Apple might finally put a touchscreen on a MacBook - and the reveal could happen before Halloween.
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports Apple is readying an OLED touchscreen MacBook, internally code-named K114 and K116, for an event around October 27 with both a streamed presentation and an in-person press component. He expects it to arrive alongside an M6 MacBook Pro, an M6 iMac, and an OLED iPad mini, all pitched at video, photo, and music professionals. The new machine will reportedly keep a full keyboard and trackpad, making the touchscreen optional rather than a replacement for how people already use a Mac. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo and leaker Instant Digital have separately corroborated the touch display, and developer beta code in macOS 27 already includes touch-friendly features like pull-to-refresh.
This is a real reversal, not just a spec bump. Steve Jobs called touchscreen laptops "ergonomically terrible" in 2010, and current CEO John Ternus was still waving off the idea as recently as 2021. Apple is effectively admitting what Windows laptop makers like Dell have sold for years, and may be pricing accordingly: the iPad Pro's 20 percent OLED markup suggests a 14-inch model could start near $3,000.
Treat the specifics loosely. Gurman has already walked back an earlier claim that this MacBook would be notably thinner, and the "MacBook Ultra" name is a guess - the same kind of guess that had us calling Apple's foldable phone the "iPhone Ultra" right up until it shipped as the Duo.