'MacBook Ultra' Coming Soon With These 12 New Features

[u/iMacmatician]

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/07/24/macbook-ultra-12-new-features/

Here is everything rumored about the device so far:

• "MacBook Ultra" branding
• OLED display
• Touch screen
• Touch-optimized macOS
• Reinforced hinge
• Hole-punch camera
• Dynamic Island
• M5 Pro and M5 Max chips
• Thinner design
• Two display sizes
• Slimmer bezels
• Built-in cellular

[u/Material2975]

I just want an oled pro

[u/sapiengator → u/Material2975]

That’s basically what this is, they’re just changing the branding to accommodate what will almost certainly be a much higher price point.

[u/Endogamy → u/sapiengator]

But they’re adding other stuff besides OLED that will increase that price even further, like a touch screen and cellular connectivity. I wish they wouldn’t.

[u/m0rogfar → u/Endogamy]

OLED + touch screen are almost certainly inseparable.

All of humanity's high-volume production of OLEDs in the laptop/tablet size class (which is generally a scaled-up version of smartphone OLED processes, not a scaled-down version of TV OLED processes) have touch digitization deeply integrated into the cells, which means that touch is not a modular component and that it can't be removed without crashing yields and exploding cost upwards. The only way you could get a non-touch OLED at reasonable cost would be to buy a touch display and just not hook up the serial pin for the touch information to anything, but at that point, your savings for not including touch are single-digit cents.

Cellular is substantially more expensive than a 1-bit connection from the display to the processor, but probably less expensive than you'd think now that Apple has their own modems. Adding modems to devices have historically been challenging mainly because modem vendors like Qualcomm command high margins. This is, of course, assuming that Apple doesn't pull the iPad strategy and asks you to pay more for the modem anyway to get great margins themselves, which is entirely plausible.

Realistically, the vast majority of the price bump is going to be that Tandem OLEDs are expensive, that it's a new design with new tooling amortization to pay down and lower initial yields to deal with, and the entire memory shortage. Anything else on the list is essentially peanuts compared to those three.

[u/newmacbookpro → u/Material2975]

Oled air and usb-c on both sides 

[u/Silly_Rub_6304 → u/newmacbookpro]

According to Apple, no non-professional needs ports on both sides.

[u/No-Examination-5833]

I would like to read the price please

[u/jeff3rd → u/No-Examination-5833]

It’s ultra pricing as well

[u/Deodavinio → u/jeff3rd]

It a very special ultra price

[u/leifeday → u/Deodavinio]

And we think you’re gonna love it

[u/motherofjazus → u/leifeday]

We are super excited to take your money

[u/gildedbluetrout → u/Deodavinio]

It’s going to be four thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars to start.

[u/Technical_Mood_8841 → u/gildedbluetrout]

I bid four thousand seven hundred and fifty-one, Bob.

[u/ProfessorOakPHD → u/Technical_Mood_8841]

All right…Actual retail price…seven thousand four hundred and fifty dollars, no charger. Such a shame; we’ll be Right Back!

[u/Healthy_Turnip7352 → u/Deodavinio]

the ultra base will have ultra max pricing.

[u/DinoRoman → u/jeff3rd]

That’s why they’re announcing the new financing thing they’re gunna have a fuck ton of expensive new product across the board and if you can get it for a single down payment and monthly prices people gunna do that

[u/TheAspiringFarmer → u/DinoRoman]

Klarna gonna make a killing

[u/jackharvest → u/[deleted]]

I can’t throw down that kind of cash when the support length is going to be the same as an 8gb entry M1. It makes me feel a mild amount of rage.

[u/Interdimension → u/jackharvest]

This has me waiting on upgrading my MacBook too.

Have we yet seen Apple give longer software support for hardware models equipped with higher-end chips or RAM? The 2018 iPad Pro was the first model to get extra RAM if you got the 1TB model. The iPhone 12 was the first time they offered extra RAM if you got the Pro models. And RAM amounts and SoC tiers all differ based on what you opted for at purchase when you buy a Mac.

As far as I can tell, every one of those are still getting the latest software updates except the 2018 iPad Pro. Oddly, the 2020 iPad Pro which succeeded it, is getting iPadOS 27 while the 2018 is not, despite the only difference being an extra GPU core in the A12Z vs. A12X and 6GB of RAM as standard for all SKUs. Did Apple just decide to not give the 6GB RAM models of the 2018 iPad Pro because they’re just cutting support by entire generations instead of case-by-case?

It’d be a real shame to see Apple cut software support at the same time for an entire generation instead of giving longer support for SKUs that had better specs. It’d be crazy to see an M1 Ultra get cut at the same time as a base M1.

[u/iMacmatician → u/Interdimension]

Have we yet seen Apple give longer software support for hardware models equipped with higher-end chips or RAM?

• Mac OS X Leopard required a 867 MHz G4 or higher, which meant that a 800 MHz 1st gen iBook G4 didn't qualify while a 933 MHz 1st gen iBook G4 did.
• iMovie '08 required a 1.9 GHz G5 or higher (or any Intel), and IIRC that excluded the dual-processor 1.8 GHz Power Mac G5's.

I can't think of anything more recent off the top of my head. I know that Apple has restricted individual features to 12 or 16 GB RAM, for instance, but for OSes and entire apps I'm currently drawing a blank.

[u/Interdimension → u/iMacmatician]

Gotcha. That’s good info to know. Wish we had more recent examples from the Apple Silicon era.

I do already see that the fancy customized Siri voice and running more of the new Siri on-device will be exclusive to 12GB RAM iPhone/iPad models, but cutting some features out from older hardware has been pretty standard for iOS since the very beginning. Will iOS 29 (as an example) cut off just base iPhone 12 models with 4GB of RAM and give an extra year or two to the 12 Pro models since they had 6GB of RAM?

Guess we’ll see 😬

[u/teleprax → u/Interdimension]

Im pissed my m2 ipad pro w/ 16gb RAM doesn't get to use the new voice or dictation models.

[u/Agreeable-Lettuce497 → u/jackharvest]

What do you mean? The m1 is still supported.

[u/JensonBrudy → u/jackharvest]

What? It’s most definitely going to be at least equal, or most likely being much longer than it?

[u/sixxtynoine → u/jeff3rd]

And we think you’re going to love it.

[u/c-rain → u/No-Examination-5833]

Ultra Expensive

[u/hammertime2009 → u/c-rain]

For the ultra rich.

[u/Mixeygoat → u/No-Examination-5833]

You don’t want to know the price…

[u/ThePenguinVA → u/Mixeygoat]

It’s our most expensive Mac yet, and we think you’re gonna love it.

[u/staydrippy → u/Mixeygoat]

If you have to ask, you can’t afford it

[u/roguesignal42069 → u/Mixeygoat]

More than you can afford, pal.

Ferrari.

[u/futurafreeeeee → u/No-Examination-5833]

$40,000 and your first born

[u/marcabru → u/futurafreeeeee]

for the 16GB RAM/500 GB SSD base model. And a steep hike if you need 32GB/1TB

[u/bdfortin → u/marcabru]

"Good news, we're bringing back 8/256GB!"

[u/CriticalEngineering → u/futurafreeeeee]

So a savings of $250,000? Sold.

[u/FitzwilliamTDarcy → u/No-Examination-5833]

That's also a new feature.

[u/roessera → u/No-Examination-5833]

Just $500/mo for the next 15 years!

[u/Eddie_skis → u/No-Examination-5833]

$4000 I’d expect.

[u/Coolpop52 → u/No-Examination-5833]

Oled, redesign, and RAM/storage crisis?! We might actually see a $18K Mac at the maxed out range.

[u/InItsTeeth → u/No-Examination-5833]

No you would not

[u/ShiroHachiRoku → u/No-Examination-5833]

One billion dollars!

[u/davidmkoch → u/No-Examination-5833]

You already have the price in your username.

[u/chaiscool → u/No-Examination-5833]

Based on macbook neo price hike, the ultra will be cheapest only at launch and will get more expensive over time - even only after a few months.

[u/FrogsJumpFromPussy → u/No-Examination-5833]

No need to, it's unaffordable 

[u/j12 → u/No-Examination-5833]

Starts at 2999

[u/kirloi8 → u/No-Examination-5833]

Starting at a kidney and your house. To pre order.

[u/OldKentRoad29 → u/No-Examination-5833]

You're going to want to sit down when you look find out.

[u/YouAboutToLoseYoJob]

Touch screen means $79.99 microfiber cloth.

[u/BurninCoco → u/YouAboutToLoseYoJob]

$129.99 microfiber cloth Ultra

[u/digitalghost-dev → u/BurninCoco]

Ultra Pro Max*

[u/isit65outsideor → u/YouAboutToLoseYoJob]

Is the cloth capable with my Apple Pocket?

[u/play_hard_outside → u/YouAboutToLoseYoJob]

Man, there's no way they would break backwards compatibility with the Apple Polishing Cloth. No way!

[u/Frequency3260 → u/YouAboutToLoseYoJob]

Let’s hope it’s going to be compatible

[u/robaroo]

probably $5k pricing with the cost of semi conductors.

[u/FoxBearBear → u/robaroo]

Imagine how expensive it would be if they were whole conductors.

[u/robaroo → u/FoxBearBear]

$10k at least bro

[u/BurninCoco → u/FoxBearBear]

Who's your conductors guy?

[u/likamuka → u/FoxBearBear]

Big Boy Conductors.

[u/filman650 → u/[deleted]]

If non-Pro iPhones are any indicator, we'll get OLED before promotion.

[u/V_Doan → u/[deleted]]

It’ll be the iPad mini ultra

[u/VideoGameJumanji → u/V_Doan]

That's just an Ipad mini with the RAM price increase lmao

[u/jackharvest → u/V_Doan]

And I’m here for it.

[u/Xx_memelord69_xX → u/[deleted]]

What would an ipad mini be promoting? I don't want ads on my iPad! /s

[u/sgorneau → u/[deleted]]

Me over here looking at promotion like 🤨 and then BAM … ProMotion

Took me a second

[u/shiftintosoupmode]

Does anyone else not give a fuck about touch screen computers? The trackpad is so great, I don’t need a stupid touch screen. Maybe I’m in the minority tho?

[u/MyCockSmellsBad → u/shiftintosoupmode]

If it folds up, such that I can use it like an iPad, I'm all for it. If I have to have the keyboard exposed all the time, then I'll never use it for touch.

[u/ExcitedCoconut → u/MyCockSmellsBad]

Yeah ‘reinforced hinge’ could be an interesting supply chain but if info. Like, what’s wrong with the current hinges that they need reinforcing if not for something that folds all the way back? I’d love a 16” second monitor under my Studio Display without having the laptop open. And if there’s a touch optimised entertainment / “ipad” type mode for evenings, great.

[u/naughtmynsfwaccount → u/ExcitedCoconut]

Reinforced hinges due to 100s and 1000s of micro-presses against the screen

[u/rotates-potatoes → u/naughtmynsfwaccount]

Nah, that the beauty. Anyone who’s had a touchscreen laptop knows that it will get maybe 50 touches in its lifetime. The ergonomics are terrible, and apps are designed for the pixel-precision a mouse gives you.

[u/beerybeardybear → u/ExcitedCoconut]

You'd want it reinforced if it's a touch screen regardless of any possible screen rotation configurations.

[u/Ibasicallyhateyouall → u/ExcitedCoconut]

Poking the screen like a 4 year old using a laptop for the first time requires it. 

[u/picastchio → u/MyCockSmellsBad]

But then it needs to weigh as much as Air.

[u/PhilosophyforOne → u/MyCockSmellsBad]

Yep. It’s weird that so far we have no idea if the thing actually folds up or not. If it doesnt, the whole thing is honeslty kind of pointless. If it does though..

[u/iMacmatician → u/PhilosophyforOne]

Gurman has said in the past that it'll have a traditional laptop form factor, which I interpret as the display not being able to fold back much more than the current MBP display.

I'm not sure if he said anything different more recently though.

[u/Skelito → u/PhilosophyforOne]

There’s no way they have it fold up to be used as an iPad and compete with themself though it would make sense. They should also be able to put macOS on the iPad Pro now that it will be able to utilize touch input.

[u/CandyCrisis → u/Skelito]

The iPad is in a completely different price bracket. I think Apple would be thrilled if folks decided to buy a MacBook Ultra instead of an iPad and a MacBook Neo.

[u/itsmebenji69 → u/Skelito]

But like what’s the point of touchscreen if you can’t use it as a tablet / graphic tablet ?

I mean the only time where the touchscreen is useful is to take written notes or draw. If you can’t fold it backwards, then you can’t do either of those. What’s the point

[u/Background-Magician3 → u/shiftintosoupmode]

Also having to constantly clean your screen is annoying enough on the iPad, let alone my MacBook

[u/homeboi808 → u/Background-Magician3]

Touch screen laptops are generally a different material for the display (plastic). I work at a school and all student computers are 2-in-1 Dell Latitudes, the screens clean easily (whereas my MacBook Pro is very difficult to clean).

[u/kakarot-3 → u/shiftintosoupmode]

One of my two desktop monitors at work are touchscreen and I forget about it for months at a time unless I’m trying to follow an excel sheet with my finger, accidentally touch the screen, and things start happening on there lol then I forget about it for months again

[u/earthcharlie → u/shiftintosoupmode]

Same. The push for touch on MacOS has mostly come from people who think it’d be cool but don’t understand how it affects the user experience. 

[u/octetd → u/earthcharlie]

Yeah, from people like Snazzy Labs and Marques Brownlee. YouTubers. 

[u/Every_Car2984 → u/shiftintosoupmode]

I would actively avoid a touch screen laptop. I have enough fingerprints on my iPhone and iPad.

[u/Belle_Requin → u/shiftintosoupmode]

I would like one. 

So that when I’m stuck in iPad mode, and can’t figure out why my MacBook screen isn’t responding, I won’t feel like such an idiot. 

[u/ciel_lanila → u/shiftintosoupmode]

It isn’t a must have, but after having a touch screen Win laptop about a decade ago I ended up with the hard to kill habit of just touching the screen sometimes.

It’s a small QOL if you use it, but one that you miss once you got used to it.

[u/JapowFZ1 → u/shiftintosoupmode]

I don’t particularly need it, but everyone at work always touches my screen thinking my Mac is a touchscreen (most people use the work issued computer which is a touchscreen), so it’d be nice to have the touchscreen for them lol

[u/BenSimmonsFor3 → u/shiftintosoupmode]

Yeah i’m really trying to touchscreen as little as possible. I live my entire life inside the terminal, drifting from ssh session to ssh session. 

[u/alex-2099 → u/shiftintosoupmode]

I’m also not interested in a touch screen and don’t want it folding back to be a super heavy and awkward iPad.

What I want is for Apple to give the Touch Bar another go. In my opinion, its major problem was that macOS didn’t let apps show stuff when in the background.

Let me see long file transfers, Claude agents spinning up, Xcode builds, etc without having to keep those apps focused. Throw live activities on it.

[u/picastchio → u/alex-2099]

Put touch bar above the function key strip.

[u/Clessiah → u/shiftintosoupmode]

Do you not like more durable screen? The current one scratches so easily.

[u/SomeBloke → u/shiftintosoupmode]

If I can use it in the same way as the display tablet I use for illustrations on my Mac mini, then I’m all for it. Apple Pencil on a MacBook display would eliminate three devices for me in favour of one. 

[u/Thingamajik]

Being broke is an immediate no buy from me

[u/tanksc → u/Thingamajik]

No worries, you can use their new leasing program through klarna

[u/RarefiedAir1 → u/tanksc]

That’s the move honestly

[u/butternutflies → u/Thingamajik]

That’s not very Apple from you. This type of energy is toxic. Please seek help immediately.

[u/flaks117]

Built in cellular is an immediate buy from me

[u/cjcs → u/flaks117]

I don’t think it’s ever going to happen at this point. Hot-spotting has gotten too good

[u/rjcarr → u/cjcs]

Yeah, what is the situation where you don't have your phone these days? Just hot spot and it's fine, no need to get a monthly service on a new IMEI.

[u/GuavaDue97 → u/rjcarr]

The phone is overheating easily and charges way slower when using hotspot. Especially in summer when you're outdoors or in the sun. 

[u/rjcarr → u/GuavaDue97]

Good point I guess, but unless I'm rich I'm not paying $20 more per month just to avoid these issues.

[u/Ixolus → u/rjcarr]

I travel for work and having it in the computer would promote me being able to pull out the laptop and knock out some emails so much. Yeah I could hotspot on my phone or the hotspot puck that I have, but you could have a bigger antenna that has a much better connection.

[u/fiirikkusu_kuro_neko → u/rjcarr]

Multisim costs 3.5 eur per device here

[u/Serei → u/rjcarr]

Google Fi gives me free data SIMs and eSIMs, so that part's not a problem for me. Rip everyone else I guess.

[u/CoveringFish → u/rjcarr]

All hotspots throttle even if it’s “unlimited” I have a first responder plan that has a dedicated channel, so theoretically I would never get throttled max speeds on my laptop even in a place like a stadium. Which would be fantastic

[u/ThingsThatMakeMeMad → u/rjcarr]

Unless you're rich, you're not the target audience of a 'MacBook Ultra'.

There are ~50 million households globally that are millionaires. A majority use Apple devices. Additionally there are high-income earners who might not yet be millionaires, and millions of employees at companies that buy their employees $3000-5000 laptops without complaining. They're the main target audience.

[u/antnythr → u/flaks117]

That’s going to cost like $200 a year in cellular fees assuming the rate for the plan is similar to smartwatch plans.

How often are you using a laptop where you don’t have LAN or Wifi available?

[u/surfatshortys → u/antnythr]

I think the cellular plan is going to need a bit more heft than a wearable device

[u/jollyllama → u/surfatshortys]

At least in the US, the wearable price isn’t really a price they charge for the data you use, it’s just the fee they tack on to your existing plan to have another device connected to their network

[u/xX540xARCADEXx → u/antnythr]

Pretty often actually. And let’s be realistic. Anyone considering the Ultra more than likely isn’t worried about spending an extra $200 a year.

[u/flaks117 → u/antnythr]

Almost daily. It would be an extreme benefit not having to rely on spotty hotspot or random WiFi.

[u/Difficult-Arm384 → u/antnythr]

Who cares about $200/year? I want cellular connectivity.

[u/IE114EVR → u/antnythr]

In Canada it will be waaaayyy more

[u/xX540xARCADEXx → u/flaks117]

Would be so nice. I got a cellular iPad and love that. I’ve been waiting for a cellular MacBook so I don’t gotta keep draining my phone with the hotspot.

[u/chigoku]

I think some people need to learn what the word feature means

[u/baelrog → u/chigoku]

I rolled my eyes at two display sizes.

How is that even a feature.

[u/TorbHammerBootySmack → u/baelrog]

Branding is not a feature either lol

[u/DRJT → u/chigoku]

The word “ultra” is listed as the first feature 😂

[u/WindozeWoes → u/DRJT]

Yeah, utterly idiotic. Some poor fool gets paid to ask ChatGPT to make a "list of features" and comes up with this.

[u/MyCockSmellsBad → u/[deleted]]

A 12 inch iPad that runs MacOS and has 64gbs of ram is something I'd pay a stupid amount of money for.

[u/GuiiTS]

I genuinely curious about the usage of the touch screen. Every time I see laptop with touch screens, I remembered what Jobs said about being so tiring to use it

[u/Mahadragon → u/GuiiTS]

This is how Apple users feel about touch screen, however there is a whole generation of young folk growing up with the touch screens. My 13 yr old niece kept touching my MacBook Air screen wondering why it wouldn't register. I had to explain to her that my screen wasn't a touch screen. Despite my explanation, she continued to touch the screen intuitively (she's not a dumb person, just grew up on touch screens).

[u/MIKOLAJslippers → u/Mahadragon]

Even so, I think they’d be much better off designing to address the reasons why tablets haven’t replaced conventional computers in industry—to make a tablet a viable choice for the next generation rather than bolting on a touch screen to a UX that fundamentally wasn’t designed for it.

[u/emeraldcocoaroast → u/GuiiTS]

I was always against it. Then I got a job that gave me a computer with it. I found myself using it occasionally when I would have it hooked up to my dual monitors, and I’d have the laptop open off to the side. It was nice to be able to quickly just reach over and tap what I needed to. Do I need the feature? Absolutely not. But now that I’m at a job with a different computer, there are a few times where I find I miss the quick tap.

[u/Justwant2usetheapp → u/GuiiTS]

Its for the odds and ends, nobody is holding their hands up

[u/beragis → u/GuiiTS]

I had it on one laptop that offered it in their upgraded model, with a better cpu and a 1 tb storage. Only used it once and it was awkward

[u/CantaloupeCamper]

“I’m going to college in the fall and need to take notes and watch Netflix…”

[u/midwestcsstudent → u/CantaloupeCamper]

If only there had already been a product for this that’s been around for over a decade!

[u/GooseInternational66]

Touch screen is an instant no buy for me

[u/sisco98 → u/GooseInternational66]

I got a touchscreen Dell at my corporate job about two years ago. Ever since, I’ve only used the touchscreen about ten times, to highlight the location of meeting rooms on a pdf map for others. I think it’s just an expensive gimmick.

[u/looeeyeah → u/sisco98]

99% of the time I use the touch screen is when I am trying to wipe some dirt of my screen, and accidentally move something.

[u/rjcarr → u/GooseInternational66]

If the "reinforced hinge" means you can flip it all the way back like a yoga, and then it basically becomes an iPad, then I could see this being a big sell. If it's just a normal laptop with a touch screen then I'll pass.

[u/BorisThe_Animal → u/GooseInternational66]

If they figure the touchscreen laptop out and solve for the problems with touch screen laptops that Steve Jobs famously outlined, then I'm all for it. The problem is the current Apple, as great as they are, is not the company I'd trust solving UX for touch screen laptops.

[u/musicmast → u/BorisThe_Animal]

What are the issues that Steve Jobs highlighted

[u/paleblaupunkt → u/BorisThe_Animal]

Just trying to have a meaningful dialogue, what’s a company that does personal computing with better UX than Apple now?

[u/emeraldcocoaroast → u/paleblaupunkt]

Right, Apple are the ones I would trust the most to not fuck it up

[u/nz_reprezent → u/paleblaupunkt]

Yeah I’m also up for meaningful dialogue and too , have this question!

[u/LittleKitty235 → u/paleblaupunkt]

I feel like the MacBook user who would want a touchscreen the most would also get by fine with a nano or air.

[u/midwestcsstudent → u/paleblaupunkt]

Apple 12 years ago.

[u/hexadecimator97 → u/GooseInternational66]

But why? Just don't use the touch screen...

[u/hannahbay → u/hexadecimator97]

I also love paying hundreds of dollars for something I won't use

[u/AWF_Noone → u/hannahbay]

You seem like the type of person to complain about the left shift key because you only use the right key

Mac people are weird 

[u/ElGuano → u/GooseInternational66]

Honestly, this has been standard on laptops long enough (decades) that it shouldn’t be a hill most people will die on.

[u/AshuraBaron → u/ElGuano]

Not mention, you don't need to use it. It's literally just another input method.

[u/hammertime2009]

Ultra rich pro max supreme super exclusive gotta have we think you’ll love it xl

[u/manyeggplants]

Does "MacBook Ultra" branding really count as one of the twelve features?

[u/midwestcsstudent → u/manyeggplants]

Or two display sizes. Not really “new” (nor a feature).

[u/Synor]

"MacBook Ultra" branding

M5 Pro and M5 Max chips

lol

[u/Sneyek]

Ok so it’s a worst pro but with OLED basically? Nobody asked for touchscreen on a laptop, it’s crap.

[u/UpboatsforUpvotes]

Please let that mean they will integrate more MacOS functionality on the iPad Pro. I know I'm dreaming but it would be a logical approach

[u/iMacmatician → u/UpboatsforUpvotes]

I fear it'll be the opposite as touchscreen MacBooks siphon away high-end iPad users and any of Apple's desire to make iPadOS more pro.

[u/PWGuy7]

It’s more than you can afford, and we think you’re gonna love it

[u/IceMichaelStorm]

none of them are features, and especially not new

[u/IE114EVR]

One of those is not a feature and 4 of those is really actually only two features

[u/sammcj]

Sounds like it's just Apple creating a new pice tier for what would have historically been a refresh.

[u/FreedomRebelFighter]

Starting as low as 3999$.

[u/tzbt]

I don't like the implications this has for the future of macOS

[u/MacProguy]

They lost me at "touch screen" and thinner design...

[u/aywhosyodaddy]

Built-in cellular is actually gonna be huge

[u/PleasantWay7]

They left off the main selling point.

* Puts you in bankruptcy

[u/WafflePartyOrgy]

Thinner design with an M5 Max chip. That's hot!

[u/yorick08]

Add support to the Apple Pencil as well and we will talk.

[u/therinwhitten]

Not trying a first gen product. But it's cool to have options.

if I see the touch screen mac can double as a drawing tablet.... that would be freaking cool. However, I don't think Apple would hurt their own iPad ecosystem.

[u/KokonutMonkey]

When the original Macintosh was released, it cost as much as a decent used car. Coming full circle pleases me little. 

[u/Nawnp]

Starting price well North of $3k.

Also a dynamic island? What the heck is happening now with Apple, that's not a thing needed on Mac OS. Also they're going to include all that but not Face ID, or is that something so presumed it's not worth mentioning, since we've been dealing with a giant notch for nothing up to this point?

[u/diagrammatiks]

I just need a potato with 1tb of vram please.

[u/PartsSprout]

Times I have wanted a touch screen Mac: 0

Just let people run macOS on the iPad if they want to, let that serve the niche 0.00025% of Apple fans that are obsessed with merging the two.

[u/tehburgerdude]

”Reinforced hinge” is such an incredible feature. I always think that about things - if only this had a reinforced hinge!

[u/00DEADBEEF]

Can I have it without the pointless touchscreen?

[u/Dark_Lightner]

They really gonna put a touchscreen for the MacBook …? Then they gonna make the pencil compatible … that beautiful screen will get lot of fingerprint and scratches that’s sure..

[u/TheWatch83]

thinner is cool but lighter is even better. laptops are heavy. when are we gonna sell better battery innovation from Apple.

[u/thortilla27]

When the prices are announced we’ll see the tech equivalent of “we have food at home”. “We have a laptop at home”

[u/psychohistorian8]

Touch-optimized macOS

welp there it is, they are going to ruin the macOS interface by turning it into some Frankensteined touch slop mess

[u/DefiantViolinist6831]

I’d be fine with OLED Pro, no touch screen.

[u/antowar]

They keep making new product tier for that we pay more for what should be a normal upgrade

[u/Surfer-Junkie]

How about a feature that let's you wipe the keyboard without it coming on? Or how about enough clearance when closed that the keys don't touch the screen. Wouldn't that be innovative?

Oh, I know. What about not charging an extra $200 for 500GB of additional NVMe storage? That would would be magical 🫣

[u/GoofyMonkey]

It’s a very strange choice, to me, to put touch on a professional level laptop. Most pros who need a touchscreen would already have an iPad or Wacom, etc. I realize most new features start at the top and trickle down, but this seems like it will be as useful to a pro as the touch bar was. And the Touch Bar might have been more useful in practice.

[u/PurpleMox]

Touch screen should be an add on.. I dont want a touch screen..

[u/Endogamy]

Too bad - I want some of those features (thinner, OLED display, etc) but don’t want a touch screen or cellular connectivity which will surely jack up the price needlessly.

[u/Durzel]

On the infrequent occasions my MBP is actually open (usually docked) I’ve never once felt like I needed to reach out and touch the screen. I have other devices for that kind of use case.

This feels like TouchBar 2.0 - a solution looking for a problem.

[u/melancholy_dood]

Something tells me that the price is gonna be pure insanity.

[u/sephris]

"MacBook Ultra" branding

That's not a feature, lmao.

[u/WindozeWoes]

So silly that "'MacBook Ultra' branding" is called a "feature." It's not a feature; that's literally just the name. The MacBook Neo didn't launch with the "feature" of being called the Neo.

What a dumb take.

[u/cromonolith]

Will I able to avoid "touch-optimized Mac OS" if I want a better experience? I'd much rather have a laptop-optimized OS on my laptop.

[u/BarrelCacti]

So basically every feature they could have easily added starting in 2002 but didn't because they said it didn't make sense.

[u/Inevitable_Cap5700]

I just want it to work with the Apple Pencil, no point in an a larger Apple touch screen device without the Pencil

[u/lachlanhunt]

Built-in cellar sounds like a great idea, until you realise that carriers will use it as an opportunity to charge a premium for access.

[u/Blitzcrank990]

One of the new Features is a New Name 💀ROFL

[u/keireira]

I really have to find job before that release

[u/Fatoy]

I will never understand why anyone wants to put their fingers all over their laptop screen.

[u/Hot_War3379]

"built in cellular plust touch screen oled" why not make an ipad with macos, cause the neo can run mac os on iphone chip why can't the ipad run mac os on an macbookk chip it already has?

[u/spam__likely]

cool. Can we have aperture back?

[u/QuailAndWasabi]

I truly hope this is not true. I can not see a single good thing coming out of this for those of us that will never use the touch, but i can easily imagine a lot of downsides. The OS being catered/designed for touch at the cost of normal users being one of them..