{"id":309755,"date":"2025-10-17T03:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T03:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/309755\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T03:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T03:53:11","slug":"apples-m6-macbook-pro-generation-will-reportedly-offer-touchscreens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/309755\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#8217;s M6 MacBook Pro generation will reportedly offer touchscreens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Apple insiders are pointing to a tactile new future for the company&#8217;s laptops. Last month, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/computing\/laptops\/a-macbook-pro-touchscreen-about-damn-time-180000315.html\" data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" data-ylk=\"slk:suggested;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suggested<\/a> that Apple would incorporate touchscreens into MacBooks some time in the next few years, &#8220;further blurring the line with the iPad.&#8221; Today, Mark Gurman at Bloomberg confirmed that prediction, <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-10-16\/apple-readies-high-end-macbook-pro-with-touch-hole-punch-screen?embedded-checkout=true\" data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:sharing;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">sharing<\/a> even more specifics about the touchscreen approach for a MacBook Pro that is currently projected for release in late 2026 or early 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Gurman reports that the touchscreen laptops are internally known as K114 and K116, and will run on M6 chips; Apple just introduced the M5 generation of its silicon for this year&#8217;s iteration of the <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/big-tech\/the-first-products-with-apples-m5-chip-could-make-their-debut-this-week-163149688.html\" data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\" data-ylk=\"slk:MacBook Pro;cpos:3;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MacBook Pro<\/a> and <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/mobile\/tablets\/apples-latest-ipad-pro-get-a-power-boost-with-the-new-m5-chip-131036435.html\" data-i13n=\"cpos:4;pos:1\" data-ylk=\"slk:iPad Pro;cpos:4;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iPad Pro<\/a>. His sources also say that the laptops will have OLED screens and will boast &#8220;a reinforced hinge and screen hardware&#8221; so that the display portion doesn&#8217;t move when being used. The laptops will still have a trackpad and keyboard for non-touchscreen control, and will be housed in &#8220;thinner and lighter frames.&#8221; Finally, this laptop will reportedly abandon the notch housing for the MacBook Pro&#8217;s camera in favor of a hole-punch design that leaves a display area around that sensor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Longtime Apple leader Steve Jobs was adamantly opposed to touchscreen computers. But most other computer companies have had touchscreen models available for about a decade, so Apple did adhere to that philosophy for a really long time. Rather than bring touch to a laptop, for a while Apple was trying to position the iPad as being capable of doing all the tasks you&#8217;d use a laptop for, as epitomized in the notorious &#8220;<a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3S5BLs51yDQ\" data-i13n=\"cpos:5;pos:1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:what&#039;s a computer?;cpos:5;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">what&#8217;s a computer?<\/a>&#8221; ad. It should be interesting to see how touch MacBooks and iPads will coexist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple insiders are pointing to a tactile new future for the company&#8217;s laptops. Last month, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":309756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[239,4979,156498,2319,158,156497,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-309755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-apple","9":"tag-macbook-pro","10":"tag-macbooks","11":"tag-mark-gurman","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-touchscreen-laptops","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}