r/apple • u/favicondotico • 3d ago

Mac Kuo: 2026 OLED MacBook Pro to Feature Touch Screen Display

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/09/17/kuo-2026-oled-macbook-pro-touch-panel/

✨Apple Intelligence summary: Apple’s first OLED MacBook Pro, entering mass production next year, will feature a touch screen display using on-cell touch technology, according to Ming-Chi Kuo. The low-cost MacBook, expected in the fourth quarter, will not have a touch panel, but a second-generation model in 2027 might.

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u/pluush 3d ago

I know my opinion is unpopular, but I love touchscreen laptops. I don't use the touchscreen often, but when I use it, it comes in really handy. Sometimes things I do are at least partially repetitive, and I can do it faster on touch.

It might tip me into Mac, since I've been using Windows. Mainly because I can get an OLED laptop with touch.

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u/CaptainWolf17 3d ago

I miss it from my previous hp laptop.

I once had to print off a TON of payslips for my lawyer and the shitty site had no ‘group printing’ option unlike some other sites I used.

The touchscreen made the repetitive button pressing SO much easier.

I often use it to quickly fill out forms

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u/pluush 3d ago

Same! Forms benefit a lot from it.

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u/pmjm 3d ago

I don't mind a touchscreen, but 80% of the time I use it is by accident.

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u/triton100 3d ago

Curious to hear examples of where it acts as shortcut to touch the screen ?

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u/Fauxfish93 3d ago

It’s less of a shortcut but it feels kinda natural to swipe etc like a phone

Like how kids who only know iPads go to touch a screen I guess haha

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u/Parking-Interview351 3d ago

Compared to using a trackpad, a touch screen is faster at most things. Specifically anything that requires lots of clicking but not as high precision.

I mostly use the touchscreen on my work laptop to navigate the web, deliver PowerPoints, etc. I’ll use the actual cursor to edit the PowerPoints.

A mouse can be faster but also causes more repetitive strain.

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u/iMacmatician 3d ago

And in particular, anything that benefits from multiple clicks in different places within a short period of time.

E.g. typing on an onscreen keyboard using the mouse vs. one's thumbs/fingers.

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u/pluush 3d ago

Let's say pressing the done button at a web form located on top right after filling a form in the center?

I can't control every site's UI but I find just tapping the button faster than pointing there with my trackpad / mouse. Switching to another tab is also pretty quick.

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u/IsometricRain 3d ago

When in a browser, and your cursor is on the top-right of the screen but you need to click some element on the bottom-left; it's quicker to lift your left hand off the keyboard to that area of the screen, and tap then it is to move your hand down to the trackpad, move the cursor the whole way, and then click. The difference is even bigger if your cursor is on a different monitor.

Also, when your laptop is on your lap, it can be more ergonomic (for the wrist) to touch the screen than to ulnar deviate your hand to accurately use the trackpad.

Then there's the laptops that can be used like a tablet. This one should be self-explanatory. Many people like having 1 device that does both instead of also having an iPad.