Apple is planning not one, but two MacBook Pro upgrades this year, and the second one will be a big one.
This is according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who claims that Apple’s new generation MacBooks and Mac desktop computers are “ready to go.”
We’ll reportedly see new MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, and Mac Studio computers in the “first half of the year,” wrote Gurman, adding that Apple also working on a new display.
We’ve previously written about these, including the possibility of Apple launching a 16-inch MacBook Pro with an M5 Pro/Max chip as soon as Jan. 28.
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Gurman, however, says that Apple might upgrade its MacBook Pro devices a second time this year, “toward the end of 2026.” Then, we could get a more significant revamp of the MacBook Pro, which could get the new M6 Pro/Max chip, an OLED display, touch support, and a hole-punch style of camera (instead of the current notch) with something akin to the iPhone’s Dynamic Island around it.
OLED is a big deal as it brings better contrast, improved color accuracy, and deeper blacks, compared to the LED displays that the MacBook Pro currently has.
But the really big news is touch support, which would be a first for Apple. The company has kept its touch devices (iPad) and laptops (MacBook) separate so far, with Steve Jobs once famously claiming that touch screens don’t belong on laptops.
We’ve heard bits and pieces of these reports before, but the timeline is interesting. Apple rarely updates its MacBook Pro computers twice in a year, though it did that once in 2023 (the M2 Pro/Max models launched in January, followed by M3 Pro/Max models in October).
