Apple’s touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro starts at $2,899. Explore display specs, app compatibility, release dates, and what IT buyers should test before upgrading.

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Apple’s touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro starts at $2,899. Explore display specs, app compatibility, release dates, and what IT buyers should test before upgrading.

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LOS ANGELES—For about five minutes on an extremely crowded showroom floor, I got to take pictures of the new MacBook Pro and test out some of its new features. First impressions: It's not as much of a departure from the previous design as I expected, but the outstanding OLED display steals the show regardless.

The first thing I noticed was that it's lighter. My daily driver is a 14-inch MacBook Pro (M1 Max), and it's a bit weighty for a 14-incher. Picking up the new model, I could immediately tell it was lighter. It's not like it's in a different general weight class, but it's a noticeable difference.

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LOS ANGELES—Apple today announced and gave a first glimpse of its first major MacBook Pro redesign in more than five years. As rumored, it includes an OLED display and, for the first time on macOS, a touchscreen—a change Apple has long debated. (Former CEO Steve Jobs famously was opposed.)

Apple's demonstration video showed users interacting with applications by reaching up to touch the screen, including file dragging and multi-touch gestures like pinch-to-zoom. It does not appear to be a 2-in-1 convertible design, though; all the footage was of people reaching up to touch the screen in a normal laptop configuration.

The OLED display (which Apple is, of course, calling the PROLED XDR) seems to be the real highlight here, compared to earlier models: It can achieve 2,000 nits in terms of maximum brightness, and Apple says it has a 10,000,000:1 contrast ratio. References were made to burn-in protection, but details on which approach it's taking for that weren't yet shared. The display retains the 120 Hz variable refresh rate of its predecessors.

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Apple has just released its touchscreen MacBook Pro, and there’s plenty to get excited about. It’s the first MacBook with an OLED display, powered by the M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, and even gets the Dynamic Island from the iPhone. We’ve heard plenty about these upgrades through leaks and rumors over the past few […]

Compare Apple's OLED iPad Mini and A17 Pro models on display, performance, battery life, and price to see whether the new tablet is worth upgrading to.

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Compare Apple's OLED iPad Mini and A17 Pro models on display, performance, battery life, and price to see whether the new tablet is worth upgrading to.

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