Touchscreen Macbook '100% Confirmed,' Says Reputable Leaker (macrumors.com)
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- News link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/06/12/180236/touchscreen-macbook-100-confirmed-says-reputable-leaker
- Source link: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/11/touchscreen-macbook-confirmed-leaker/
> Instant Digital has a good track record for Apple rumors and has provided some strikingly accurate information in the past, so it's always worth noting what they have to say about Apple's plans. The claim is also backed by several recent reports. [...] Touchscreen support is expected to be one of several major upgrades coming to Apple's next-generation high-end MacBook Pro models. Other rumored features include M6 Pro and M6 Max chips, an OLED display, a Dynamic Island (i.e., no notch), and a thinner design. The new laptops could also adopt MacBook Ultra branding.
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> Notably, macOS 27 Golden Gate also introduces a more touch-friendly interface, since Apple's Sidecar feature now allows users to tap and interact with macOS interface elements using a finger on their iPad. Apple apparently is not going to advertise the new MacBook Pro/Ultra as a touch-first device like the iPad -- it will be "touch-friendly, not touch-first," according to [Bloomberg's Mark Gurman]. In that sense, Apple will let customers use touch and mouse gestures interchangeably for all functions.
Further reading: [2]Steve Jobs Was Wrong About Touchscreen Laptops (2012)
[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/11/touchscreen-macbook-confirmed-leaker/
[2] https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/12/02/025251/steve-jobs-was-wrong-about-touchscreen-laptops
Reputable leaker? (Score:2)
Is that like a reputable trade secret thief?
I don't know man (Score:2)
Just don't wink at all when you describe someone as "reputable leaker"
Sure. . . (Score:2)
They said it was supposed to be launched in 2025. But now it will be 2026 or 2027. I am not confident this will be a thing until Apple makes changes to the MacOS to allow for better touchscreen controls. I have a touchscreen laptop now running Windows. Some controls are way too small to use with it. It is minimally useful. In fact it is more of a pain if I accidentally touch the screen. Lastly, once in a while, it will for some unknown reason switch and lock in portrait tablet mode even though tablet mode i
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. Some controls are way too small to use with it.
Would you use a racing wheel to manage files ? What about a keyboard for drawing program ? Wo why are you complainig that controls too small to use via touch screen are too small - AND, this is why touch screen is 'minimally' useful? bro..
Will the screen fold back flat? (Score:2)
If I can use it in "tablet mode" then this would be an amazing feature. I would seriously consider buying one. If not, it's pretty much useless.
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Didn't Fujitsu Lifebooks and a few Thinkpads also do that? It's not like it's a new thing. I remember seeing nurses with an arm of those Lifepads in a hospital setting once. I know that the famous Thinkpad x61 had a tablet version.
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Yes, Lenovo had this feature. They were called the Yoga.
Re: Will the screen fold back flat? (Score:2)
Apple is trying to turn the PC into a tablet, not the tablet into a PC!
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Why not just get an iPad w/ a keyboard? The keyboard is detachable, you know?
While just scrolling through this article... (Score:2)
While just scrolling through this article on an XPS 13 with a 4k+ toouchscreen, I used the track pad, the touchscreen, and the down arrow. I don't touch my touchscreen all the time or even every day, but when I do want to use it, I don't want to go, "Oh, damn, not a touchscreen," like I have while using my Macbook Air. That is even more annoying than the swapped key locations on Macbooks and Lenovos.
Question ? (Score:2)
Does anyone want this?
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yes. why would anyone not want it?
Re:Question ? (Score:5, Insightful)
Because it makes your screen all dirty and gives you gorilla arms. Any other stupid questions ? PS: I've been known to punch colleagues who touch my screen after I told them not to.
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don't touch your screen then. You realise that you don't have to touch the screen, it's only an option for people that want to be able to ?
Re:Question ? (Score:4, Funny)
> Because it makes your screen all dirty and gives you gorilla arms. Any other stupid questions ? PS: I've been known to punch colleagues who touch my screen after I told them not to.
Those punches would be more effective if you had gorilla arms. Just sayin'. :-)
Touchscreen Macbooks vs iPads w/ keyboards (Score:2)
I generally try & use a stylus - generic or specific - if I want to touch the screen. Although sometimes, I do end up touching it
But aside from that, there is another reason to ask your question. We already have iPads that have optional keyboard attachments to them. It looks like from a physical functionality standpoint, people who need a touchscreen Apple computer already have one. Now there is the subtle differences b/w iPadOS apps and Mac apps: like I've heard that spreadsheets have certain fea
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On my work machine, I do the same.
I figured punching is more effective than just yelling.
However for a screen on my lap, a couch potato entertainment laptop, perhaps used in unisono with my iPad, I love it.
Then again: regardless if YOUR laptop has a touch screen or not, no one forces YOU to touch it, or?
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But will it [1]run Linux [slashdot.org]?
[1] https://apple.slashdot.org/story/26/06/10/1629209/macos-27-beta-boots-asahi-linux-off-apple-silicon
Re:Question ? (Score:4, Funny)
Because it makes the device both worse and more expensive?
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if expense is the concern, buy a mac book without a touch screen. Not sure, for example how it's worse being able to hit play on my music app without having to find a mouse pointer using an abstracted input device, i.e. trackpad or mouse. but i guess haters gonna hate.
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if expense is the concern, don't buy a mac book
Fixed it for you.
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How worse? If you don't like a touchscreen, as others pointed out, just buy a Mac
And expensive? One can always go for an iPad, if price is the issue
Because MacOS isn't designed for touch (Score:3)
MacOS has a ton of tiny widgets...good luck pressing the red vs yellow button in the upper left corner reliably....same thing with the extensive use of right click. The desktop OS is heavily optimized for precise pointers. A tablet OS is designed for fat sausage fingers and fudging. MacOS is great for creation: IDEs, Office software, writing, creative arts. IPadOS is a consumption-optimized platform that "can" do things like compose e-mails or write code, but it's just not as good. It might be Good En
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MacOS has a ton of tiny widgets...good luck pressing the red vs yellow button in the upper left corner reliably....same thing with the extensive use of right click. The desktop OS is heavily optimized for precise pointers.
you guys get this wrong all the time. The idea of touch is not to replace your precious mouse or turn mbp into a 'tablet'. There are PLENTY of obvious uses for touch on mac os that include non-precise pointer requirements. E.g. almost any scrolling, like a pdf, spreadsheet, web
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Over the last several releases macOS has been getting more and more like iOS, for better or worse. The UI is less dense now also, so UI anti-patterns like putting controls in the title area to ostensibly better utilize screen real state because necessary.
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Ooooh what if I have metrics across 100ks of laptops that say that nobody seems to intentionally use it? Those that are used it were mostly in a tablet format at the time.
Nobody wants it, but also people have been saying that Apple was going to bring touchscreens in the "next release" since the time of Netbooks. Notably the Macbook 12" was going to come with it.
Maybe they will come, maybe they will not.
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My current laptop is a touchscreen and i find it useful. I tried using a surface and a surface book and they both were awful experiences/ This is on a dell XPS and it has been useful. That being said i do not use it every day
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My last few laptops have all had touchscreens. It is minimally useful, because I don't use a separate mouse with the laptop. Sometimes it is easier to touch the screen than to use the touchpad to move the mouse and click something.
It is just a standard feature at this point. Not really something to care about either way.
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Apparently some very loud minority of people do, yes. These same people seem to love fingerprints all over their screens. Guess Apple can sell more cleaning cloths to them.
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I've used the touch screen on my ThinkPad exactly zero times.