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M6 MacBook Pro: Release Date, Pricing, and What to Expect

Touch screen is fine as long as they leave everything else as it is. For video editing I can use touch to literally drag and drop clips, or for photo editing I can use it to move sliders.

As an add-on, sure. But not at the expense of taking things out. The key thing being they don't cripple other parts of the laptop.
 
I hope this thinner and lighter design does not sacrifice on the superior cooling and airflow they introduced with the M1 14 and 16" MacBook Pros- this is a requirement for Pro level work.
 
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transpo1 said:
I hope this thinner and lighter design does not sacrifice on the superior cooling and airflow they introduced with the M1 14 and 16" MacBook Pros- this is a requirement for Pro level work.
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It wouldn't because it will be thinner due to a thinner display rather than the base.
 
Student of Life said:
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To be fair this is MacRumors, thats the norm here. If you dont want this then dont go to a rumor place.
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Macrumor not macspeculation. I knew this comment was coming.
 
I'd be okay with, probably 19 GB of RAM and maybe 517 GB of storage. And hopefully they can bring the cost down to $1,857 or less.
 
MacRumors said:
Punch-Hole Camera
No More Notch
If you are fed up of the notch intruding on your Mac display, here's some good news. Apple plans to remove the notch from the redesigned MacBook Pro, according to a roadmap shared by research firm Omdia. The roadmap indicates that redesigned 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models will have a hole-punch camera at the top of the display, rather than the notch we've become accustomed to. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman has since corroborated the claim, saying that the design "leaves a display area around the sensor... similar in concept to the Dynamic Island on the iPhone."
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A punch hole is a notch. It's just like how Dynamic Notchland is a notch. But Tim Cook is too clueless to get that.

While we're at it, Apple should get rid of asymmetric corners on Mac displays. Whose awful idea was it to have the top of the display have rounded corners while the bottom of the display have 90-degree corners? All corners on all displays should have 90-degree corners. Cook doesn't seem to understand that decades-old CRT television screen-type rounded corners are not a good thing on modern displays.
 
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joeblow7777 said:
Well, the nice thing about a touchscreen is that you don't have to use it if you don't want to.
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That’s not the point.

While Apple faithful, apologists and evangelists will agree with you, those who are against a touchscreen laptop aren’t interested in giving Apple a pass along with their money.
 
What was the reason that the M1 MacBook Pros required the notch in the first place? It's MUCH wider than just a single camera.
 
Expecting to see it in October/November 2026. Think it will be a great MacBook with all the rumored changes. Hopefully it will have cellular connectivity. Think price can be $2199 for 14" and $2799 for the 16". Will be bad if it goes to $2499 for the 14" and $2999 for the 16".
 
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Looking at the TSMC chip timeline, the 1.4nm chips should be out around the time the M9 comes out. I spec’d a fairly beefy M3 Max 16c/40c with 64GB memory. Think I’ll probably wait for the M9 Pro 1.4nm with 96GB memory. Don’t think I’ll need the Max anymore for my work, even when keeping my Mac for 6 years. These chips are getting ridiculous.
 
If the new design of MacBook Pro suffers from thermal issues, it marks the return of stupidity in Apple’s hardware division.

Make the Air's as thin and light as you possibly can, but leave the Pro's with big batteries and large cooling systems.
 
Given the feedback around the Macbooks and smaller / thinner iPhones I'd be surprised if Apple would have the courage to make a thinner device or one with any less than the maximum allowed airline battery capacity. So while I'm looking forward to finally retire my Intel when OLED comes out, I'll need to upgrade my bag at the same time for the extra weight. Zillions of ports don't make sense for my use case either – if I need to plug that many things in, I'd rather do it with a docking station and have one thing to unplug when I go. As for notches and islands, they are a rather tiresome gimmick compared with a little extra bezel that you don't notice except for how it makes it easier to read on the edges of the screen, but I think those will be pried from Apple's cold, dead hands at this point. And the touchscreen? As someone else aptly put it, the beauty is you don't have to use it!
 
As a designer who freakishly keeps his screen clean and smudge free, the idea of fingerprints all over my screen gives me a touch of the vapors. I can endure it on my phone, but my MBP needs to be clean enough to eat off of.
 
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Danie_Morrow said:
I hope it doesn't have a touchscreen; a thinner one without a notch and with OLED is enough for me. I absolutely don't understand why a Mac would need a touchscreen.
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It could have the ability to fold into a tablet since it is going for thin, light redesign

That’s the only thing that makes sense if the rumour is true about touchscreen
 
I'd love to have a thinner and lighter redesign but I'd be ecstatic if the touchscreen is configurable. Seeing finger smudge on my screen makes me sick.
 
I don't care about thin, but I do care about weight. I'm curious to see if the MBP becoming lighter will interfere with the MBA in terms of weight (because actually what I want is the lightest 15/16inch that Apple can ship, no matter if it's Pro or not... for me it's just the display size, the weight, and it being a Mac rather than an iPad).
 
zenmacx said:
That’s not the point.

While Apple faithful, apologists and evangelists will agree with you, those who are against a touchscreen laptop aren’t interested in giving Apple a pass along with their money.
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Well, I don't think I'm an Apple apologist. My current MBA is the first Mac I've ever owned. My last 3 laptops were touchscreen PCs. To be honest, I hardly used the touchscreen. I knew that I wouldn't miss it when I switched to Mac, but I didn't mind having the option of using it.
 
joeblow7777 said:
Well, I don't think I'm an Apple apologist. My current MBA is the first Mac I've ever owned. My last 3 laptops were touchscreen PCs. To be honest, I hardly used the touchscreen. I knew that I wouldn't miss it when I switched to Mac, but I didn't mind having the option of using it.
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I hackintoshed a Yoga C930 during the Dark Ages of Butterfly Keyboards, so I had a touchscreen on a Mac. The experience wasn’t great. Photoshop was the only application where it could have been useful, but the lag was so enormous it wasn’t. Otherwise… there was just no point. The notification centre since Big Sur (I think? Sequoia for sure) seems to have been redesigned to be compatible with touch when that comes. I’m going to use it never.

Oh well. I’ve got an M4 MBP and no intention to replace it until a mindblowing technological advance strikes. I don’t mind the notch – I don’t see it. I’m sure OLED will be great, but the current display is really good enough for me. I don’t need/want a touchscreen, I also get a touch of the vapours at the thought of smeared fingerprints on my screen. Give me a default of 32 GB RAM/1 TB storage at the current base model price (‘LOL’ – Tim Cook) and I’ll think about it (‘LOLOLOL’ – Tim Cook).
 
JulianL said:
30+ year Windows user here planning a move to Mac. I'm not waiting for the M6 MacBooks, I'm too excited about making the move to wait until then. My first Apple PC is going to be a 14" M5 Pro MacBook. I definitely need a 1TB internal drive (I don't want to travel with an external enclosure) and while 16GB of RAM would be OK the extra headroom of 24GB would be nice.

If pricing follows the pattern established by the M4 based MacBooks then, since the 14C/20C Pro chip variant has 24GB/1TB as its baseline configuration that is a model that tends to be available at about a 10% discount from 3rd party resellers so it only ends up being about $200/£200 more expensive that a non-Pro M-Series version once you upgrade that non-Pro variant to a 24GB/1TB configuration. If things work out the same way a few months after the M5 Pro MacBook is announced then £200 more on a £2,000 device to get the dual fan cooling, TB5 instead of TB4 and what will almost certainly be a whole load of extra performance as well seems like the sweet spot to me.

With rumours of M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBooks "early next year" (by the end of March if not earlier?) and rumours that the new OLED models might even come out by the end of that same year (2026) I'm hopeful that within a couple of months of the M5 Pro MacBook coming out we will start seeing the same sort of ~10% discounts on that model as we currently see on the baseline 14C/20C M4 Pro MacBook configuration.
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Interesting! May we ask, what are the reasons behind this move?

I can’t wait for MBP M5 16”. I have trouble to use small displays because of my bad eyesight. The SSD speed is something 👌
 
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