{"id":35042,"date":"2025-09-21T19:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T19:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/35042\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T19:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T19:16:08","slug":"the-touchscreen-macbook-rumors-are-never-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/35042\/","title":{"rendered":"The touchscreen MacBook rumors are never ending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Analyst <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mingchikuo\/status\/1968249865940709538\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ming-Chi Kuo<\/a> took to X on Wednesday to claim that a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/779759\/apple-macbook-pro-oled-touchscreen-rumors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MacBook Pro with an OLED touchscreen<\/a> was expected to enter mass production by late 2026. Today Bloomberg\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/newsletters\/2025-09-21\/mark-gurman-s-iphone-17-first-impressions-touchscreen-macbook-pro-meta-glasses?cmpid=BBD092125_POWERON&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_term=250921&amp;utm_campaign=poweron\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Gurman<\/a> is following up to remind us that he was reporting on a touchscreen MacBook Pro way back in 2023. He confirmed Kuo\u2019s timeline was correct. Since Gurman\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-01-11\/apple-working-on-adding-touch-screens-to-macs-in-major-turnabout?sref=9hGJlFio\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">original story<\/a>, the launch date has been pushed back from late 2025, to late 2026 or early 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Apple has traditionally been resistant to the idea of merging the iPad and MacBook lines, and still likely won\u2019t do it completely. But according to Gurman iPad sales have begun to taper off, and customers increasingly expect touch-based interfaces, even on their laptops. This is in part because many Windows laptops now include touchscreens by default. So Apple is feeling the pressure to bring the two product lines more in sync with each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo took to X on Wednesday to claim that a MacBook Pro with an OLED touchscreen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[936,203,61,60,2047,43,216,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-35042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-apple","9":"tag-gadgets","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-laptops","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-tech","15":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}