Touchscreen MacBook Pros reiterated to launch later this year | Infinium-tech

Apple is set to launch several new devices next week, including a new entry-level MacBook model (J700) and updated MacBook Pros with M5 Pro and M5 Max chips. But these won’t be the only new MacBook models launching this year. A new report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman suggests that we’ll finally see the long-rumored touchscreen MacBook Pro arriving sometime in late 2026.

According to people familiar with the matter, Apple will announce a 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro, known internally as the K114 and K116. If these claims prove true, these MacBook Pros will finally break Apple’s long-standing bias towards touchscreen laptops, thanks to Steve Jobs, who famously announced That “touch surfaces don’t want to be vertical”.

Steve Jobs wasn’t a fan of touchscreen laptops

According to the new report, the touchscreen MacBook Pro will have different profiles optimized for touch or point-and-click input. When Touch Profile is enabled, macOS will bring up additional menus and context-relevant actions around the user’s touch points on the screen.

Apart from this, both the upcoming MacBook Pro will also get OLED display and Dynamic Island. There has been talk of an OLED MacBook for a few years now but the dynamic island bit is new. According to the report, the Dynamic Island on the upcoming MacBook Pro will be placed at the top center of the display and will be smaller than the current crop of iPhones, with a punch-hole cutout shape.

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