Apple's New MacBook Pro Is the First Mac You Can Touch
Apple opened preorders on Oct. 28, 2026, for a redesigned MacBook Pro that takes touch input, the first Mac to do so. The company says that the 14- and 16-inch laptops begin reaching customers Friday, Nov. 6, 2026, that the 14-inch model starts at $2,899 and the 16-inch at $3,399, and that preorders are open in 30 countries and regions, including the U.S.
Apple's announcement describes touch as an addition to the keyboard and trackpad rather than a replacement for either: scrolling a page with a swipe, pinching to zoom a photo, drawing with the whole screen as a canvas instead of the trackpad's small patch, playing software instruments onscreen, and testing iPhone and iPad apps on the Mac itself. The company says the touch sensor sits inside the display panel rather than in a layer above it, which it says shortens the delay between a finger and what moves on screen, and that macOS turns touches into clicks, so many apps that already exist respond to them without being rewritten.
The screens use tandem OLED, which Apple calls PROLED XDR. The company puts peak brightness at up to 2000 nits and battery life at up to 24 hours, both its own figures, from testing it says it carried out in September 2026. The laptops run Apple's M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, which the company calls its most powerful chips ever built for a pro laptop; that ranking, like its description of the display as industry-leading, is Apple's own assessment and carries no outside measurement.
Apple says both sizes are thinner and lighter than the models they replace, helped by the slimmer stack an OLED panel allows, and that a newly designed hinge steadies the screen when a finger pushes on it.
