Apple revealed its first touchscreen Mac on October 28th, a new MacBook Pro with a tandem OLED display that the company calls PROLED XDR.
According to a release, the laptop comes in 14- and 16-inch models powered by the M5 Pro and M5 Max chips. Pre-orders opened the same day in 30 countries and regions, and the first units arrive on Friday, November 6th. The 14-inch model with M5 Pro starts at $2,899 and the 16-inch at $3,399, while the M5 Max versions start at $4,499 and $4,799.
Apple CEO Tim Cook marked the launch on X (formerly Twitter). "We brought Touch to the Mac!" Cook wrote, adding that creators "have new tools to do their best work yet."
A touchscreen and a two-layer OLED panel
The touch sensor sits inside the display panel rather than on top of it, which Apple said cuts latency. Users can swipe to scroll, pinch to zoom and double-tap a window to fill the screen, and a redesigned hinge is meant to keep the screen steady while it is being touched. Existing apps work with touch straight away because macOS turns taps into clicks. Apple named Blender, DaVinci Resolve, Adobe Lightroom and Microsoft Word among the third-party apps adding touch support later this year.
The PROLED XDR panel uses two layers of self-lit pixels. Apple listed peak brightness of 2,000 nits in both HDR and SDR, a 10,000,000:1 contrast ratio, a refresh rate of up to 120Hz and coverage of both the P3 and Adobe RGB colour spaces. The Dynamic Island from the iPhone also makes the jump to the Mac, where it holds Spotlight search, Live Activities and Siri AI.
Chips, battery and weight
The M5 Pro and M5 Max can be paired with up to 128GB of unified memory and up to 16TB of storage. Each GPU core has its own Neural Accelerator for AI tasks, and Apple said its Dynamic Caching feature brings large performance gains in Blender, Unreal Engine and AAA games. Battery life is rated at up to 24 hours.
The 14-inch model weighs 3 pounds, half a pound lighter than before, and the 16-inch weighs 4 pounds. Both ship with macOS 27, three Thunderbolt 5 ports, HDMI, an SD card slot and a 12MP Center Stage camera.
The launch follows the new iPad mini Apple revealed on October 26th, which moved to an 8.5-inch OLED display and the A20 Pro chip. In his post, Cook also pointed to a new 14-inch MacBook Pro and iMac as part of the same set of releases.
