MacBook Pro With OLED Display Expected Next Year — Without a Notch?

[MacRumors]

The first MacBook Pro models with OLED displays are still expected to launch next year.

Omdia analyst Linda Lin reiterated the 2026 timeframe for the first MacBook models with OLED displays in a recent research note. While she did not mention the MacBook Pro specifically, it is widely expected that OLED displays will debut in the higher-end MacBook Pro models before the lower-end MacBook Air models.

When the MacBook Pro switches from mini-LED to OLED display technology, benefits will include increased brightness, higher contrast ratio with deeper blacks, improved power efficiency for longer battery life, and more.

Overall, the MacBook Pro is expected to receive its first major redesign since 2021 next year, with rumored changes including an OLED display and a thinner design. Apple will also be on to the M6, M6 Pro, and M6 Max chips by then.

In December 2024, Omdia intriguingly claimed that next year's MacBook Pro models will have a hole-punch camera at the top of the screen, instead of a notch. It is unclear if this rumor was accurate, or if that change remains on Apple's roadmap.

If you are considering purchasing a new MacBook Pro, it might be best to hold off until next year if you are able to wait. Apple will likely update the MacBook Pro line with the M5 series of chips later this year, but not much is expected beyond that spec bump. The more significant changes mentioned above should arrive by October 2026.

Article Link: MacBook Pro With OLED Display Expected Next Year — Without a Notch?

 

[turbineseaplane]

No notch, you say!?

And OLED!?

Color me happy!

 

[Steve Job's Cousin]

That's all fine and dandy but when are we getting Face ID on a Mac?

 

[HouseLannister]

Hole punch instead of notch? So zero hopes for FaceID.

 

[turbineseaplane]

Hole punch instead of notch? So zero hopes for FaceID.

"Nobody wants FaceID or Cellular on Macs."
"Cellular and FaceID on iPads make perfect sense."

The strange 🥨 logic going on over at Apple.
I don't understand why they do what they do on some of this stuff.

 

[Apple Knowledge Navigator]

That's all fine and dandy but when are we getting Face ID on a Mac?

You realise that you would still have to physically press something to confirm authentication?

Face ID doesn’t authenticate in one step, it requires confirmation via user input. Hence why Touch ID makes sense on a keyboard that already has physical buttons.

 

[Caseman93]

We need a better App Store with more applications. The hardware is pointless at this point. We don't need more power and nicer hardware. We need more applications. Fix the App Store please

 

[TVreporter]

My bank account is not ready …

 

[Caseman93]

You don't buy a Ferrari just to go to the grocery store and back home. It would be nice to be able to dual boot windows and take advantage of more applications.

 

[Caseman93]

Nicer updated hardware is irrelevant. The Mac has a hole is left behind and boring. One of the top paid apps, The Sims 2 lol. Come on.

 

[darngooddesign]

The challenges with no notch are the size/depth of the FaceID components. It has to be shallower than the non-metal part of the lid, even more so if it has underscreen FaceID. I wonder if the camera itself is small enough to fit in the current MBP's top bezel, or will that grow in size a little.

 

[maxoakland]

Apple’s hardware continues to shine despite a blip around 2016. The software is another story: so buggy even Mac fanatics like Luke Miani are willing to see it and a UI refresh that almost looks like a joke

I think what happened in the aftermath of 2016 was the reason hardware turned around: Ive was too laser focused on things users didn’t care about as much, like minimalism and thinness to the point that the product itself suffered. Jony Ive left and was replaced with someone capable of listening to users and giving them what they wanted from the hardware.

The same thing needs to happen with the software and UI teams. I’m not sure how far the rot goes, but at the least the people in charge have failed in their jobs

 

[Six0Four]

me rn

 

[maxoakland]

We need a better App Store with more applications. The hardware is pointless at this point. We don't need more power and nicer hardware. We need more applications. Fix the App Store please

I agree that the App Store sucks but not for the reason you’re saying. There’s not that much software that doesn’t make it onto Macs. At least nothing I need

 

[t0rqx]

No use if they keep selling scratched and dented Macbook Pro screens. Cannot believe they havent fixed that issue.

 

[darngooddesign]

No use if they keep selling scratched and dented Macbook Pro screens. Cannot believe they havent fixed that issue.

I don't think that issue is nearly as wide spread as you are suggesting.

 

[darngooddesign]

Until Apple has active anti-burn-in techniques I don't want OLED for a screen which is on for most of the day displaying static information like the Menubar and Dock.

 

[Royksöpp]

The M4 lineup was the biggest jump since the M1. Anyone who didn’t upgrade to that should most definitely wait until the redesigned OLED version.

 

[RowellE]

So maybe 3-4 years more until OLED hits the MacBook Air? 😭

 

[swingerofbirch]

I can't imagine a display nicer than the one on my M1 Pro MacBook Pro 14". And I prefer a mature technology that isn't subject to degradation.

 

[lowendlinux]

OLED displays on laptops are great

 

[Lounge vibes 05]

If you are considering purchasing a new MacBook Pro, it might be best to hold off until next year if you are able to wait. Apple will likely update the MacBook Pro line with the M5 series of chips later this year, but not much is expected beyond that spec bump.l

what type of god awful advice is this?
Ah yes, your computer breaking down? Not getting software updates anymore? Is it just time for a new one?
well, you know what you should do? Wait for the generation that’s still two generations away, possibly more. That Intel MBP will surely still be working a year and a half from now… in fact, you know what, go ahead and wait until the M7, what’s another generation away?

Seriously, if you need a MacBook Pro today, buy one today. The prices have never been better, the design is very well tested, the display is perfectly fine and there is no telling what might exist two years from now.

 

[HouseLannister]

You realise that you would still have to physically press something to confirm authentication?

Face ID doesn’t authenticate in one step, it requires confirmation via user input. Hence why Touch ID makes sense on a keyboard that already has physical buttons.

It could. They just need to program it that way. That’s how it works when you launch an app that uses it. I open Wells Fargo and I am in my accounts. Why not open my lid and I am on my desktop?

 

[Lounge vibes 05]

"Nobody wants FaceID or Cellular on Macs."
"Cellular and FaceID on iPads make perfect sense."

The strange 🥨 logic going on over at Apple.
I don't understand why they do what they do on some of this stuff.

at least with FaceID, there is the excuse that you already have to click a button to confirm so Face ID would be redundant. for example, whenever making an Apple Pay purchase, downloading an app, whatever, how you have to double click the side button/top button on the iPhone and the iPad. if you have to do a secondary action on the Mac, like a double clicking the power button on the top of the keyboard, might as well just use touch ID since you’re already pushing the button.
but I have never understood the cellular data absence.

 

[Lounge vibes 05]

We need a better App Store with more applications. The hardware is pointless at this point. We don't need more power and nicer hardware. We need more applications. Fix the App Store please

Apple: App Store, you say?
*makes macOS 27 AppStore only*