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According to Mark Gurman, a standard MacBook Pro form factor with a touchscreen is set for late 2026.
A folding 18.8 inch iPad is also targeted for late 2027/early 2028, OS unknown.
Touch is absolutely coming to the Mac, if only as a secondary input. Much like how keyboard and trackpad support is on the iPad, but it is also not the intended primary input.
People are going to crap on the rumor because it’s Gurman, but he literally didn’t miss once when it comes to this last WWDC. He had everything correct, down to it being called iOS 26 and the interface being called liquid glass.
If anyone would know, it’s him, and he says touch MacBook Pros are on the way.
The merits (or lack thereof) of a touchscreen Mac aside, compromising macOS for everyone else in order to make that easier would be incredibly disappointing.
If they aren’t adding all this padding and space for that reason, to me, it just seems like an awful design trend and change for the worse
Dropping Launchpad will absolutely wreck my workflow. I have my apps organized into separate spaces I can reach with a four-fingered pinch - general, studio, games, astronomy, utilities, and maintenance.
I've used this setup successfully since Mac OS X Lion - over 15 years. I don't need or want an app menu, which seems like a huge step backwards. Why not just give us a choice instead of forcing us to adapt to something way less efficient?
If anyone knows of a third-party Launchpad equivalent please let me know.
I've used this setup successfully since Mac OS X Lion - over 15 years. I don't need or want an app menu, which seems like a huge step backwards. Why not just give us a choice instead of forcing us to adapt to something way less efficient?
If anyone knows of a third-party Launchpad equivalent please let me know.
have you ever tried just using spotlight or Alfred to launch apps? no need to take your hands off the keyboard and you can open any app in as little as 3 keystrokes
alfred does a pretty good job too. never made the move to Raycast so don't know how they compare
Actually I haven't used Alfred since Launchpad was a thing. Thanks for reminding me.
You're looking at it wrong...
Seriously, it's really bad human factors design, IMHO.
As Dan Norman might say, "I bet they on an award for it..."
WHo knows, but from my experience touch screen PCs are more hype than useful.. After an initial playing around, it quickly becomes ignored except for scrolling on web pages. Biggest adjustment I've seen going from PC touch screen ot Mac is learning not to try to scroll by touching the screen.
Ok so it wasn’t just my eyes then. I’m in the same boat, no compelling reason to update on this one. My eyesight isn’t getting any better either and the lack of contrast in the liquid glass is gonna make work harder.
I definitely won’t on my iPhone 15 Pro or AWU2 because it seems like each OS update negatively impacts the battery, especially on the watch.
That is going to suck on my 14” MBP that’s a lot of wasted space.
I'm hoping there will be a system setting allowing you to choose how magnified these UI elements will be. Both macOS and iOS (and iPadOS?) have a few settings that let you select the size of some elements, so it would make sense to extend that to the elements Apple has increased the size of in 26.
Well. It is a beta. The first beta. 99.9999999% of users will never know or have seen it. Doesn't matter unless this goes onto Beta 4 or 5.
Regarding the rounded-corners-galore I was so hoping for someone to say something like "If Steve was alive it would never have happened" only to have someone else come in and say "Steve must be thrilled looking on to his 1980's invention RoundRect() and see how it still defines Apple".