Last night was the busiest of the year for Apple fans across the world. Apple’s new CEO, John Ternus, unveiled the iPhone 18 Pro, as well as the iPhone Duo, at Apple Park, Cupertino. And as you would expect, the two phones got the entire industry talking. Along with the two new iPhones, we also got to see the Apple Watch Series 12, Apple Watch Ultra 4, and AirPods 5. Now that the curtain has been lifted off these products, all eyes are on what’s next for Apple: the OLED MacBook Pro. We’ve been hearing about this laptop for a long time, and now that 2026 has roughly four months left, it is worth looking back at what we know so far. So without further ado, let’s take a look at what the OLED Macbook Pro might have in store for us.
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The MacBook Pro has used mini-LED displays for several generations now, but Apple could finally be ready to make the jump to OLED. And if that happens, this could be one of the biggest changes to the MacBook Pro in years.
OLED works differently from mini-LED because every pixel can turn itself off completely when it needs to display black. This allows OLED screens to produce deeper blacks and higher contrast. Colours can also look more vibrant, especially when watching HDR content.
Now despite offering mini-LED displays on its laptops for years, Apple is no stranger to OLED. The company already uses the technology on the iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. A move to OLED on the MacBook Pro would therefore be the next big step in bringing the display technology across its product lineup.
Apple has stayed away from touchscreen Macs even though touchscreen Windows laptops have become super common nowadays. But, this could all change with the next MacBook Pro.
Reports have often pointed out that the next MacBook Pro could come with a touchscreen. Moreover, Apple might also make changes to macOS so that it works better with touch. This is important because simply putting a touchscreen on a MacBook would not necessarily make the experience useful.
Apple could make certain controls easier to interact with using your fingers and add support for familiar gestures such as pinching, zooming and scrolling. In other words, the company may be looking at touch as something that works alongside the traditional keyboard and trackpad experience rather than replacing it.
And then there is the camera cutout.
The current MacBook Pro has a notch at the top of the display to house the FaceTime camera. The next model could reportedly replace this with a smaller hole-punch cutout. But Apple may have another idea for the space around it.
The Dynamic Island, which has become a familiar part of the iPhone experience, could reportedly make its way to the MacBook Pro as well. Apple could use the area around the camera to show notifications, Live Activities and other information.
Apple may also change the physical design of the MacBook Pro. Reports suggest the company is looking at making the upcoming models thinner.
This would be interesting because Apple actually made the MacBook Pro thicker when it redesigned the laptop in 2021. That redesign brought back several ports and introduced the current design language, but Apple could now be ready to move in the opposite direction.
There is still one obvious question, though. If Apple makes the MacBook Pro thinner, will it have to make changes to the ports as well? There is no clear answer to that yet.
You would normally expect a redesigned MacBook Pro to arrive with a new generation of Apple Silicon. This time, however, things could be slightly different.
The upcoming MacBook Pro was initially expected to use Apple’s M6 Pro and M6 Max chips. More recent reports suggest that Apple could instead stick with the existing M5 Pro and M5 Max processors.
The reason reportedly has to do with Apple’s chip roadmap. The company is said to be skipping M6 Pro and M6 Max variants and focusing the M6 generation on the base chip instead.
Apple could then save the bigger upgrade for the M7 generation. The M7 Pro and M7 Max are reportedly expected to place a greater focus on AI performance.
If this turns out to be true, the next MacBook Pro will be an unusual upgrade for Apple. Instead of a new processor being the main attraction, the display and design could end up being the real story.
There is still no confirmed launch date for the redesigned MacBook Pro. Reports currently point towards late 2026 or early 2027, which means Apple’s iPhone 18 launch may not be the company’s final big hardware moment this year.
And honestly, the MacBook Pro could end up being a super interesting one.
Apple has spent years refining the MacBook Pro around Apple Silicon, and the current design has been around since 2021. This time, however, the company could be preparing something that is very different.
An OLED display, touchscreen support, a thinner body and a new approach to the camera cutout would make this much more than another yearly processor upgrade.
What do you think about the upcoming Macbook? Do let us know and keep watching this space for more such updates.
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