Macbook Pro Rumor Points To Oled, Touchscreen Upgrades Next Year

Apple just announced 14-inch MacBook Pro updates that adhd a caller procreation M5 processor, faster storage, and a committedness of 24-hour artillery life, but Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman now reports adjacent year’s refresh will beryllium much thorough.

For respective years, Gurman has said that, according to his sources, nan adjacent awesome MacBook Pro revamp would adhd touchscreens, OLED displays, and a lighter, thinner frame. He reported last month that thing has changed astir that scheme different than pushing it backmost from a precocious 2025 motorboat owed to OLED proviso issues, and today, he expanded connected those rumors pinch specifications of codenames (K114 and K116) and different specs.

While Windows laptops person had touchscreens for years, Apple has avoided them, alternatively adding nan Touch Bar to its machines for a fewer years before changing people successful 2021. The study besides teases different alteration that’s already a Windows characteristic but absent connected Macs — a displacement from Touch ID fingerprint scanning to Face ID authentication, which he says is still years away.

Before that, he says we should still expect to spot M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pro updates pinch nan existent creation released early adjacent year. Similarly, updated versions of nan MacBook Air, Mac Studio, Mac Mini, and 2 monitors are successful nan works.

According to Gurman, nan caller MacBook Pros will incorporate M6 bid Apple processors, a hole-punch style integrated webcam that’s much for illustration nan iPhone’s front-facing camera pinch its Dynamic Island, and reinforced hinges that don’t bounce astir aliases displacement while utilizing nan touchscreen. 

The bad news? Those changes are expected to summation nan prices by “a fewer 100 dollars,” and they’re improbable to scope Apple’s cheaper laptops nan first clip around.