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The touchscreen MacBook Apple said it wouldn't make | The Vergecast

The Verge · 2026-10-29 · 37 min

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Apple’s touchscreen MacBook Pro adds OLED and lighter hardware, while The Vergecast debates whether touch earns a place beyond occasional tasks.

The Vergecast’s David Pierce and laptop reviewer Antonio Di Benedetto examine Apple’s new touchscreen MacBook Pro with Pro Display XDR, contrasting it with Steve Jobs’s dismissal of touchscreen laptops. Di Benedetto says the roughly half-pound weight reduction on the 14-inch model and OLED screen matter more in everyday use; touch is a convenient extra for tasks like zooming photos, tapping music controls, or scrubbing video timelines. macOS largely retains trackpad gestures, with small touch-friendly changes such as enlarged window controls, while DaVinci Resolve expands color tools under a finger. They discuss missing Apple Pencil support, the iPad’s role, and how adding touch across MacBook models could affect pricing and an already complicated lineup. In the closing segment, Pierce tests Pebble’s $75 Index 01 smart ring, which records only when its button is pressed and can send dictated reminders to Apple Reminders or notes to Capacities.

Chapters

  1. 0:0090 Seconds on The Verge: DoorDash’s $17 Billion Instacart Deal and Samsung’s RAM Warning
  2. 1:53Apple’s New Touchscreen MacBook: The MacBook Pro with Pro Display XDR
  3. 2:56Do You Touch Your Computer? Antonio Uses Touch Occasionally, While the MacBook’s Lighter Build Matters More
  4. 6:10Apple Event Impressions: A Rushed LA Showcase Framed Touch as an Occasional Tool
  5. 11:39Apple Pencil and Laptop Form Factors: Ternus Points to iPad as MacBook Air and Neo Wait
  6. 14:24macOS Touch Changes: Enlarged Window Controls and Trackpad Gestures, but Clumsy Tiling
  7. 18:46Touch Optimized Apps: DaVinci Resolve Controls, iPhone Mirroring, and Occasional Lightroom Use
  8. 26:31How Does This Change the MacBook Lineup?: $100–$200 Touch Premiums and Confusing M5 Models
  9. 31:50One More Thing: David Pierce’s Pebble Index 01 Voice-Recording Ring

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Preview of the first chapter · 90 Seconds on The Verge: DoorDash’s $17 Billion Instacart Deal and Samsung’s RAM Warning

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  • •The companies will keep their brands separate0:30
  • •Google search queries reached a five-year growth high1:09

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