The touchscreen MacBook Pro is a winner
The Verge · David Pierce ·
Apple’s latest high-end MacBook Pro has an OLED display, a lighter and thinner body, and plenty of performance. The touchscreen works well, but you won’t use it much.
I keep forgetting the MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display has a touchscreen. I’ve been testing this new laptop, one of the most impressive Apple has ever created, for the better part of a week. I can’t stop noticing some of its other features: the slimmer design, the improved display, the Dynamic Island that somehow catches my eye more than the notch ever did. But I keep forgetting that as I go about my day, I can now reach out and poke the screen.
Come to think of it, that might be exactly what Apple intended. Steve Jobs said touch laptops were a bad idea; some subset of users demanded one anyway. Now the MacBook Pro has one. But not in a way that meaningfully changes the laptop experience. There have been a few times I have found the touchscreen genuinely useful, better or more intuitive than anything I could do with a trackpad or a mouse. But to call this “the touchscreen MacBook Pro” just doesn’t feel right. It’s the latest evolution of Apple’s most powerful laptop — and oh, it happens to have a touchscreen.
Very little about this laptop, or my experience with it, will come as a surprise. That’s a good thing; the MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display (which I will just be calling the PROLED Pro from now on, because ugh, the name) comes with a bunch of new upgrades but no new problems, and performs as well as you’d expect from a laptop this expensive. Combine the screen, the body, and the touch, and you have something like a new generation of MacBook Pro. It’s going to be a good one.
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