Against Steve Jobs' wishes, Apple may be working on a touchscreen MacBook Pro

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aurareturn · 2h ago

I've never once wished my Macbook has a touch screen. I think it's a waste of money, technical resources, and maintenance needed to enable touch on macOS.

jgrahamc · 1h ago

It's interesting that some of the commentators here are very, very against touch screens on a laptop. I use a MacBook Pro and a Panasonic Toughbook (https://blog.jgc.org/2025/07/ode-to-anti-mac-panasonic-tough...). The Panasonic has a touch screen and I love being able to touch a window to bring it to the foreground and use my finger instead of the mouse. It works well for "I want the input point to be here".

markx2 · 1h ago

To make a screen that is designed for touch will mean thicker heavier screens which has to impact the width surely?

Or will we see "You are touching it wrong"?

HardwareLust · 2h ago

Jobs was right, as usual. It's a useless feature nobody wants other than Apple's marketing department.

duxup · 2h ago

I’ve had laptops with touchscreens and without and I never noticed a difference / didn’t use them.

detaro · 2h ago

IMHO a macOS-capable iPad Pro would be the more elegant path.

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Against Steve Jobs' wishes, Apple may be working on a touchscreen MacBook Pro

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