I hate the idea of a thinner and lighter design. The MacBook Pro is fine as it is. A thinner design will mean worse speakers and battery life. If you want thinner and lighter, get a MacBook Air.
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MacBook Pro With OLED Touch Screen Launching as Soon as 2026
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Really?
Can you give me lets say 2 links from yesterday from this site about it? You said daily, several times a day on every rumor site so that should be easy.
Thanks.
A touchscreen makes sense as an option, but it should be like the cellular iPads- a separate SKU that one can buy if interested. The base model should be cheaper and not include it. And speaking of cellular, when is that coming to the Mac?
MacBook Pro "non-fold" launching in 2027 with next-gen M7 chips
Rumours have stated that, along with the foldable iPhone, Apple will release the first non-folding MacBook Pro in 2027.
Half the thickness of the current MacBook Pro range and with the same width, the new laptops will be twice the length and are best used lying down.
Rumours have stated that, along with the foldable iPhone, Apple will release the first non-folding MacBook Pro in 2027.
Half the thickness of the current MacBook Pro range and with the same width, the new laptops will be twice the length and are best used lying down.
Apart from the price increase I’m not too concerned about touch screens, anyone who’s used a Windows laptop with touch screen can tell you it’s just a nice to have feature that comes in handy every now and then without any real downsides.
Greggs Gadgets has a pretty good video on how you can tell from recent MacOS UI changes that they’re definitely preparing for this.
Greggs Gadgets has a pretty good video on how you can tell from recent MacOS UI changes that they’re definitely preparing for this.
Feel like the fact that everyone has a smartphone with a cellular connection that is super easy to share with your laptop makes laptops with cellular obsolete, so never.
Might explain why they've made the Tahoe interface extra bloated and awful.
fix the screen micro-scratches and dents!
Does anyone really want this? Especially as it means a price hike! I mean the Max models are already from £3300 in the UK so £3500 or more would be even more daft. Especially as Apple seemingly updates things every year now?
Also if this is a true, what if it does take off and they do launch a new Studio and Pro XDR Display next year? As they will be immediately defunct lacking the capability to offer features in Mac OS? As I doubt they will come with OLED touch screens.
This sounds like they will be fragmenting their Mac line quite badly if it is true.
The iPad as a concept works great. And EVERY model is built from the ground up to be touch screen based.
Making half your computer range touch screen also will fragment the line up, annoy users of desktops and external monitors, and push some people out of the market with a price rise. Plus no one is asking for touchscreen Macs... and unless they fold backwards and offer own support it's useless, literally prodding the screen for exactly the same functionality as the trackpad offers already.
Also if this is a true, what if it does take off and they do launch a new Studio and Pro XDR Display next year? As they will be immediately defunct lacking the capability to offer features in Mac OS? As I doubt they will come with OLED touch screens.
This sounds like they will be fragmenting their Mac line quite badly if it is true.
The iPad as a concept works great. And EVERY model is built from the ground up to be touch screen based.
Making half your computer range touch screen also will fragment the line up, annoy users of desktops and external monitors, and push some people out of the market with a price rise. Plus no one is asking for touchscreen Macs... and unless they fold backwards and offer own support it's useless, literally prodding the screen for exactly the same functionality as the trackpad offers already.
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Exactly. Is Jony Ive back? Give me more ports!
"as soon as"? Haven't we been waiting for years now?
In 2021: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/09/15/samsung-90hz-oled-laptop-displays/
In 2021: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/09/15/samsung-90hz-oled-laptop-displays/
I really think Mark's contacts within Apple are specifically tasked with throwing him off with some real and not so real rumors so know one really knows the roadmap that far out.
Stop letting all the developers of great iPadOS apps opt out of including them on the Mac App Store and the Mac will be great again after this OLED update. So many useful native apps on my iPad Pro that I am stuck using a browser for on my Mac like it’s the early 2000s again. Apple made it so that all iPad apps work universally on Apple Silicon Macs but for whatever reason the devs go out of their way to uncheck this box, which is on by default. Assuming this OLED MacBook will also have cellular (finally).
The last thing I need is a Mac with a touch screen. But if it doesn't make it pricier I can ignore it 
iPads are used as laptops with Magic Keyboard, and I hear iPads have touchscreens lmaoooooo
really really hope it includes massive 1TB unified memory for local LLM-based development
I've been avoiding installing MacOS 26 and iOS 26. With Apple's recent design decisions, I'm actually starting to question my brand loyalty, again. I love Apple Silicon, but man, they are sure doing everything they can to push me away from buying another Apple product. No way I'm buying a touchscreen Mac, so hopefully it will be an option, much like the Nano Texture display.
Back then, he was trying to sell everyone an extra device called iPad. These days, some people want to run iPad apps on Mac, so touch is helpful.
He also poo-pooed phablets.
I don't know what kind of focus groups Apple is listening to these days, but none of those are the features that matter to long-time users of the MacBook Pro.
How about?
How about?
- Lighter.
- Cheaper storage upgrades.
- Replace the one HDMI with USB-C (which can always change back to HDMI with a dongle) so we can have 4 USB-C ports and you can make the chassis thinner.
- Deeper key travel, à la 2012 Retina MacBook Pro's keyboard, or even better, the 2008 Unibody MacBook Pro's keyboard!
Can't see any reason for this, the UI is mouse cursor oriented.