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Apple has shipped macOS 27.2 alongside its new touchscreen MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR display, adding touch-specific interface tweaks for that model. At the launch event, an Apple employee told press that the company's touch optimization work for macOS is still in early stages, per Bloomberg's Chris Welch.
Apple has opened pre-orders for several new products, including the OLED iPad mini starting at $699, the 14-inch M6 MacBook Pro from $1,999, and the first touchscreen Mac, the MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display, starting at $2,899. Alongside these launches, new accessories like the World Travel Kit, upgraded 70W/140W power adapters, and a TechWoven iPad mini case are also now available, while retailers are offering gift card incentives and trade-in discounts on the new hardware.
Apple's latest MacBook Pro, featuring a PROLED XDR display with OLED and touchscreen capability, becomes the first laptop and only the second Apple product to support the Apple CMF 2026 color-matching function. This new color standard is designed to address perceptual color-accuracy issues present in the decades-old CIE 1931 standard, especially on modern narrow-spectrum display technologies like OLED and quantum dots.
Apple has increased the education price of the MacBook Neo to $649, just $50 below its standard retail price. The laptop launched at $599 with a $499 education price, but both prices rose by $100 in June, and the student discount has now shrunk further, putting it $150 above its original education price.
Apple's newly launched MacBook Pro line, which includes the first touchscreen Mac with a PROLED XDR display, starts at $1,999 for a 14-inch M6 model with 16GB memory and a 1TB SSD. At the top end, a 16-inch model with an M5 Max chip, 128GB memory and a 16TB SSD option costs $14,549.
Apple has introduced a touchscreen MacBook Pro, abandoning its long-held position against touch displays on Mac laptops. The new model starts at $2,899, roughly $1,000 more than the standard MacBook Pro, and executives including CEO John Ternus and marketing chief Greg Joswiak discussed the change publicly.
Apple's new MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR touchscreen display starts at $2,899 for the 14-inch M5 Pro model and $3,399 for the 16-inch version, available November 6. Fully maxing out the 16-inch configuration with nano-texture glass, the M5 Max 40-core GPU, 128GB of memory and 16TB of storage pushes the price to $14,549, with storage alone adding $7,000.
Apple's newly announced MacBook Pro with a PROLED XDR display includes a touchscreen for the first time, letting users tap and swipe the screen directly as on an iPad or iPhone. The display uses the same oleophobic coating found on iPhone, iPad and the newly announced HomeView to resist fingerprints, though Apple's $9 Polishing Cloth is still sold separately rather than included.
Apple unveiled a MacBook Pro with a tandem OLED touchscreen capable of 2,000 nits of brightness in both standard and HDR content, shown at a Los Angeles media event. The panel uses a redesigned version of the layered OLED tech found in the iPad Pro, re-engineered from the manufacturing process up to boost brightness and reduce glare.
Apple's new touchscreen MacBook Pro starts at $2,899, but a fully configured 16-inch model with the M5 Max chip, 128GB memory, and a 16TB SSD reaches $14,549, according to MacRumors' analysis of Apple's online configurator. The 14-inch equivalent tops out at $14,249. Preorders begin October 30, with units shipping November 6.
Apple introduced its first touchscreen laptops, the MacBook Pro with ProLED XDR Display, in 14-inch and 16-inch sizes at a Los Angeles event. The machines still run MacOS rather than iPadOS, and touch input is optional—users can rely entirely on the trackpad and keyboard as before. Apple says software automatically converts touch taps into clicks, and some interface elements, like window buttons, enlarge slightly when touched.
Apple's newly announced lineup—an OLED iPad mini, M6-powered MacBook Pro and iMac, and its first touchscreen MacBook Pro—is now available for pre-order on Amazon, with prices starting at $699 for the iPad mini and reaching $3,399 for the 16-inch touchscreen MacBook Pro. The touchscreen model also introduces Apple's first OLED Mac display and Dynamic Island feature. All devices are set to ship starting November 6.