Overview
- Apple opened preorders and set availability for its first touchscreen MacBook Pro models for Friday, November 6, with the 14‑inch OLED Pro starting at $2,899 and the 16‑inch at $3,399.
- The new MacBook Pros ship with Apple’s PROLED XDR tandem OLED panels that add in‑panel touch, Dynamic Island, up to 2,000 nits peak HDR brightness, and M5 Pro or M5 Max chips.
- Apple kept familiar ports while changing some base configurations: the OLED M5 Pro starts with 24GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD, Thunderbolt 5 replaces TB4, and the designs are thinner and lighter than prior models.
- Multiple outlets report Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says Apple will refresh the rest of the iPad family in H1 2027 with an OLED iPad Air, a thermally upgraded iPad Pro (vapor‑chamber cooling) and an entry iPad that gains an A19 chip and 8GB of RAM to support Apple Intelligence; those plans are reported, not confirmed by Apple.
- Analysts say the shift to OLED, touch and higher‑end silicon raises component and supply pressure, creates a steep price gap between configurations, and could push Apple to consolidate touchscreen and non‑touch MacBook Pro lines as it readies AI‑focused chips next year.