LTE modems and such.
Please do not write nonsence…did you see the video?
Brochure PDF