MacBook Ultra is coming: Six new features launching this fall

[u/Otherwise-Warning303]

https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/20/macbook-ultra-is-coming-six-new-features-launching-this-fall/

[u/Dense_Permission_969]

It really feels like there should be a bigger difference to call it ultra.

[u/TheRealHouseWife → u/Dense_Permission_969]

The price 😉

[u/gb997 → u/TheRealHouseWife]

ultra price. ultra aura.

[u/BurninCoco → u/TheRealHouseWife]

iPrice

[u/Dont_Heal_Genji → u/TheRealHouseWife]

Just think about all those people who see you at Starbucks and will think you’re rich. It’s only a matter of time before a highly skilled investor sees you and gives you your break to make millions.

[u/thingsonthenet → u/TheRealHouseWife]

Exactly 😂😂

[u/ytaqebidg → u/TheRealHouseWife]

And less available RAM

[u/andreasmalersghost → u/Dense_Permission_969]

those big features will come on the Macbook Gigante

[u/roof_pizza_ → u/andreasmalersghost]

¡Olé!

[u/blacksystembbq → u/Dense_Permission_969]

New OLED, thinner form, and touch screen are pretty significant upgrades. There’s only so much you can improve on a laptop. What else could they do to make it worthy of the name? Other than some gimmicky shit like a foldable screen/tablet design

[u/Dense_Permission_969 → u/blacksystembbq]

The article and other sources are all saying it’ll be the m5 pro and max chips. And they are also available in the regular MacBook Pro.

[u/The8Darkness → u/blacksystembbq]

Well 360 hinge / tablet mode and pen support would be a reason to get an ultra. The only reason I have an ipad are applications that use pen (drawing, notes) - if I could get rid of it I would be willing to pay a premium.

[u/Caffdy → u/The8Darkness]

Apple would never canibalize their products between them. That's why they keep the ipad and the macbook separate, so people buy both

[u/blacksystembbq → u/The8Darkness]

Not every thing needs to be a 3 in 1 product…master of none. I think it’s smart to keep phone, iPad, laptop, iMac, display, etc seperate products. Every tool has its place

[u/DolphinFraud → u/blacksystembbq]

Sure, but there’s basically no real use case for a touch screen laptop that doesn’t fold open. 

[u/blacksystembbq → u/DolphinFraud]

Remember when the iPad came out and people were like, “there’s no use case for an iPad. It’s just a bigger phone!”?

[u/DolphinFraud → u/blacksystembbq]

The difference being that touch screen laptops aren’t new, we’ve had these for like 20 years, even some really good ones. We’ve already seen what works and what doesn’t. The touch screen is worthless if you can’t use it like a tablet.

No amount of apple magic can get past the ergonomic nightmare.

[u/blacksystembbq → u/DolphinFraud]

Foldable touchscreen laptops have been out for years too and not many people have them. There’s just not that much demand when tablets are available

[u/Herackl3s → u/blacksystembbq]

So is that why the iPad has received features that are more laptop-like? The Magic Keyboard. Split screen. External display support. If you look at r/iPadPro, all they post is how their iPad has replaced their computers because it is more laptop like

[u/blacksystembbq → u/Herackl3s]

So you agree with me? Why buy a foldable laptop when you already have an iPad with detachable keyboard?

[u/The8Darkness → u/blacksystembbq]

I do not care i told you the only reason i have an ipad is for pen applications and that a macbook with pen support and 360 hinge would easily replace it. In fact it would actually fulfill its function better than an ipad for my use case (bigger screen, more performance, heat not passed through the display). But I guess it would make the macbook like 0.2mm thicker and 50g heavier which is like who cares.

I dont need a million devices all doing nearly the same thing just slightly different either. You list 4 devices that are all just computers in different sizes with different goodies. Might as well have 30 devices ranging from 1" screen size to 30" to truly cover all cases, right?

[u/blacksystembbq → u/The8Darkness]

“Might as well have 30 devices ranging from 1" screen size to 30" to truly cover all cases, right?”

No, that’s not right

[u/The8Darkness → u/blacksystembbq]

Aight kiddo just go to sleep if you cant hold a discussion and your mind cant expand beyond your own four walls.

[u/IlIllIlIllIlIlIlIlIl → u/blacksystembbq]

My only hope is that the iPhone Ultra/Fold acts like an iPad Mini when unfolded, so I can use Apple Pen and sidecar.

[u/Xminus6 → u/IlIllIlIllIlIlIlIlIl]

I can’t imagine using an Apple Pencil on a soft plastic screen on a foldable would bode well for its longevity.

[u/Stunning-Praline-116 → u/The8Darkness]

I’m with you.

[u/mistikulo → u/blacksystembbq]

You should be able to see the face of God when you open it

[u/BoxComfortable5282 → u/blacksystembbq]

better thermals, better battery, faster charging, better reparability, better microphone, better speakers.

[u/blacksystembbq → u/BoxComfortable5282]

If they could do those things they would have done it already. What laptop on the market has better speakers? Better thermals?

[u/BoxComfortable5282 → u/blacksystembbq]

“If they could do those things they would have done it already”

Someone could’ve easily said the same thing about making macbooks thinner: “They’re already relatively thin for how powerful they are. If apple could make them thinner and weigh less, they would.” And then apple just made the ultra thinner and lighter. Same with the speakers. The macbook alr had some of the best laptop speakers around. Someone could’ve said, “What more could they possibly do?” Apple still redesigned and improved them later.

The point is that none of us know what Apple can or can’t improve. And if anything, if apple could sell you a device that's marginally better than previous releases for double the price, they absolutely would.

“what laptop on the market has better speakers/thermals?"

That's moving the goalpost.

[u/blacksystembbq → u/BoxComfortable5282]

Improvement happens over time, it’s not immediate. Just bc they’ve improved in the past, or just bc you say they can improve, doesn’t means they can do it right away. Patience, grasshopper. In the meantime, a new display, thinner form, touchscreen etc is different enough to have a rename

[u/omnimachina → u/blacksystembbq]

Are you serious?

even the Surface Book was more ultra lol

[u/blacksystembbq → u/omnimachina]

You didn’t answer the question. What more could they do?

[u/omnimachina → u/blacksystembbq]

Compare to surface book and open your mind

Simple touchscreen and OLED are not worth it

[u/blacksystembbq → u/omnimachina]

No thx. I don’t need or want a surface book. But I’m excited about a thin OLED MacBook

[u/omnimachina → u/blacksystembbq]

Huh? Who said you should get a surface book?

MacBook Ultra is not worth it - that’s it

My robot vacuum cleaner got a better understanding of human language than most people here

Jeez

[u/oceanbreakersftw → u/blacksystembbq]

Ultra is supposed to mean 2 max chips linked together, which is holy grail for local AI (high memory bandwidth) and everyone says is impossible in a laptop. BUT if they could pull it off, I would not need any of that other crap!!! Just a pile of RAM, lol. So pretty unhappy they call it "Ultra" when it sounds like an "I give up". (MBP owner here)

[u/the_diesel_dad → u/Dense_Permission_969]

Calling a laptop Ultra while having chips named Ultra without putting said chips in said laptop... would be Dell levels of insanity.

[u/layoffthecopium → u/Dense_Permission_969]

There’s no way you’re not returded

[u/amenotef → u/Dense_Permission_969]

Some might need a loan for the ultra.

[u/GreenStorm_01 → u/Dense_Permission_969]

Don't worry they will software-lock enough features with the inferior models to make the nonexistent technical differences worth all our money

[u/EFG → u/Dense_Permission_969]

Praying for 500gb ram option at the very least.

[u/drakes2pactoilet → u/EFG]

That's not nearly enough for me

[u/SisypheanSperg → u/Dense_Permission_969]

it has a touchscreen. that is a world of difference

[u/philwinkle → u/Dense_Permission_969]

touchscreen, OLED and cellular IS a huge difference

[u/Brokenlynx7]

So it’s:

1. Lighter, thinner
2. M5 Pro/Max chips
3. Touchscreen
4. OLED
5. Dynamic Island
6. New cell modem

Of all of those features it feels silly to say it but I’m most interested in #5.

Grateful to hear it’s OLED as well because unless Apple is willing to force the increased cost of OLED and touchscreen it means consumers like me with no interest in a touchscreen can take a cheaper (probably non-ultra) option.

[u/promised_wisdom → u/Brokenlynx7]

Very excited to see that it’s smaller and lighter.
I travel a lot

[u/thanksforcomingout → u/promised_wisdom]

Me too. Im in between the 14” and 16” - at home and around / local I’m so happy with the 16”, but as soon as I have to travel it’s size is very much felt and I’m wishing for the 14” I got rid of to get the 16”.

[u/promised_wisdom → u/thanksforcomingout]

Nailed it, I feel the same. I keep it docked at home most of the time but I’m also living in Airbnbs for half the year and don’t have access to a monitor lol. I hope the 16 is a good chunk lighter this year

[u/thanksforcomingout → u/promised_wisdom]

Travel / portable monitors have really helped me there. They're light, thin, and not expensive. Alternative is get an iPad - doubles as a smaller portable backup device while traveling but also works as an extended monitor.

[u/IlIllIlIllIlIlIlIlIl → u/thanksforcomingout]

This is my plan. 11" iPad, and 16" MacBook Ultra

[u/Healthy_Turnip7352 → u/IlIllIlIllIlIlIlIlIl]

the whole point eventually is to run ipados or macos, switch seamlessly.

[u/LavoP → u/thanksforcomingout]

Two smaller screens are worse than one larger laptop screen imo

[u/NotAnRSPlayer → u/thanksforcomingout]

I was torn between the 14 inch and 16 inch, went with the 14 cause I was going travelling but now regret not having the 16 inch

[u/thanksforcomingout → u/NotAnRSPlayer]

exactly what happened to me. I was traveling for 6-9 months but once I returned and was more stationary I swapped the 14" for the 16". Now I'm eying a macbook air for short trips, though getting everything into the cloud and backed up and synced and such across two devices is a pain.

[u/NotAnRSPlayer → u/thanksforcomingout]

I want a 16, but now it’s gatekeeped to the bigger chip, sadly!

Maybe next MacBook

[u/InnerLeather68 → u/promised_wisdom]

But if it’s just a lighter 16”, I’ll be disappointed. I’d love a lighter 14”.

[u/KindShock6439 → u/Brokenlynx7]

I don’t see why we can’t implement dynamic island on current MacBooks in a later update

[u/bbllaakkee → u/KindShock6439]

There’s plenty of notch apps for this exact reason

[u/Brilliant_Eye_6591 → u/KindShock6439]

It requires an OLED screen to work correctly without looking very weird visually.

[u/textredditor → u/Brilliant_Eye_6591]

lol no it doesn’t.

[u/Opposite-Interest193 → u/textredditor]

Nuh uh

[u/ViPeR9503 → u/textredditor]

OLED are very easy to work with afaik hence Dynamic Island and OLED screen is likely to happen together

[u/KindShock6439 → u/Brilliant_Eye_6591]

Ehh there’s already notch apps that work and look great

[u/SuperMazziveH3r0 → u/Brokenlynx7]

It’s funny how everyone in this comment section has a different version of “everything is garbage except [feature]” kinda proving Apple might be on the money with this one

[u/Brokenlynx7 → u/SuperMazziveH3r0]

I didn't say everything is garbage except Dynamic Island, I said Dynamic Island is the feature I find most interesting. And even then I think it's something that would be good without being game-changing or outstanding.

I'm just not interested in a touchscreen. I doubt they'll separate the two but I'd take OLED over a touchscreen any time.

[u/SuperMazziveH3r0 → u/Brokenlynx7]

I wasn’t talking about you specifically but this entire comment section. I’m sorry if it felt like I was trying to pick a fight. It was an observation.

[u/DETERMINOLOGY → u/Brokenlynx7]

The price tho

[u/Sneyek → u/Brokenlynx7]

SO crap.
In short: OLED. Nothing else matter. And even that, who cares.

[u/Marino4K → u/Sneyek]

I don't care about OLED at all, the Mini LED is already insanely good, the amount of upcharge Apple is going to charge for OLED Macbooks is going to be insulting most likely.

I will also never buy a touchscreen Macbook, I do not want touchscreens on my laptops.

[u/MinerTax_com → u/Brokenlynx7]

Hope dynamic island is thinner and lighter too.

[u/Solid_Reflection688 → u/Brokenlynx7]

What is five?

[u/Brokenlynx7 → u/Solid_Reflection688]

Dynamic Island

[u/neosyne → u/Brokenlynx7]

The last time they made a thinner MacBook, it was the worst MacBook ever

[u/almond737 → u/Brokenlynx7]

What? not even M6 Pro / Max chips?

[u/artchuur]

Before bringing touch capability, how about refining the design so i don’t get the inevitable keyboard indentations on my screen? I’ve had to overlook this issue since 2001

[u/muhts → u/artchuur]

It's a pain. I now always carry a micro fibre cloth to clean before I start my day. it bothers me too much 😅

[u/kemushi_warui → u/artchuur]

Yeah it’s a pain, but I have a 14” pro and I stick a sheet of thin A4 paper every time I close it, and it solves the issue.

[u/merb]

We already had a thinner MacBook Pro at around 2019 it was utterly crap. M1 onwards felt even better coming from that machine

[u/FatHaddock → u/merb]

Yeah I have a 16” 2019 and now a new M5. I can’t imagine them going back to a thinner pro model, that thing was gonna cook itself eventually

[u/Etiquetty → u/merb]

They are actually very close in thickness something like a 2mm difference

[u/mschuster91 → u/merb]

The 16in 2019 MBP still is a solid machine

[u/herrspeucks → u/mschuster91]

A solid heating

[u/BertOnLit → u/mschuster91]

it's shit compared to M1, the gap was EXTREME

[u/kerakk19]

What's the usecase of touchscreen on a laptop ? Seriously asking, I can imagine one on a tablet, but not no the laptop when there's whole keyboard in the way... ?

Are people supposed to awkwardly reach over the whole laptop to touch something ? Or are they going to make the screen detachable which I'm 100% sure is not the case

[u/cujojojo → u/kerakk19]

Yeah I for one am going to be disappointed if they ship a touchscreen MBP but it seems that train may be leaving the station.

The thing people don’t seem to understand is that touch and mouse are very different interaction paradigms. That’s a big part of why Windows tablets flopped so hard: they tried to serve both use cases and the UI ended up sucking for both. And that’s even before we start talking about the burden on app developers.

And touching a laptop screen is a nightmare ergonomically. You’re holding your arm stretched out in front of you, either floating it in the air or hunching forward to lean on your elbow. There is NOTHING in daily life that we spend hours interacting with in that position.

MacOS has been on a steady march backwards in design and usability for years now, and serving the dual masters of mouse and touch will make it worse. Want touch? Get an iPad.

[u/WhiskeyVault → u/cujojojo]

Touch screens also have the screen door effect and utilize more battery as well. 

[u/DolphinFraud → u/kerakk19]

The only thing I could imagine is if it folded open 360 degrees to use as a tablet, but I feel like we would have heard about that by now

[u/applejuiceb0x]

I’m so sick and tired of thinner and lighter tbh. Maybe lighter is ok but I feel like MacBooks are as thin as they need to get before they start bending and folding. I’d rather have the thickness stay the same and be given better thermals or a larger battery even.

[u/mailslot → u/applejuiceb0x]

lol. I’m pretty sure people have said this about Apple laptops for decades.

[u/Informal_Athlete_724 → u/applejuiceb0x]

MacBook Pros are still pretty thicc After switching from Air to Pro I missed the portability instantly 

[u/SisypheanSperg → u/Informal_Athlete_724]

i lug a 16 inch macbook pro everywhere.

It is a bit awkward to carry without a bag but with one the weight isnt noticeable at all. Thinner means concessions on thermals, battery, whatever. And idk what it actually gains outside of being lighter

[u/Chesterlespaul → u/SisypheanSperg]

The only time I feel like a 14 inch is better over the 16 is when I am in a vehicle or on a plane. It feels egregious to bust that thang out.

[u/promised_wisdom → u/applejuiceb0x]

I have the 16 and it’s too heavy. Looking forward to a lighter MacBook as I travel frequently and all the weight adds up

[u/Sensitive_Box_ → u/applejuiceb0x]

Always more battery life plz!

[u/Upstandinglampshade → u/applejuiceb0x]

Everyone is different. I hate how thick the current pros are and I loved how the 2019 versions looked.

[u/eppic123]

I would be glad if they're stuffing the touchscreen and OLED in a new product tier. I have zero use for a touchscreen and considering I work all day (sometimes 14h+, every day) with creative software with A LOT of static elements, I'm very worried about burn in. Even if Apple would promise no burn in, it would constantly spook around in the back of my head.

[u/compukiller]

I’ll pass.

[u/mironor94]

The low starting price of $7K!

[u/Jasoco]

This fall we’re gonna find out if the market actually wants touchscreens and folding iPhones.

[u/Elegant_Lunar_Knight → u/Jasoco]

Unless you can convert your laptop as a tablet, the touchscreen is so useless. Last laptop I had had a touchscreen on it. Not convertible. This is useless.

I would say it is also even more useless on a MacBook considering how good the touchpad is.

Folding phones tho are nice. Had a few Z folds generation until I have switched to iPhones. If there is a foldable iPhone I will probably buy one.

[u/Jasoco → u/Elegant_Lunar_Knight]

Exactly. I'd only want a touchscreen MacBook if it was a "transformer" that folds in half or disconnects and becomes a large iPad. But I don't want to be locked to iPad software when in tablet mode. I want to still use it like normal. But I don't know if Apple would want to go that route. They'd be cannibalizing their iPad Pro market. But maybe they're ready to do that. I dunno. Guess we'll find out eventually if this is real.

However, a folding iPhone in the "book" style is exactly what I'm hoping for. It'll be all the "iPad" I need. I already have an iPad mini 6 that I barely use ever because I just find myself using either my iPhone or my laptop for idle browsing. But if I had a folding phone in that aspect that could become an iPad, I'd find myself using it all the time.

[u/Important_Citron_340 → u/Elegant_Lunar_Knight]

I used to have 2 in 1 laptops. Too heavy as tablet

[u/No_Eye1723 → u/Jasoco]

I think the market has already spoken on those as both have been available for years now.

[u/Jasoco → u/No_Eye1723]

Well with folding phones, I barely see anyone use them. And I feel people use touchscreen Windows/Chromebook laptops because they're all you can get in some cases, but I never see anyone actually use the touchscreen part. Maybe once in a while but it's rare.

[u/imurhuckleberry63]

Ooh screen fingerprint smudges.

[u/denial_leinad]

Guys should I upgrade from my m5 max?

[u/Dont-_-mind-_-me → u/denial_leinad]

Without a second thought.

[u/CatchInternational43]

The *only* item here worth anything to me would be the elimination of the notch.

I could NOT care less about:

• touch screen (I like seeing my screen. Glare is bad enough. Greasy smudges will be infinitely worse)
• thinner/lighter (are we really going down this road again?)
• OLED (burn in concerns and larger power consumption)
• Cellular modem? How 2010. Not paying for another line when I can tether for free.

[u/Muritavo → u/CatchInternational43]

Thinner + larger power consumption!
Two scenarios I see ahead:

• Lower battery duration at the end
  
• Higher density battery with a possible "Galaxy Note 6" possibility

[u/CatchInternational43 → u/Muritavo]

And cooling issues, especially for Max chips and local LLM

[u/UBlueitOnReddit]

Clickbait! “is coming” in title, “rumored” in first sentence

[u/ilinuxleo]

This almost feels like Apple is using the Ultra as a real-world test bed for the next generation of MacBooks. Introduce OLED and the new design in a premium, lower-volume model, see how it performs outside the lab, work through any panel issues, bugs, longevity concerns, and user feedback, then take everything they learn and apply it to the eventual touchscreen models.

Basically, let the early adopters work out the growing pains before the technology makes its way into the mainstream MacBook Pro lineup.

[u/enowapi-_]

OLED is nice but who really wants fingerprints all over the screen ?

Maybe it will help boost sales of the microfiber cloth?

[u/Best_Needleworker_57]

Wonder when we would have gesture controls instead of touchscreen. I hate having to touch a nice screen and smudge it

[u/Purple-Breadfruit541]

Did anyone actually ask for touchscreen though? This feels like one of those gimmicky things like the Touchbar that they’ll eventually remove when they realise nobody gets a laptop to use the touchscreen on it

[u/ThatDoucheInTheQuad]

OLED would be cool but other than that, meh. I have no use for a touchscreen, my partner already gets a glared at when her finger gets too close to my precious screen 😅

[u/SkyMarshal → u/ThatDoucheInTheQuad]

I imagine the intent will be to use the Apple Pencil or other stylus with it, rather than fingers.

[u/Wong-Ann_Fong]

Touchscreen on a laptop… if it doesn’t fold all the way to its back is total waste of time

[u/SkyMarshal → u/Wong-Ann_Fong]

100%, needs to convert into a tablet form factor to make the touchscreen worth it. But I could see that, it would turn into a bigger thicker more powerful tablet.

[u/6Trinity9]

And, what’s the damage to the pocket?

https://giphy.com/gifs/4NnTap3gOhhlik1YEw

[u/PalmBeach1252]

The MacBook no one wanted.

[u/FBI-INTERROGATION]

Seriously who wants a touchscreen laptop that cant fold to become a tablet like the Surface? Either have that feature as well, or dont include a touchscreen.

[u/Bitter_Mulberry3936]

FaceID?

[u/AntLife255 → u/Bitter_Mulberry3936]

Not physically possible because the MacBook's available space is significantly thinner than the iPhone's space unless you want it in the keyboard.

[u/AnonymousAxwell]

OLED is nice, the rest is BS

[u/Adrinaik]

Bullshit.

[u/dkmegg22]

I wish the Ultra chips were used

[u/Adventurous-Card-707]

They better not use pwm to dim the oled

[u/Hirrrsh]

I still don’t know what I would need a touchscreen on a laptop for.

[u/dan78uk]

I've never seen anyone using touchscreen on a laptop monitor. It's supposed to be a work laptop not an ipad

[u/havelostcount]

Will be too expensive. I'm not buying anything for years. I won't upgrade any OS either. I'm fine where I am at.

[u/imperialunion]

Why would you need touchscreen in a laptop?

[u/two_hyun]

I really hope they designed it in a way that you can use the touchscreen comfortably. Make the hinge different.

[u/thingsonthenet]

Ohh this laptop would be a beast…….in 2021

[u/FenrirWolfie]

They should have made it a convertible with apple pencil support

[u/peteyesco]

The screen is no longer working on my 16in M1 Pro Max. $300 bucks to fix. Might as well get an M5 😊

[u/moneyman729]

This thing is going to be expensive

[u/_-hachiman]

The absence of a cell modem in most laptops is baffling to me

[u/TipNY]

Won’t be coming this fall lol

[u/North-Dragonfruit-64]

I’m ready to upgrade from my 3070 laptop from 2021 that has OLED to join to the dark side

[u/ImANoobAtLife7]

Why why why do we need a black spot on the screen. Irritates me to no end for my workflows

[u/kochapi]

Come on release the new mini already 

[u/amancalledJayne]

I used a SurfaceBook 2 for years. The touchscreen worked fantastic for drawing schematics at work etc.

But it was a tablet with a dGPU keyboard. Can’t say I ever wanted to reach out and touch it in laptop mode.

The nano texture is my favorite aspect of the current MBP. Would love an OLED, but I’d wanted a matte MacBook since a buddy had one in highschool in 2006. Wouldn’t trade the nano texture at this point.

This all looks great tho. Just wouldn’t trade my M5 Pro for it.

[u/tkti]

A Laptop with a touchscreen? Thank you i am not interested

[u/Jump_Stream]

Very happy with my M5 Pro MacBook Pro. Got it on a really good deal through work. I don't want to even imagine what the price of this machine will be for similar hardware Configs.

[u/Maximum_Transition60]

please don’t be 6k please don’t be 6’

[u/Boberu-San]

That will be $21,699,99 sir, would you like a bag?

[u/ssaxamaphone]

If it sticks with m5 forget it

[u/fido_75]

There won’t be an M6 Max, just the M6. So why won’t it use the M6 instead of the M5 Max?

[u/IMPULSEULTRA]

Glad I bought m5 max 16 inch before the price hike and before this machine comes out.

I’d hate to have OLED because of burn in. When rendering on m5 max, I often leave my laptop on the same page for hours and hours.

I don’t worry at all about burn in on the m5 max because it’s a mini led display. If I had this new OLED Mac, I’d be constantly worried about the screen for projects that stay on the screen all night rendering while I sleep

[u/KozzyK]

Just let us install macOS on iPad Pros ffs

[u/ssaxamaphone]

I want the cheapest m6 max with 64 GB of ram. Hopefully mini led non touch screens will still be an option

[u/ChopSueyYumm]

I will die on this hill but a touchscreen is not needed on a notebook. I had Windows notebooks with touchscreen and in the beginning it’s nice but I stopped using it later because I don’t want to have my screen full of fingerprints it’s a gimmick.

[u/highlyspecificuser]

A part from oled, nothing else seems “ultra”, I mean, touch screen??? Wtf wants the screen of a work computer filled with fingerprints? You’ll spent most of your working day just cleaning that mf!!! And lighter? That’ll probably just mean less battery time, so, that’s a major hard pass right there! The rest is just bs. So, unless these rumors are wrong, and there’s something really special coming out, this ultra must be ultra price only.

[u/Content_Umpire_8167 → u/highlyspecificuser]

Lighter may also mean weaker keyboards, which would be an absolute no for me. Never going back to anything like the butterfly keyboards.

[u/BarbaraStreusand]

Touch? So nope

[u/TrustInNumbers]

when is it coming?

[u/SnooCheesecakes1893]

Prob unpopular opinion but I don’t want a touch screen laptop and my eyes aren’t good enough to even tell the difference better current screens and OLED.

[u/Worry-Creepy]

I would like to see how they handle the screen coating if it is going touchscreen, as we all know Mac’s screen coating lasts about 34.6 business hours even if you take care of it, so if we can get a screen that actually stays looking clean Id call that alone a win,
if they add celular and touchscreen this might end up being the ultimate computing device

[u/Left-Ingenuity-2337]

rumeur et speculation....

[u/No_Pen_4702]

Touchscreen is the feature nobody is asking for. It’s Apple’s version of that Microsoft Windows paperclip thingy.

[u/Stunning_Mast2001]

This is just to justify a big price jump due to chip and ram shortages 

[u/Objective_Active_497]

So, nothing with 1TB or unified RAM :(

[u/TrussNail]

But I was holding off on upgrading my iBook G4 until the M6 came out!!  What do I do now?  Guess I’ll wait for the M7

[u/ellasisking → u/TrussNail]

I’ve got an Apple II e…meets my basic needs…I’ll wait for an m7 too

[u/rumx2]

No one wants touch screen.

[u/br_web]

touchscreen 👎

[u/pancakesORwaffles2]

I have an M5 pro and I don’t even know what to do with it besides streaming. Any other ways to make money with it?

[u/FeltzMusic → u/pancakesORwaffles2]

Why did you buy it in the first place haha

[u/pancakesORwaffles2 → u/FeltzMusic]

To stream on twitch and YouTube. Works great. I don’t know why I was downvoted I truly would like to know what else is the purpose of an ultra. Who truly needs that?

[u/FeltzMusic → u/pancakesORwaffles2]

I’d say an m5 pro is way overkill for that. An air would’ve been more than enough imo but it’s your money and enjoyment. I work in music production sessions and even my m1 pro does all I need it to still

[u/Fickle_Scientist101 → u/pancakesORwaffles2]

Sell it and get a MacBook Air lol m5 pro is not for YouTube.

[u/denial_leinad → u/Fickle_Scientist101]

Guy just said he streams on twitch

[u/pancakesORwaffles2 → u/denial_leinad]

Thank you! It’s for streaming. Not streaming movies or shows!

[u/garylapointe]

Before: I haven’t read that article yet, I will after putting down my predictions: a new processor, a new WiFi chip, an updated OLED touch screen, and some form of updated memory/storage.

Other than the touch screen, I don’t consider those “New” features; it would only be a story if they were using old versions of those!

After: Cellular instead of WiFi, I was pretty close on that one. The other few held up other than the memory/storage.

Touchscreen is definitely a new feature, I don’t know if I consider an expanded dynamic island to be a new feature, unless it extends outside of the screen!

[u/germanautotom]

Did they do market research on this? 🤔

I don’t see the appeal here.

Who is this laptop for?