Apple's rumored OLED MacBook Pro is shaping up to be a lot thinner and lighter than today's model.
The claim comes from Mark Gurman, who writes in his Power On newsletter that Apple has reengineered the laptop's interior, shrinking and repositioning components to cut weight. The same leaks point to a touchscreen with a dynamic island replacing the current notch, plus M5 Pro and M5 Max chips under the hood. Gurman expects the machine as soon as this month or in November. None of this is confirmed by Apple, and the usual leak caveats apply.
Shrinking a laptop's interior usually means something gets sacrificed, and longtime MacBook Pro owners are already bracing for a smaller battery or fewer ports in exchange for the slimmer build. That tradeoff echoes Apple's broader playbook: thinner designs have repeatedly nudged out connectors and headroom on both iPhone and MacBook lines before battery tech caught up.
The redesign hasn't dented the loudest complaint, though. Commenters keep joking that the real weight loss will hit their wallets, since OLED screens and tighter engineering tend to show up as a higher price tag, not a lower one.