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💻Apple's New 16-Inch MacBook Pro Hits $5,799 With Touchscreen and OLED

Your MacBook Pro just got a touchscreen and a steep bill

TL;DR

Apple's refreshed 16-inch MacBook Pro ships with an OLED touchscreen, lighter design, and M5 Max chip starting at $5,799. Premium hardware, premium price. If you're buying pro laptops this year, the OLED upgrade alone makes it worth a look, but the RAM upcharge is brutal.

Apple just put a touchscreen on the MacBook Pro, and the price tag is the real headline. The 16-inch model starts at $5,799 with an M5 Max chip, 64 GB of RAM, and 2 TB of storage. For developers, the OLED panel is the big deal. It's a massive jump over last year's MiniLED display, with real blacks, strong dynamic range, and solid color. If you spend your day in dark-mode IDEs or reviewing video and design work, you'll notice. The touchscreen mostly mirrors trackpad gestures, though some creative apps add extra tricks. Don't expect tablet mode, because the laptop doesn't fold over. The rest is familiar. The keyboard, touchpad, and ports are unchanged on the 16-inch model. The Apple logo glows again, and the notch version can maximize apps just below it. Bumping RAM from 64 GB to 128 GB adds another $1,600. The catch? Most people won't need that much memory, and the base configuration already costs more than many workstations.

Apple's New 16-Inch MacBook Pro Hits $5,799 With Touchscreen and OLED — Ars Technica

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The 16-inch MacBook Pro starts at $5,799 with an M5 Max chip, 64 GB of unified memory, and 2 TB of storage configured.

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