{"id":876001,"date":"2026-10-09T06:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T06:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/876001\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T06:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T06:20:11","slug":"apple-will-reportedly-debut-its-first-touchscreen-macbook-in-three-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/876001\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple will reportedly debut its first touchscreen MacBook in three weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Apple is set to introduce a new MacBook Pro with a touchscreen and an updated iPad Mini \u201con or around\u201d October 27th, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-10-08\/apple-set-to-debut-touch-screen-macbook-and-new-ipad-mini-in-late-october\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg reports<\/a>. If true, that would put the event just two weeks after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/1008039\/apple-smart-home-event-october-13th\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 13th event Apple announced today<\/a>, which is rumored to focus on smart home products.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Bloomberg says that the late October event will include an \u201conline video presentation\u201d and an \u201cin-person component for the press,\u201d which it reports is similar to what Apple is planning for the October 13th event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">At this Mac and iPad event, Bloomberg reports that Apple will announce new MacBook Pros that are lighter than what\u2019s available now, have touchscreen OLED displays, and iPhone-like Dynamic Island interfaces. Apple is also apparently planning to announce MacBook Pros that retain the current design but have the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/984118\/apple-m6-m5-ultra-chip-mac-mini-studio\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">M6 chip<\/a> introduced with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/998006\/apple-mac-mini-m6-m5-pro-review\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new Mac Mini<\/a>. And the iPad Mini, which was last refreshed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/10\/22\/24275956\/apple-ipad-mini-2024-review\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in 2024<\/a>, will be updated to shift the front-facing camera onto the landscape side of the tablet and to add a \u201crevamped speaker system,\u201d Bloomberg says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple is set to introduce a new MacBook Pro with a touchscreen and an updated iPad Mini \u201con&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":876002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[517,28484,3,172,74],"class_list":["post-876001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macos","tag-news","tag-tech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}