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Apple Launches First Touchscreen MacBook Pro With PROLED XDR Display
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In Short: At its 'Pro and Tell' event in Los Angeles, Apple unveiled the first touchscreen MacBook Pro, featuring a PROLED XDR OLED display.
At its 'Pro and Tell' event in Los Angeles, Apple unveiled the first touchscreen MacBook Pro, featuring a PROLED XDR OLED display. The new models, available in 14-inch and 16-inch sizes, start at $2,899 and $3,399 respectively.
The 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 starts at $1,999 and features an 12-core CPU and 12-core GPU, alongside Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6 via Apple's N1 wireless chip.
The new MacBook Pro retains Apple’s signature premium build quality, but with refinements that enhance portability and usability. The 14-inch model weighs 3.0 pounds, and the 16-inch model weighs 4.0 pounds.
The PROLED XDR display is a significant feature, with thinner bezels and a visible upgrade in color quality. The display is also responsible for an 14% reduction in weight compared to its predecessor.
The new models include touchscreen controls, Dynamic Island, and a 12MP Center Stage front camera located on the landscape side for video calls. The device supports Apple Pencil Pro and Apple Pencil (USB-C).
Apple’s touchscreen MacBook Pro brings hands-on controls to creative applications, including music production software. The maximum specifications are not available in every configuration.
The new MacBook Pro also features an optional 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet port on the power adapter, Wi-Fi 7, and Bluetooth 6.
The tandem OLED display helps slim it down to a “thinner, lighter design” with up to 24 hours of battery life.
Despite the high price, some critics are disappointed, noting that the touchscreen feature might be out of touch for a laptop that starts at almost $3,000.
Apple is also launching a separate 14-inch MacBook Pro powered by the M6 chip, starting at $1,999.
Background
At its 'Pro and Tell' event in Los Angeles, Apple unveiled the first touchscreen MacBook Pro, featuring a PROLED XDR OLED display.
At its 'Pro and Tell' event in Los Angeles, Apple unveiled the first touchscreen MacBook Pro, featuring a PROLED XDR Display.
What's confirmed
- And despite the awful “PROLED” name, it’s more than just a fancy new display.
- A great-sounding display, but Apple seems out of touch for the touchscreen.
- The tandem OLED display is responsible for a reduction in weight — not the other way around — resulting in a product that’s 14% lighter than its predecessor.
- At its 'Pro and Tell' event in Los Angeles, Apple unveiled the first touchscreen MacBook Pro, featuring a PROLED XDR Display.
- The 14-inch model starts at $2,899, and the 16-inch model starts at $3,399.
- Apple is preparing to launch five new products tomorrow, November 6, 2026, including its first touchscreen MacBook Pro, an OLED iPad mini, and new M6-powered Macs.
What's still developing
- These premium models represent the cream of the crop of Apple’s laptop products designed for power users and pro creators, with sleek, redesigned builds (3.0 pounds for the 14-inch and 4.0 pounds for the 16-inch), impressive performance, and, most importantly, a new Proled XDR OLED touchscreen display — a feature Steve Jobs himself famously said would be terrible for the MacBook.
- Following up on this year’s $699 MacBook Neo, Apple has carved out a high-end space for its most powerful (and expensive) laptops with the Pro and Max chips.
- Engadget likewise describes the OLED colors as a visible upgrade.
- Apple has been working on an OLED MacBook for several years now, and while some rumors indicated it could be named the MacBook Ultra, Bloomberg suggests the 14-inch and 16-inch notebooks will be in the MacBook Pro family.
- 10:30 am November 6, 2026 By Roland Hutchinson Apple has introduced its latest MacBook Pro lineup, showcasing a massive shift for the Mac ecosystem.
- Picking up the new model, I could immediately tell it was lighter.
- Alongside pre-orders for the new brand new OLED iPad mini, M6 MacBook Pro, and the new M6 iMac, today’s most exciting new unveil from Apple has arrived as well, the new touchscreen-equipped MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and the light-up Apple logo is now also available for pre-order.
- Apple is releasing five new products this Friday, November 6, following pre-orders that opened last week, including its first touchscreen MacBook Pro models.
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- It just landed with iOS 27.3 developer beta update. pic.twitter.com/O6AcDOSppu Essentially, Apple is leveraging the existing Apple Music Sing features into a standalone selfie video tool.
- Apple needs to find a way to recover lost or grayed out songs.
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