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Apple’s Touch-Screen MacBook Pro Will Get the iPhone’s Pill-Shaped Dynamic Island
Apple will introduce its first touchscreen MacBook Pro with OLED displays and Dynamic Island, blending touch and click inputs in macOS for enhanced user interaction.
- Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports an M6 MacBook Pro will add an OLED touchscreen, marking Apple's first touchscreen Mac this year.
- Apple is updating macOS to make the platform more touch friendly, aiming to provide controls that adapt to touch input and pointer input dynamically.
- Apple will bring the Dynamic Island to the Mac with an interactive hole‑punch camera smaller than the iPhone's pill‑shaped notch, and macOS touch features like pinch zoom, fast scrolling, and a touch‑optimized emoji picker.
- Apple says it will not market the Mac as touch-first and will retain the keyboard and trackpad while adding a touch‑sensitive OLED panel replacing mini‑LED tech.
- Apple plans OLED versions of both the 14‑inch and 16‑inch MacBook Pro, codenamed K114 and K116, with M5 Pro and M5 Max chips next week and M6 Pro and M6 Max on a 2‑nanometer process later this year.
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Apple’s touchscreen MacBooks might also have a Dynamic Island
Apple's OLED touchscreen MacBook Pros set to launch this fall will get a Dynamic Island feature like what's available on iPhones, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Apple first debuted the Dynamic Island with the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max as a pill-shaped cutout that can show information and alerts, though the MacBook Pro's Dynamic Island will be "smaller" than what's available on current iPhones. The new MacBook Pros, which will co…
Apple's touchscreen MacBook will reportedly have a dynamic interface
Apple's plan to add touchscreens to its premium MacBook Pros is coming into focus. Bloomberg reports that when the new laptops launch this fall, they'll feature a Dynamic Island, not unlike Apple's iPhones, and an interface that changes depending on where you touch your Macbook's screen.This "dynamic interface" is reportedly designed to make the transition between mouse input and touch input smoother on Apple's new laptops. Bloomberg says that i…
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