Overview
- The MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display began shipping and reached stores on Friday, November 6, with 14‑inch and 16‑inch models starting at $2,899 and $3,399 respectively.
- All reviews praise the PROLED tandem OLED as a major display leap, citing deeper blacks, up to 2,000 nits peak brightness, P3 plus Adobe RGB color modes, and strong uniformity for color‑critical work.
- Apple kept the M5 Pro and M5 Max chips for these models and priced the OLED-plus-touch option about $400 above the identical‑chip mini‑LED MacBook Pros, making the upgrade a premium choice.
- The touchscreen works like iPhone/iPad touch gestures and helps with quick tasks such as zooming and scrubbing, but reviewers say it is a secondary input at launch because there is no Apple Pencil support and many third‑party apps and macOS refinements arrive later.
- Reviewers flagged practical launch issues including perceptible hinge wobble when tapping, mixed speaker tuning that accentuates bass for some users, and the expectation that broader app updates and developer APIs will determine whether touch becomes a core workflow; the PROLED rollout could also push wider industry OLED adoption as suppliers scale up.