Overview
- Preorders for the 14‑ and 16‑inch MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display opened on Wednesday, Oct. 28, and Apple says deliveries and in‑store availability begin Friday, Nov. 6.
- The laptops use Apple’s M5 Pro or M5 Max chips and support up to 128GB of unified memory and up to 16TB of storage, with Apple estimating battery life up to 24 hours.
- The PROLED XDR screen is a tandem OLED with integrated touch silicon rather than a separate digitizer, and Apple rates it for up to 2,000 nits, a 10,000,000:1 contrast ratio, P3 and Adobe RGB support, and a 120Hz variable refresh rate.
- macOS 27 translates touches into clicks and adds touch‑friendly UI so existing apps respond to fingers, and Apple positioned touch as an optional, secondary input aimed at professional creators and developers.
- Apple redesigned the hinge, thermal layout and anti‑reflective coatings to make touch practical, deliberately omitted Apple Pencil and a convertible tablet mode, and the most heavily upgraded 16‑inch configurations carry very high price tags that have drawn consumer pushback and raised questions about premium demand and supply‑chain pressure.