After Years of Resistance, Apple Might Finally Release a Touchscreen MacBook Pro (pocket-lint.com) 40
An anonymous reader shares a report: After years of dismissing the idea of putting a touchscreen on a MacBook, it seems Apple may have finally caved. Its MacBook Pro overhaul in 2026 is now expected to be the first-ever MacBook to feature a touchscreen display, according to a report from supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo on X.
The change will reportedly affect Apple's next-generation MacBook Pro, which could feature an OLED display and "incorporate a touch panel using on-cell touch technology." The OLED MacBook Pro isn't expected to enter production until late 2026, and before then, Apple is expected to launch the M5 MacBook Pro in early 2026.
The change will reportedly affect Apple's next-generation MacBook Pro, which could feature an OLED display and "incorporate a touch panel using on-cell touch technology." The OLED MacBook Pro isn't expected to enter production until late 2026, and before then, Apple is expected to launch the M5 MacBook Pro in early 2026.
Pen input touchscreen (Score:3)
I don't care about a touchscreen, but if it folded over and took pen input, I'd be a big fan.
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That is the secret sauce to making a touchscreen on a laptop anywhere worth a damn - the 180 degree hinge for the display.
Touchscreens without that don't get used because it's ergonomically terrible. The pen / stylus is an added optional bonus.
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That is the secret sauce to making a touchscreen on a laptop anywhere worth a damn - the 180 degree hinge for the display.
Touchscreens without that don't get used because it's ergonomically terrible. The pen / stylus is an added optional bonus.
Honestly, I'd rather Apple:
But yeah, a hinge that can let you A. open it flat and B. spin the display around and close the laptop so that it looks and acts like a thick tablet would also work.
But the biggest thing I'd like is for Apple to get Back-to-my-Mac working. I do not want to store my data in the Clo
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Touchscreens without that don't get used because it's ergonomically terrible.
Everyone's experience is different. For my previous laptop, I wanted an extremely light laptop, and the LG Gram 14 blew everything away, including the Macbooks. The one thing that I had to give up was the touchscreen. I thought that I wouldn't miss it that much, and I was very wrong. Maybe with a mouse, the touchscreen isn't as helpful, but using only the trackpad, the touchscreen was night and day **for some webpages**. For example, if I look at a page with ten links that I want to open in different t
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I had a GRiD 1530 laptop in 1991 that did exactly that.
It was as amazing as it was awful.
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I don't care about a touchscreen, but if it folded over and took pen input, I'd be a big fan.
Buy an iPad to go with your MacBook. They are the perfect combination of you spending more money with us and us selling you more devices to further entrenching you in our ecosystem. It's the Apple way.
Sincerely,
Apple cult support.
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I have a touchscreen laptop but never touch the screen because it's uncomfortable. What use case is there for this?
It provides some consistency in the user experience between the iPad and Mac, something that's getting more important as the two product lines evolve into one. We see this convergence happening now that iPadOS apps can be run on a MacBook. Some apps are built with only a touch interface in mind.
Consider also the matter of developers wanting to do testing on touch screen apps on their laptops without a need to keep an iPad handy. I'd certainly expect testing on an iPad before release but with a touch scre
Touchscreen mostly for the technically challenged? (Score:3, Informative)
Overwhelmingly, it's a subset of technically challenged people I see clamoring for touchscreens on laptops, when I'm in a work environment.
This is just anecdotal, of course, but does anyone here actually strongly care about this feature on laptops? What utility does a touchscreen bring you for work?
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Overwhelmingly, it's a subset of technically challenged people I see clamoring for touchscreens on laptops, when I'm in a work environment.
This is just anecdotal, of course, but does anyone here actually strongly care about this feature on laptops? What utility does a touchscreen bring you for work?
It's for the folks that have grown up on tablets / iPads, and can't get used to the idea of using a mouse. The number of younger folks I've seen reaching for the screen when they need to move the mouse pointer is pretty high at the moment. Just make it an option for those folks, but I've never really used the touch screen for anything other than drawing with a stylus on any system I've had.
Touch screen on a laptop used for anything other than art? Superfluous to me, can't live without for the younger iPad t
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personally in my experience of touch screen laptops, the main uses of it have been :
1. google maps/maps . It's way nicer being able to touch the map, drag it around and pinch to zoom, instead of abstracted mouse and even worse on track pad.
2. excel / spreadsheet / pdf reading, it's nice to be able to just reach and drag the sheet around or scroll the document, . You
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I don't see how this is news, my 3 year old cheapie black Friday backup laptop has a touch screen. I've use the touch feature once.
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This is just anecdotal, of course, but does anyone here actually strongly care about this feature on laptops? What utility does a touchscreen bring you for work?
What does the extra utility take away? It's literally offering more input options. While I agree standard touch screens are somewhat limited, most touch screens in work environments I've seen are 2-in-1 with pen support. The utility of those is immense. Simple marking up, better note taking for anything that involves more than bullet points and text. Even on Teams firing up the white board app and drawing what I mean is a world of improvement in communication.
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What does the extra utility take away? It's literally offering more input options.
The first is that people might have to pay for this feature even if they don't want it. Apple always shoves its designs down people's throats. But the real problem is that it may cause idiots to touch my screen instead of my mouse.
does this portend.. (Score:3)
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app store only on the desktop = the end of adobe CC on mac.
Don't do it! (Score:3)
Fingerprints all over your screen? Gross!
Actually I have two PC laptops with touchscreens. I disabled them when I moved to Linux because they are not useful to me and it's too easy to bump them when closing the lid. (and on Linux there was a bug where the touch screen was still active when using an external display - sending your mouse cursor screaming all over the desktop)
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I have stabbed people with a pen for touching my screen.
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You could always not touch your screen.
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Having an expensive feature to show off then never using it does seem to check out for a certain kind of Apple user.
Gamechanger if... (Score:2)
...it's brought down to the cheaper MacBook Air and Apple makes its laptop UI more touch-friendly than Microsoft has with Windows!
Fantastic! (Score:2)
Fantastic - exactly what I have always not wanted! Fingerprints on my screen!
Will disappear like the touch bar in a year or two (Score:2)
I've owned MacBook Pros for decades, and have had a Chromebook with a touchscreen for a decade.
I could probably count on one hand the number of times I've actually USED the touchscreen on the Chromebook (including tablet mode) over the years. I thought it'd be so great. In the end, it's not really important.
I had and hated the touch bar MacBook Pro, and am glad it's gone on my current one. I expect this "innovation" of a touch screen to go away just like the touch bar.
Apple keeps trying to converge the phon
Just what I don't need (Score:2)
I know Apple doesn't exist to cater to me and my needs.
But this is a great example of something I don't need and have no use for. I can't really get excited about it.
But for those who do need or want such a thing, I hope the news is true and it provides what they are looking for......so long as Apple makes lots of money selling them.
What I really want in a screen (Score:2)
What I really want, more than anything, is matte displays. There is nothing high tech about it, and Apple used to make them for laptops. I wish they still did. I'd pay a big premium for one and would likely upgrade my already brand new laptop and phone just to get one. Yes, you can use a stick on overlay, but that just isn't the same.
What that fuck the obsession is with these mirror like, all you can do is see your own reflection displays is completely beyond my comprehension, but they totally suck.
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The matte coating decreases contrast. People like contrasty displays, and most people don't use them outside. I wouldn't be surprised if matte coatings also reduce the resolution on high resolution displays significantly.
Re: What I really want in a screen (Score:2)
These have returned already: you can choose to have a nano-texture display.
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No such option that I saw when I bought my devices.
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Maybe you bought before it was available or didn't buy a device that has the option. It's available for the M4 MacBook Pros, for example. You can see it here if you search for "nano-texture configuration": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
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Oh, yeah. I dunno what "M" mine is, but it isn't "4". I bought it in December.
And an Apple Rag to wipe it from greasy fingers (Score:2)
I might actualy buy a Macbook then (Score:2)
I use my touchscreen on my Dell for unchecking or checking many boxes, scrolling when leaned forward, drawing, signatures, etc. I may not use it every day, but I used it regularly. People who use touchscreen phones and tablets then shit on touchscreen laptops are being stupid. It's just habits.
Who would want this? (Score:2)
I had an HP laptop that had this feature. The screen is so bouncy that it makes the experience useless. And fingers are not precise pointing devices. Do not want.
Don't really care either way... however (Score:2)
If it happens, it at least isn't an actively bad idea like the touch bar was.
I unfortunately have a (last-gen Intel) MacBook Pro with a touch bar. Even after several years, I am constantly accidentally triggering things I don't want... it's just too easy to graze the touchbar when you're hitting a number key. And before you say "just map it to function keys" - all that will accomplish is to change what I'm accidentally triggering.
Huawei MateBook Fold Ultimate Design (Score:2)
I bet they were shaken by the Huawei MateBook Fold Ultimate Design...it's quite something. Outstanding.
touch me (Score:2)
Apple said they’d never cave,
Touchscreens weren’t their game,
walled gardens are their claim to fame,
But here we are all the same
Come on, come on, come on, come on —
And touch me, babe, can’t you see
That’s the feature they resisted endlessly!
Now OLED shines so bright,
M6 dreams at night,
Steve said “no” back in the day,
But now Tim says we can win that fight
Come on, come on, come on, come on —
Touch me, babe, can’t you see
The market is not afraid, what was tha