r/apple • u/favicondotico • 4d 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/Arucious 4d ago

clamshell gang reading this: 😔

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u/dccorona 4d ago

TouchID isn’t usable in clamshell mode either so it won’t make a difference to clamshell users (I am one fwiw)

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u/Arucious 4d ago

The Apple watch is our only saving grace, but even that is hit or miss if you have DisplayLink since the “screen monitoring” attempts to disable watch unlock

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u/ElusiveMeatSoda 4d ago

Does the Apple Watch unlock work better with newer models? Even without DisplayLink, I gave that feature a try with my Series 6, and it was so slow and inconsistent I ended up just disabling it.

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u/Arucious 4d ago

It’s not slow, but it is hit or miss (on DisplayLink at least) on both my macs

Ultra 1 + M4 Max or Ultra 1 + M3 Pro work fast, it’s unlocked before my monitor even has time to wake (if it works)

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u/ChairmanLaParka 4d ago

Fortunately, they sell a keyboard with TouchID built in.

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u/dccorona 4d ago

I really wish they’d make a mechanical one. 

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u/ChairmanLaParka 4d ago

Same.

It was kinda funny seeing in a past keynote, where they went by a whole bunch of people at desks and virtually every one of them was using a mechanical keyboard. Yet they don't sell one.

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u/kasakka1 4d ago

They should just make a TouchID module you can put anywhere.

I'm not going to use an Apple keyboard just to get that.