{"id":476151,"date":"2023-01-12T09:36:32","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T07:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=476151"},"modified":"2023-01-12T09:40:43","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T07:40:43","slug":"apple-could-launch-a-touchscreen-macbook-pro-in-2025-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/476151-apple-could-launch-a-touchscreen-macbook-pro-in-2025-report.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple could launch a touchscreen MacBook Pro in 2025 \u2014 Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple could launch a touchscreen MacBook Pro as early as 2025, and the laptops may feature OLED instead of Mini LED displays, according to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-01-11\/apple-working-on-adding-touch-screens-to-macs-in-major-turnabout?sref=ExbtjcSG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bloomberg&#8217;s Mark Gurman<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>While the touchscreen MacBook Pro will likely include other feature updates, Gurman says the overall form factor will remain unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Apple is working on its first Macs with touchscreens in a major reversal,&#8221; Gurman said in a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/markgurman\/status\/1613283005568634892?s=20&amp;t=JulfrD5r_4_swrFfNUUobw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweet<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The company has teams working on a new MacBook Pro with a touchscreen for release in 2025.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, Gurman notes that there are no final plans for Apple to launch a touchscreen MacBook Pro, with the tech giant having often scrapped projects in the past.<\/p>\n<p>The project appears to still be in relatively early stages.<\/p>\n<p>The news that Apple is working on a touchscreen MacBook is controversial. The company has notoriously avoided adding touchscreens to its computers.<\/p>\n<p>The late Steve Jobs criticised the addition of touchscreens to computers in 2010, with the Apple founder saying vertical touchscreens don&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Touch surfaces don&#8217;t want to be vertical,&#8221; he said. &#8220;After an extended period of time, your arm wants to fall off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Cupertino-based tech manufacturer experimented with a Touch Bar for MacBook Pros between 2016 and 2021.<\/p>\n<p>However, Apple removed the bar from the 2021 models of its 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro computers powered by its own M1 processor.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/476045-meta-announces-end-of-support-for-first-quest-headset.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Meta announces end of support for first Quest headset<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is working on touchscreen Macs despite famously avoiding adding such capabilities to its computers in the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":476153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[605,2450,2652,71480,609,22157],"class_list":["post-476151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-apple","tag-macbook","tag-macbook-pro","tag-mark-gurman","tag-steve-jobs","tag-touchscreen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476175,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476151\/revisions\/476175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}