alt Hacker NewsMacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch
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15% weight reduction over previous gen macbook pro is great.
Funny how half the press release tries to hide the notch/island/whatever its called. I almost thought they gave up on that, then I finally saw it like 7 or 8 images in.
Doesn't look like it folds back or does tent mode. Those are some good use cases for touchscreen PCs, being able to walk around in tablet mode in something like a warehouse, for example.
Dynamic island looks nice.
I think this is more for the generation that grew up on phones and tablets, who are now in the professional space and like that interaction model
Got the m5 pro like last month. Actually no FOMO this time. I wonder how the AMOLED looks irl, I bet it's sweet but the current pro motion is already top notch.
I want it for the OLED but not for the touch or glowing logo
Just make a fast, sturdy laptop, don’t keep making it lighter, and touch??
Cue the folks who have used nothing but Apple laptops for the past 20 years coming here and wondering who would possibly want a laptop with a touch screen.
Since you can configure it with a 16TB SSD, I wonder, is it QLC or did Apple manage to make it TLC?
This means they've figured out a way to keep the screen from wobbling when poked … let the theorizing commence!
So unbelievably disappointing, right after the disappointment of the Duo. I was in the market for both, the early reviews of the Duo stopped me from upgrading, and the landing page of this new Mac has stopped me from upgrading that.
1. No cellular? This was honestly one of the biggest selling points in my eyes. The iPhone hotspot has been so unreliable lately.
2. Never would use the touchscreen in software engineering. Agree with others that I don't understand a real use case for it, and apparently their website designers can't either.
3. OLED is nice.
4. 24h battery life is nice.
5. No M6 Pro/Max. Just getting one generation up?
6. Not even a cool name? No Macbook Ultra? Macbook Studio? Obviously not important, but even they couldn't justify it as its own separate product from the existing Pros.
On the bright side, the wallet savings are nice. Absolutely not worth a $4,150 hit (using my M4 Pro 48GB/1TB 16" as reference)
I guess they're testing the water before turning on native iPad app support? Not sure why they wouldn't ship it straight away.
They're finally getting OLED, which is one thing that's kept me on competitor laptops. They're just so much easier on my eyes.
The touchscreen would make sense for a hybrid laptop convertible. But in this form factor I cannot understand.
Have they figured out how to fit an LTE modem into a 16” MacBook Pro?
Or does one still have to go to Dell for that?
I'm so perplexed that they chose this product name, while still retaining their existing Macbook Pro product line.
The fancy OLED display would actually be a potential reason to finally upgrade from my M1 Pro but even if I could afford it, I find prices like that hard to swallow (and I couldn't care less about touch in a laptop fwiw). Guess I'll buy one used in a year or three, maybe.
Jobs getting cooked in the grave...
It's sort of outrageous to launch a new product like that but not with M6, I am gonna wait for the M7 version
Apple directions is going insane. there is no other explanation.
They refused for decades to put a touchscreen because they know very well it will eat on their ipad sales.
One less reason to get an ipad pro.
Such an advanced OLED display only to be covered by fingerprints after a week of use.
looks like they brought back the glowing apple logo on the lid for the first time in a decade!
the older macbooks used the display's backlight to illuminate the logo, but since these new OLED displays light up individual pixels I wonder how they're lighting it up now...
so many complains on touch screen is how i know it will be a banger
I don't like it, it still will be a popular laptop and within 5 years - one of the best. I am moving away from Apple, thank you for a ride!
I'm just excited the Apple logo glows again
I was hoping a 2-in-1 foldable that acts like an iPad too. I have been waiting decades for that.
I'm curious as to how the touch feature will work (if at all) with privacy screens.
I like OLED screen but don't care at all for the touch screen.
The price is really high too.
Apple finally delivers what some users have been screaming about wanting for over a decade and now… people don’t want touchscreen Macs. lol
Touch screen could be nice for running ipad apps
Does it support the Pencil?
OLED: yes
Glowing logo: sure
Touchscreen: nah
Is there any reason this wouldn't work with an apple pencil too?
how did they reduce the weight? the design looks the same
tandem OLED is one of those techniques that makes me think "why didn't we just do this in the first place?"
A touch screen MacBook is a mistake.
might lowkey not be that useful if the display cant do a 360 or atleast 180, and also the hinge will probably still be wobbly.
It's ergonomically terrible.
It doesn't work.
Steve Jobs said this in October 2010 during Apple's "Back to the Mac" special event, where the company was previewing Mac OS X Lion.
Everything is going down the drain right in front of our eyes.
I can't make sense of any counterargument as anything but copium.
It's very unfortunate that there now isn't a single desktop operating system not ruined by touchscreen support.
No gorilla glass for gorilla arm?
Foldable iPhones that break and touch screen MacBooks in an age where non professionals do virtually everything in a browser.
What exactly does Apple do different again?
I'd love if Apple made a Macbook Pro where the display opens more than 135 degrees. Am I the only one?
Will touch and dynamic island be supported in clamshell mode? Can they be enabled in other Macs?
A nice simple lineup, very easy to choose
- MacBook Neo
- MacBook Air 13-inch (M5)
- MacBook Air 15-inch (M5)
- MacBook Pro 14-inch (M6)
- MacBook Pro 14-inch (M5)
- MacBook Pro 14-inch (M5 Pro)
- MacBook Pro 14-inch (M5 Max)
- MacBook Pro 16-inch (M5 Pro)
- MacBook Pro 16-inch (M5 Max)
- MacBook Pro 14-inch with PROLED XDR Display (M5 Pro)
- MacBook Pro 14-inch with PROLED XDR Display (M5 Max)
- MacBook Pro 16-inch with PROLED XDR Display (M5 Pro)
- MacBook Pro 16-inch with PROLED XDR Display (M5 Max)
I like how I can see its screen quality on my screen.
Why do videos of screens look amazing even when viewed on an inferior monitor? This is not a new observation of mine - even as a child, I'd see fuzzy, snowy commercials for big screen TVs on my 13 inch color TV, and they always looked so much better than the TV I was watching them on.
No folding and no Apple Pencil support sadly, would've been a kickass 2-in-1. Would have to wait for ProCreate to be ported to macOS though