It’d be a bit of a waste to develop the first touchscreen MacBook and not include one of the Fruit Company’s better ideas from the past decade: the Dynamic Island. The interactive little black pill that disguises your iPhone’s selfie camera first turned up in the iPhone 14 Pro lineup, and the company hasn’t looked back ever since.
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reckons that Apple’s incoming MacBooks are due a pretty big upgrade: OLED. Specifically, the company’s 14- and 16in MacBook Pros will be the first to see such an upgrade, with their own little Dynamic Island embedded at the top of the new display. It proved particularly handy on the company’s 6.7in iPhone display, so we imagine that extra real estate could well be a serious boon for Mac power-users.
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Apple won’t bill the new MacBook as an iPad replacement, instead positioning the add-on as exactly that: an add-on. Apple hasn’t put the touch display first, inviting users to interact with their MacBook however they wish. This is still a MacBook Pro by all accounts, repping a full keyboard and a large trackpad. But for the folks who want the most out of their investment, a more capable UI built with touch controls in mind will also debut here.
“The software will also display the most appropriate set of controls based on users’ prior interaction. And if a person taps an item in the menu bar at the top of the screen, the set of controls will enlarge to be more easily selectable with a finger,” Gurman wrote.
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On-screen typing is one of the few touch features Apple hasn’t catered for here. That makes sense — it’d be an ergonomic nightmare from any way you look at it. As for the Dynamic Island, Gurman expects it to be smaller than the current iteration found in the Fruit Company’s iPhones, claiming that one of the reasons Apple put so much stock in Liquid Glass was to “prepare for this year’s push into touch.”
It’ll be some time before we get to see Apple’s creation in the flesh (aluminium?). Unfortunately, the company has no grand plans to drop the touchscreen MacBook Pro amongst the reveals slated for (or around) 4 March 2026, and will instead debut its new OLED-toting hardware “closer to the end of 2026.” We’ll be there.
