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The Touchscreen MacBook Is Here. For Me, It’s Wait Till Next Year

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The Touchscreen MacBook Is Here. For Me, It’s Wait Till Next Year

Let me know when I can get touch support without the pro-level OLED display (and price).

We’ve been waiting a long time for a touchscreen MacBook. It’s been wished for and rumored about for years, and Apple finally delivered it on Wednesday when CEO John Ternus unveiled the awkwardly named MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display.

Missing in that lengthy awkwardness of a name is any mention of it being the first touchscreen MacBook. Also missing will be me in any line waiting to buy this new MacBook Pro that starts at $2,899 and quickly escalates from there.

After all this time, the touchscreen MacBook arrives, and the touchscreen part feels like an afterthought. The headliner is the tandem OLED display that promises to be incredibly bright with amazing contrast and incredible color performance. To be sure, those are all wonderful features for creative pros. The thing is, most people, me included, don’t need that level of display performance. And I’d like to be able to tap, pinch and swipe on my MacBook’s display just as I can on my iPhone — plus have the convenience of the Dynamic Island — without needing to spend nearly $3,000.

Wednesday’s announcement has me feeling like Apple is holding a mainstream feature like touch support hostage behind a tandem OLED laptop targeted at a select few. Or perhaps Apple views the elite audience for the MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display (the name doesn’t get any less clunky the more you use it) as its MacOS touchscreen beta testers before it’s ready to roll out touch support to the Mac masses.


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