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Touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro Coming in 2026 With Dynamic Island and Redesigned macOS Controls

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What strikes me as odd about this rumour is that the solution isn’t typically Apple.

Apple typically designs its hardware around the input. So an iPad is essentially a large blank canvas for touch input, the Studio and Pro Display are entirely display (not even a single button facing the user), the HomePod is all speaker. How do they effectively and elegantly solve a touchscreen on a device with a keyboard and trackpad?

They may simply add it to a similar design and even underplay the value of it so as not to mess with their already winning formula, but it does just seem very not like them.
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There is no elegant solution, which is why Apple has delayed adding touch for so long.

Everyone has tried so many solutions: convertibles, detachables, dual-screen notebooks, sliders.

Next up is foldables like ThinkPad X1 Fold. Apple seems to be pursuing this with the iPad fold, but that's years away and Mac sales are stagnant now.
 
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Touch? My MacBook Pro screen????

I cannot stand it when my idiot boss and I would be looking at something on my MBP screen and he would touch my monitor!!!!!!!#@#$##%$^$%%

I actually though about his demise.

You want to touch things and yourself, you get an iPad. If there is actual computer work, you get a MBP.

Apple, DO NOT monkey with this!

VIVA LaRevoltution!
 
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JPack said:
There is no elegant solution, which is why Apple has delayed adding touch for so long.

Everyone has tried so many solutions: convertibles, detachables, dual-screen notebooks, sliders.

Next up is foldables like ThinkPad X1 Fold. Apple seems to be pursuing this with the iPad fold, but that's years away and Mac sales are stagnant now.
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Agree with you, no elegant solution.

My ideal would be an iPad sized device that runs iPad OS. I like this form factor for on-the-go, and can get most of what I need done through iPadOS style apps (M365 etc). A touch design interface for when it is really needed.

Then when I'm at my desk I want to plug this iPad into my monitor and get MacOS with full version apps. Technically this is achievable given M-series is now running iPads. Might not be a MBP powerhouse but I'm sure would work for many.

But I know this will never happen because it is a single device that destroys some sales in two other categories for Apple.
 
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ThisIsMike said:
Okay, the touchscreen is fine, whatever, but they are OUT OF THEIR MIND if they put a "DYNAMIC ISLAND" on a MacBook. Hell to the NO. I wouldn't buy that if you freaking paid me.
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Dynamic Island on a Mac sounds great.

Takes less space than the notch, allows the bezels to be razor thin, and it's a genuinely useful mini 2nd display for app status, just as it has been on the iPhone for years.
 
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There is no need for laptops to be bezel-less. Even a small bezel would have plenty of room for a camera. I don’t see why Apple would feel the need to do a Dynamic Island, let alone the current notch.
 
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ryanmp said:
I just can't understand the touch-screen laptop concept. I used to have a Dell touchscreen laptop for work and it was horrible, probably used it a handful of times.

The only use case that seems to work is a detachable. But then Apple ends up with a laptop that is basically an iPad that runs MacOS, which they've never wanted to do.
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This is most likely because you come from a mouse input first generation. Many users today are coming from a touch first input methods. I could be completely wrong, but I’ve found most of us tend to prefer the workflow habits we’re used to. All three of my kids, are touch first generation, they use iPhones and iPads for school and work. They never even owned a mouse. Any time they grab my MacBook Air they instinctively tap the screen.
 
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RevTEG said:
This is most likely because you come from a mouse input first generation. Many users today are coming from a touch first input methods. I could be completely wrong, but I’ve found most of us tend to prefer the workflow habits we’re used to. All three of my kids, are touch first generation, they use iPhones and iPads for school and work. They never even owned a mouse. Any time they grab my MacBook Air they instinctively tap the screen.
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Makes sense. I fully understand many not wanting to use a touchscreen mac, but what I can't understand is why they object to a MacBook even allowing this. It's not as though you are required to use it and it sounds like those not using it won't see ANY changes in the UI.
 
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I vaguely recall using a CRT touchscreen like 10, 20 years before the iPhone came out. It' s not some hot, new technology. The first finger-based touchscreen came out in 1965 according to Wikipedia.

I don't think it's a particularly good user interface:
1. Arm fatigue.
2. Your arm and hand blocks the view of a significant portion of the display, effectively lowering display resolution.
3. Smudges.
4. Trackpad/mouse cursor precision is superior to fingertip precision.
 
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Battery life on this new laptop should be greatly enhanced by the power of Steve Jobs spinning furiously in his grave.

Tim Cook, however, is likely salivating at the prospect of selling more Monitor Polishing Cloths for nano-texture screens soiled by user fingerprints.
 
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Billy_Bob said:
Battery life on this new laptop should be greatly enhanced by the power of Steve Jobs spinning furiously in his grave.

Tim Cook, however, is likely salivating at the prospect of selling more Monitor Polishing Cloths for nano-texture screens soiled by user fingerprints.
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Why would YOUR screen have more fingerprints?
 
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