Apple's MacBook Pro is reportedly getting a touchscreen - and an OLED display to go with it.
Apple is reportedly planning new OLED touchscreen MacBook Pro models, in 14-inch and 16-inch sizes, on or around October 27. The notebooks are expected to be thinner and lighter than today's MacBook Pro, with OLED screens, touch input, and a Dynamic Island cutout borrowed from the iPhone and iPad Pro. The same event is expected to bring an OLED iPad mini. Apple is also expected to refresh its non-touch lineup that day, with a separate M6 14-inch MacBook Pro and a new M6 iMac - distinct products from the touchscreen OLED models, not the same machines under different names.
Apple spent over a decade telling customers that touchscreens don't belong on a Mac, even as Windows rivals like Microsoft's Surface and Dell's XPS line leaned into them. Pairing touch with OLED and a Dynamic Island suggests Apple is folding iPad-style tricks into the MacBook Pro rather than merging the two product lines outright. Keeping a cheaper, non-touch M6 MacBook Pro around suggests this is a premium tier for now, not a wholesale redesign.
Call it input-method whiplash: the same company that mocked touchscreen laptops is about to sell you one, right next to a version that still doesn't have one.