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Apple's first touchscreen MacBook Pro feels both familiar and radically improved

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Apple's first touchscreen MacBook Pro feels both familiar and radically improved

It's thinner, lighter and has a better screen — but it's still a MacBook Pro.

As expected, Apple announced its first MacBook Pro with a touchscreen at its "Pro and Tell" event today in Los Angeles. I've gotten a chance to quickly check it out the "MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display" and — it feels like a MacBook Pro. Apple didn't reinvent the wheel with this redesign, even though there are a ton of significant changes. The company kept the standard 14- and 16-inch screens, though the display has obviously been massively improved.

Despite the reduction in weight (the 14-inch is three pounds, while the 16-inch is four), Apple kept the same set of ports on these new models, and the keyboard and trackpad appear to be the same reliable and comfortable options that have been on the MacBook Pro since its big 2021 redesign. It's funny how shaving half a pound makes a huge difference, but it absolutely does in this case.

This isn't the first time that Apple has dramaticaily reduced the weight of the MacBook Pro — the infamous 2016 Touch Bar models were also about the same weight. But they also ran Intel chips and had notorious difficulty staying cool and performant under heavy work loads. I have to wager that won't be the case here, but it's definitely something we'll want to look out for when we do more in-depth testing.

In 2024, Apple released the iPad Pro with its "tandem OLED" screen, one that I called the nicest display I had ever seen on an Apple device.


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