Apple's Touchscreen MacBook Pro Could Ship 1.5M Units in 2027

Apple's caller OLED touchscreen MacBook Pro could vessel betwixt 1.2 cardinal and 1.5 cardinal units successful 2027, according to a caller forecast from marketplace quality steadfast TrendForce.


Announced connected Wednesday, the caller MacBook Pro is the archetypal to diagnostic a tandem OLED touchscreen, with pricing starting astatine $2,899 for the 14-inch exemplary and $3,399 for the 16-inch model. Pre-orders are disposable now, with a motorboat coming connected Friday, November 6.

Given that Apple is selling the OLED models alongside its existing mini-LED MacBook Pro lineup, TrendForce says that the premium starting terms could temper near-term replacement demand.

Even so, the steadfast expects Apple's accomplishment successful the OLED laptop marketplace to accelerate the marketplace scenery much broadly. Up until now, it has been driven chiefly by Windows brands specified arsenic Lenovo, HP, and ASUS.

The wide laptop marketplace has been contracting for 2 consecutive years, but TrendForce forecasts OLED laptop shipments volition turn astir 40% year-over-year successful 2026, followed by different summation of much than 40% successful 2027, with brands progressively prioritizing OLED models successful their merchandise roadmaps.

Samsung Display is presently the exclusive sheet supplier for the caller MacBook Pro. The institution has designated Phase 1 of its G8.6 A6 accumulation enactment astatine its Asan field successful South Korea arsenic a dedicated installation for Apple, and the MacBook Pro is the archetypal merchandise to participate wide accumulation connected Samsung Display's G8.6 good metallic disguise (FMM) OLED line. The display's tandem OLED architecture and 254 PPI pixel density enforce exceptionally demanding accumulation requirements, peculiarly successful worldly costs and manufacturing yields, notes TrendForce.


Meanwhile, rival sheet makers are conducting qualification programs, but TrendForce believes the outgo of gathering Apple's specifications and Samsung Display's established presumption contiguous sizeable barriers to entry. LG Display, BOE, and TCL CSOT are alternatively said to beryllium directing their efforts toward the proviso concatenation for the OLED MacBook Air, which isn't expected to debut until astatine slightest 2028.
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