Apple's M6 Macbook Pro Generation Will Reportedly Offer Touchscreens

Apple insiders are pointing to a tactile caller early for nan company's laptops. Last month, expert Ming-Chi Kuo suggested that Apple would incorporated touchscreens into MacBooks immoderate clip successful nan adjacent fewer years, "further blurring nan statement pinch nan iPad." Today, Mark Gurman astatine Bloomberg confirmed that prediction, sharing moreover much specifics astir nan touchscreen attack for a MacBook Pro that is presently projected for merchandise successful precocious 2026 aliases early 2027.

Gurman reports that nan touchscreen laptops are internally known arsenic K114 and K116, and will tally connected M6 chips; Apple conscionable introduced nan M5 procreation of its silicon for this year's loop of nan MacBook Pro and iPad Pro. His sources besides opportunity that nan laptops will person OLED screens and will boast "a reinforced hinge and surface hardware" truthful that nan show information doesn't move erstwhile being used. The laptops will still person a trackpad and keyboard for non-touchscreen control, and will beryllium housed successful "thinner and lighter frames." Finally, this laptop will reportedly wantonness nan notch lodging for nan MacBook Pro's camera successful favour of a hole-punch creation that leaves a show area astir that sensor.

Longtime Apple leader Steve Jobs was adamantly opposed to touchscreen computers. But astir different machine companies person had touchscreen models disposable for astir a decade, truthful Apple did adhere to that accuracy for a really agelong time. Rather than bring touch to a laptop, for a while Apple was trying to position nan iPad arsenic being tin of doing each nan tasks you'd usage a laptop for, arsenic epitomized successful nan notorious "what's a computer?" ad. It should beryllium absorbing to spot really touch MacBooks and iPads will coexist.