💻Apple Adds Touchscreen to MacBook Pro With M5 Pro and M5 Max
Your MacBook just got a touchscreen. Apple finally blinked.
TL;DR
Apple's 2026 MacBook Pro ships with a touch display, a feature Apple executives long called a bad idea for laptops. The M5 Pro and M5 Max models pair it with a tandem OLED PROLED XDR screen. Pro users asked for this for years, and now the hardware is finally good enough.
Apple just put a touchscreen on the MacBook Pro. Yes, the same company that spent years calling touch on laptops a misguided idea. If you do real work on this thing, this is a workflow change. Engineers, scientists, software developers, and media creators have been asking for direct screen interaction for years, and Apple's own marketing chief Greg Joswiak admits it was overdue, at least for users with sophisticated needs. Touch plus the Apple Pencil ecosystem opens up more precise editing and annotation than trackpad-only setups ever allowed. The hardware is the new MacBook Pro with a PROLED XDR display built on tandem OLED with multiple light-emitting layers, powered by an M5 Pro or M5 Max chip. Chief hardware officer Johny Srouji says the combination of chips, display tech, and software architecture finally "met our bar." Apple ran user tests with touchscreen Macs to check its old assumption before shipping. Worth watching: whether Apple's touch implementation holds up against the many PC laptops that already shipped touch and sold well.
Key Points
The 2026 MacBook Pro uses a PROLED XDR display built on tandem OLED with multiple light-emitting layers, a first for Apple's laptop lineup.
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