Apple says it is 'only getting started' on macOS touch support
5 Oct 29 1:01 PM · 13d ago · 45 articles · 1 video · 20 posts · 12 comments · 9 sources · development 5 of 7
Apple told 9to5Mac that the initial touch gestures shipped with the new MacBook Pro are an early step, with further macOS touch optimization planned.
“At these prices, it's the end of Apple.”
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first by The Times of India, 13d ago · also WIRED Middle East, Livemint, Engadget, Mashable, The Globe and Mail, Vocal +3
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- Apple’s First Touchscreen MacBook Pro Gets an OLED Display WIRED Middle East · 13d ago
- Apple brings touchscreen to MacBook Pro after years of resistance: What's changed, and why Steve Jobs opposed it Livemint · 13d ago
- Apple's First Touchscreen MacBook Pro Feels Both Familiar And Radically Improved Engadget · 13d ago
- Apples new MacBook Pro has one huge advantage over the old one, and its not the touchscreen Mashable · 13d ago
- Let’s get touchy with Apple’s first touchscreen MacBook Pro Mashable · 13d ago
- Apple Unveils Its First-Ever Touchscreen MacBook Pro. Should Investors Be Concerned About the $2,899 Price Tag? The Globe and Mail · 13d ago
- Apple’s new touchscreen MacBook Pro is available for preorder AL.com · 13d ago
- Apple’s Touchscreen MacBook Pro Is a Test, Not a Reinvention Vocal · 13d ago
- You Can Turn Off the New MacBook Pro's Touchscreen Functionality MacRumors · 13d ago
- Apple’s new touchscreen MacBook Pro costs up to a whopping $15K; fans balk at eye-watering price NY Post · 13d ago
- Apple’s new touchscreen MacBook Pro can cost up to a whopping $15K, infuriating fans New York Post · 13d ago
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first by The Verge, 13d ago · also 9to5Mac
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The AI buildout’s cost to most people=not being able to afford compute(rs).
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ain't no way i am affording one, but it would have been nice to choose if you want a touch panel or not, just like the matt finish.clearly it will be a while before it would be a standard across the lineup (air is still fanless, perhaps to a fault), so allow someone to continue the old way without needing additional complexities with a…
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Apple's touchscreen MacBook Pro is designed for the iPad generation, with an optimized macOS, and the company is right to move on from Steve Jobs' skepticism (Federico Viticci/MacStories) https://www. macstories.net/stories/macbook -pro-with-touch-a-mac-for-the-ipad-generation/ http://www. techmeme.com/261029/p15#a26102 9p15
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When the tablets was about to happen, everyone just wanted laptops with an optional keyboard. Instead, we got giant phones. Now in 2026 Apple finally invents the Microsoft Surface I guess
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Can't believe we can finally touch out MacBook screens. What a time to be alive 😱
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I'm not mad at this. I always felt that the MacBook Pro laptops should have been touchscreen laptops from the start. But that $2,899 price tag - $3,000 with tax - is a doozy. Yikes! 💸 I'm not going to jump on the hype just yet. Let's see how far they can take this touchable screen.
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Even in the demo that's supposed to prove why you should want a touchscreen it just seems... trivial. I don't see any reason why that's better than using a mouse/trackpad.More so the one thing I desperately try to get rid of on my MacBook's screen are smudges. Can't imagine this will make it any better.In the end maybe I'm just completely…
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Steve Jobs on Touchscreen MacBook: “It doesn't work, it's ergonomically terrible”
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So... they’re still selling the old ones, and the same CPU/RAM/SSD combo is $500 more expensive in the touch version than in the old one?I didn’t upgrade before the price hike, and I probably won’t any time soon. Tech prices have gone up across the board, and the worst part is that the same money now buys you a noticeably worse product than it did…
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I've had to use a touch screen laptop for work, before I thought it would be amazing, but then when the display got dirty and due to company privacy and safety rules we weren't allowed to bring anything onto production floor, the only way to clean the display was to switch to paint or something and wipe the display like that, but if you were in a…
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There seem to be two paths for the Mac: integration, aka subject to the iphone, and become less appealing, or being split off into a separate company, and probably going extinct. Not saying that are the only two sensible outcomes, but shareholders and bonus vying execs always want to stir things up, so may choose one of these two easy paths for…
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Windows 8.1 was a great OS. Touchscreen seems to have driven movement toward low-anination, so the start menu opened instantly. Touch forced big-ness on the start menu, so it wasn't so damned cluttered when you opened it up. If you started looking at lists, though, the text was pretty close together and somehow a great font and shape for looking…
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Good move!I often need an alternative interface to the mouse and keyboard. For example, when I want to sketch out an idea. Finding a whiteboard or paper every time isn't easy. So, thanks, Apple. I just hope they'll update the hinge between the monitor and keyboard so I can use it as a tablet. If they do, I'll buy it right away.
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I look forward to being able to plug my iPad into my non-touch MacBook, though, and using its touch screen as an external MacOS-touch enabled peripheral.That’ll hold me over until the next generation of touchscreen MBP’s, or at least until touch is just a normal feature in the Apple world, whichever comes first ..
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When the updates are boring people complain that they don't change anything. When they take risks (touchscreen on laptop, foldable phone) people complain about the new stuff.I like that they do this. If it doesn't catch on, they will change back, like with the touch bar.
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Totally agreed.With the difference that Apple has got a near monopoly on tablets.I don't like touch screens, they are a counter-pattern for a laptop. Yet I don't mind people liking it and using it. But I am in fear that the UI will get impacted also for non-users.
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No M6, really? Anyway, I've never used touch on Windows, never going to is it on macOS either.
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