{"id":83345,"date":"2025-10-17T01:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T01:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/83345\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T01:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T01:21:07","slug":"macbook-pro-rumor-points-to-oled-touchscreen-upgrades-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/83345\/","title":{"rendered":"MacBook Pro rumor points to OLED, touchscreen upgrades next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">For several years, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-01-11\/apple-working-on-adding-touch-screens-to-macs-in-major-turnabout?sref=ExbtjcSG\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gurman has said<\/a> that, according to his sources, the next major MacBook Pro revamp would add touchscreens, OLED displays, and a lighter, thinner frame. He reported <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\">last month<\/a> that nothing has changed about that plan other than pushing it back from a late 2025 launch due to OLED supply issues, and today, he expanded on those rumors with details of codenames (K114 and K116) and other specs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">While Windows laptops have had touchscreens for years, Apple has avoided them, instead adding the Touch Bar to its machines for a few years <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/22734645\/apple-macbook-pro-2021-ports-magsafe-touch-bar-usb-c-future\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">before changing course in 2021<\/a>. The report also teases another change that\u2019s already a Windows feature but absent on Macs \u2014 a shift from Touch ID fingerprint scanning to Face ID authentication, which he says is still years away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Before that, he says we should still expect to see M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pro updates with the current design released early next year. Similarly, updated versions of the MacBook Air, Mac Studio, Mac Mini, and two monitors are in the works.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">According to Gurman, the new MacBook Pros will contain M6 series Apple processors, a hole-punch style integrated webcam that\u2019s more like the iPhone\u2019s front-facing camera with its Dynamic Island, and reinforced hinges that don\u2019t bounce around or shift while using the touchscreen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The bad news? Those changes are expected to increase the prices by \u201ca few hundred dollars,\u201d and they\u2019re unlikely to reach Apple\u2019s cheaper laptops the first time around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For several years, Gurman has said that, according to his sources, the next major MacBook Pro revamp would&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[351,23329,356,25023,111,43,139,69,370,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-83345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-apple","9":"tag-apple-rumors","10":"tag-gadgets","11":"tag-laptops","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nz","16":"tag-tech","17":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}