MacBook with OLED and touch: New details

According to a report, Apple is continuing to work on a first MacBook with additional touch control. This is reported by the Bloomberg author Mark Gurman in his latest article. The device is said to be a MacBook Pro with an OLED screen, which will be launched “in late 2026 or early 2027”. The machine with the internal codenames K114 and K116 comes with the – still unknown – M6 chip and is said to have a “thinner and lighter housing frame”.

More expensive, with touch and OLED

If the report is true, Apple would also deliver a touchscreen for the first time with its long-awaited first OLED Mac. This has long been controversial at Apple, where Macs are separated from iPads, especially since macOS is still not adapted for finger operation. Apple’s co-founder Steve Jobs, who died in 2011, was considered an opponent of touchscreen notebooks. However, Apple does not want to omit the keyboard and trackpad: Both control variants, i.e. touch display and traditional, are to be retained.

So far, there is only the iPad Pro in its variants with M4 and M5, in which Apple installs larger OLED displays with 11 and 13 inches. It has been a foregone conclusion for years that these will come to the Mac, but this has been postponed several times, at least according to the rumor mill. Gurman assumes that the new devices will be more expensive than previous MacBook Pro models, which start at 2000 US dollars (14 inches) and 2500 dollars (16 inches, Euro prices are more expensive in each case).

News from the M5 Macs

It is not yet clear whether other Macs will also receive touchscreens. Apple apparently wants to experiment with the MacBook Pro first. There, an OLED touch strip, the TouchBar, had already been introduced and deleted again. However, Face ID facial recognition in the Mac is not yet to come. This will take “years,” Gurman writes. However, the MacBook Pro is supposed to lose the annoying webcam notch, instead a “hole-punch” design is planned, as known from the current Dynamic Island in the iPhone.

Gurman has also heard that Apple is not only working on M5 Pro and M5 Max variants of the just-released MacBook Pro M5 for 2026, but also MacBook Air M5, Mac Studio M5 and Mac mini M5. The design, on the other hand, is said to change little. The new Air is codenamed J813 and J815. Gurman also speaks of two new screens codenamed J427 and J527 – whether it will be two new studio displays or a new Pro Display XDR remains unclear.