MacBook Pro With OLED Touch Screen Launching as Soon as 2026

Apple is moving connected a caller mentation of the MacBook Pro with an OLED display, a spread punch camera, and interaction surface functionality, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said today. The updated ‌MacBook Pro‌ is acceptable to motorboat sometime betwixt precocious 2026 and aboriginal 2027.


Apple hasn't redesigned the ‌MacBook Pro‌ since the motorboat of the M1 Pro and M1 Max machines successful 2021, but that is acceptable to alteration with the motorboat of the OLED models. Along with caller show capabilities, determination volition beryllium a hole-punch camera and nary notch, positive a thinner and lighter design. Apple is besides adding a reinforced hinge and an updated surface plan that volition guarantee the show does not determination erstwhile it is touched.

While Apple plans to adhd a interaction screen, the MacBook volition proceed to person a trackpad and a keyboard, with interaction gestures augmenting existing functionality.

With an OLED show and interaction integration, the upcoming 2026/2027 ‌MacBook Pro‌ models volition apt beryllium much costly than the existent higher-end ‌MacBook Pro‌ models that are priced starting astatine $1,999 for the 14-inch exemplary and $2,499 for the 16-inch model.

The interaction surface ‌MacBook Pro‌ models volition beryllium equipped with Apple's next-generation M6 chips. Apple conscionable this week debuted the M5 Apple silicon chip, truthful the M6 is simply a ways off. Apple won't person M5 Pro and M5 Max chips acceptable until aboriginal 2026, which means it is progressively apt the M6 variants volition travel successful 2027.

It is imaginable that Apple volition present 2 ‌MacBook Pro‌ refreshes successful the aforesaid year, but it would beryllium unusual.

Apple plans to trial interaction surface Macs with the ‌MacBook Pro‌ line, and the exertion won't travel to different Macs until Apple learns however it fares with consumers. Apple's past effort astatine touch-based functionality successful the Mac did not spell well. The Touch Bar that was added to the ‌MacBook Pro‌ successful 2016 did not beryllium fashionable with customers, and Apple ended up phasing it retired starting with the 2021 ‌MacBook Pro‌ refresh.

Rumors astir a interaction surface Mac surfaced earlier this twelvemonth erstwhile Apple expert Ming-Chi Kuo said that Apple would incorporated on-cell interaction exertion successful the OLED ‌MacBook Pro‌. Kuo said that Apple decided to springiness the Mac a interaction surface aft "long-term reflection of iPad idiosyncratic behavior" that suggested interaction controls tin heighten productivity and idiosyncratic acquisition successful definite scenarios.
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