Apple unveils its first touchscreen MacBook Pro
At its "Pro and tell" event, Apple announced a new MacBook Pro laptop with a touchscreen. The company had long resisted the feature on its laptops.
Technology company Apple announced an all-new MacBook Pro laptop with a touchscreen on Wednesday, 28 October 2026, at an event it called "Pro and tell". It is the first Apple laptop of this kind. The move stands out because Apple resisted touchscreen laptops for years, and its leadership publicly dismissed the idea.
Years of resistance
In 2010, Steve Jobs called touchscreen laptops "ergonomically terrible". In 2012, on an earnings call, Tim Cook, described by The Verge as a former Apple CEO, was asked why he did not think the tablet and the laptop would converge. He replied that you can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but those things are probably not going to be pleasing to the user.
Apple had tried a different approach before. Starting in 2016, MacBook Pro models replaced the function keys with the Touch Bar, a touch strip. With the 2021 MacBook Pro redesign the company returned to physical function keys, and in 2023 it fully dropped the Touch Bar.
A busy week of announcements
The new laptop follows a busy week of Apple announcements. The company has also presented an iPad Mini tablet with an OLED display, along with iMac computers and MacBook Pro models with the M6 chip.
The Verge published the report as a developing story, so technical specifications and pricing for the new touchscreen MacBook Pro are not yet given in the source text.
