Apple has officially announced the all-new MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR display, its first touchscreen laptop.
The new machine was first hinted at by Apple on October 19 with the company’s “Pro and tell” experience teaser. Earlier today, new Apple CEO John Ternus shared a “spotlight” teaser for the laptop as well.
Read on for all the details about the new high-end laptop…
MacBook Pro details
The new machine features a light-up Apple logo, tandem OLED, and touch input on the display.
It runs on the M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, like the existing MacBook Pro models without OLED touch displays.
John Ternus, who is rocking a new profile picture with the new Mac, shared the first look at the new machine on X:
Apple previously used a glowing Apple logo on its notebook hardware for years until the 12-inch MacBook and 2016 MacBook Pro.
Pricing for the new laptop starts at $2899 for the 14-inch model. The 16-inch version starts at $3399.
Pre-orders are available starting today with deliveries starting November 6. You can find the product page for the new MacBook Pro here.
Colors include silver or space black options with standard or nano-texture display configurations.
Beyond the new high-end laptop, Apple also announced the redesigned iPad mini, M6 iMac, and M6 14-inch MacBook Pro this week. Back in March, Apple upgraded the standard 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro laptops to the current M5 Pro and M5 Max chips.
Apple calls the new design both thinner and lighter than the standard MacBook Pro models in the same size configuration.
First Mac with touch input
While Apple has innovated with multi-touch on the iPhone and iPad, the Mac has been resistant to touch input for years. The new MacBook Pro changes that with the first touchscreen Mac display. Here’s what Apple says about touch on the Mac.
The new MacBook Pro also introduces intuitive Touch capabilities on the Mac for the first time, opening up a whole new dimension for pros to interact with their content, from manipulating 3D models to playing musical instruments onscreen.
In addition to touch as an additional input method, the new MacBook Pro also adopts the Dynamic Island in favor of the notch.
The Dynamic Island now comes to Mac, serving as the home for Spotlight, Live Activities, and Siri AI.
The new laptops can be configured with up to 128GB of unified memory and 16TB of solid state drive storage.
You can find Apple’s press release for the new machines here.
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