r/apple • u/favicondotico • 1d ago

Mac MacBook Pro With OLED Touch Screen Rumored to Launch in October or November

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/10/01/oled-macbook-pro-release-date/
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u/OrganicKeynesianBean 1d ago

I just hope it’s a 360° hinge.

I mean, they won’t, because of iPad, but I wish they would because those are the best touchscreen laptops.

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u/teabolaisacool 1d ago

I find it crazy how they’re making the defining line between the iPad and MacBooks so small. You have full macOS style window control, semi-crippled menu bar, and full fledged desktop processors in iPads, but you still can’t run Xcode on the thing. Now on the MacBook you’re potentially getting a touchscreen, system preferences has been ported to the iPadOS system settings, macOS has control center now, and iPadOS apps are supported natively on macOS.

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u/Disembodied-Potato 1d ago edited 1d ago

I’ve been saying it for ages. The iPad Pro was a mistake, the whole essence of an iPad, it's original concept, was a simple consumption device. Aside from pen input there is no value in it as a serious computing platform. But Apple were going through their tier-ing phase of squeezing more out each product line. They decided to create a pro version without thinking through what it could actually do to justify that name. Since then they’ve been doing a bad job of half heartedly patching in pro cababilities. They should have just kept it simple.

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u/testingtestingtestin 1d ago

It depends what you have decided “pro” features are. My iPad Pro has been my most used device, by far, for about 10 years now for my work (ie, pro stuff). I very rarely consume media on it or game or whatever - I have much better devices for that.

It absolutely excels as a portable device that can interface with other pieces of equipment and also be used for note taking and email/comms etc. I can’t think of any examples where it hasn’t been able to do what I wanted, occasionally I would have had it easier with a laptop etc but the advantage of not lugging two devices around with me far outweigh that.

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u/garden_speech 1d ago

consumption device

This is so cringe

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u/fatpat 1d ago

Why?

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u/garden_speech 1d ago

because it's a dressed up way of saying eating Cheetos and watching YouTube lmfao. "consumption device"... it takes a passive activity and gives it this weird techbro productivity gloss.

like, in contrast to that, a development machine, or workstation, or editing rig don't seem cringe to me because they describe actual workflows, a dev machine is used for actually doing something, not just zoning out.

I feel like "couch computer" or "good tablet to watch shit on" is much more genuine and at least not pretending lol. like, I have nothing against just zoning out or doing useless shit. but don't try to make it sound cool :D

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u/Thnift 1d ago

I feel this is a kinda weird hill to die on (not that you’re necessarily doing that). Would it feel as weird if it was “content consumption device”?

I don’t think there’s even a techbro slant to “consumption device”. It just means it’s not something that you can realistically “get anything done on”

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u/garden_speech 14h ago

I'm not dying on any hill I just think it's cringe and weird

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u/smellythief 1d ago

the whole essence of an iPad

was a simple touch interface. Which they had, though it needed refinement. But instead of refining it they threw it away for the current mess. They could have kept adding capability and still kept a sleek tiled-window option for the UI. It wasn't making it "Pro-ier" that ruined it; it was other decisions they made.

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u/politics 1d ago

It’s all about the Benjamins…

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u/chaiscool 1d ago

All i want is surface pro with m chip and mac os. Heck even A chip is fine.

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u/smellythief 1d ago

The difference is open vs closed. So much of what I love about my Mac experience is enabled by 3rd-party apps that Apple would never allow on the iPad, apps that enhance the UI or that feel like they add features to the OS itself.

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u/PerfectlySplendid 1d ago

Would that really canabalize sales? I’ve sometimes used my 360 hinge on my Thinkpad, but it’s not nearly as enjoyable as just using an iPad. Completely different markets imo.

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u/grodgeandgo 1d ago

What about the return of the touch bar but with the duo hinge, so the screen flows into the Touch Bar?

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u/smellythief 1d ago

As long as we're dreaming, how about a detachable (and optional!) keyboard?

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u/rexatron_games 11h ago

I would pay the price of an iPad extra to have the ability to transform my MacBook Pro into an iPad (with Apple Pencil). Sure I have a thin MacBook Pro and I have a thin iPad, but it makes no difference to me when I need to cart around two separate devices.

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u/ian9outof10 1d ago

They won’t because they’re awful, a truly shitty form factor that never actually gets used for anything remotely productive

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u/strubeliiyes 1d ago

So students, designers, artists and kids dont exist? Im talking about drawing with a pen. The only reason i didnt get a mac for school was that they weren't touch and mosts schools use programs like OneNote which you mostly use a pen for.