Touchscreen MacBook Pro launch: 5 things to expect from Apple

Steve Jobs reportedly called the idea "ergonomically terrible".

On Wednesday, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple will announce one anyway.The 14-inch and 16-inch versions will be available.

The price will be much higher than what we have now.

According to Gurman, the product will be positioned as the premium line and won't replace anything.

Apple may combine the lines of touch and non-touch premium devices in the future.According to Gurman, Tim Cook and John Ternus thought that customers were expecting touch on Macs.

However, Apple's industrial design team disagreed.

Touch was considered to be an optional feature rather than a main one.Jobs's fear was that a touchscreen Mac would eat into iPad sales.

Apple has reportedly decided it can offer one without hurting the iPad and may win new customers too.This is not going to replace tablets, as there will still be a need for the keyboard and trackpad as the primary ways to interact with the machine; touch will only add to those.According to Gurman, an M6-chip-equipped entry-level 14-inch MacBook Pro will come out on Wednesday, and the redesigned one sometime next….

There is also said to be an updated iMac this week and the MacBook Air update without OLED screens next year.However, sources state that Apple is testing OLED screens for MacBook Air and iMac, and if it turns out that the touchscreen feature becomes popular enough, it might even be incorporated into more advanced models of Macs.

Touchscreen MacBook Pro launch: 5 things to expect from Apple October 26, 2026.