Apple event LIVE: Touchscreen MacBook Pro expected today, iPad mini 8 and iMac M6 announced during 'Pro and Tell'
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You thought HomeView and iPhone Duo were big announcements? Apple may be about to announce a new OLED MacBook Pro with touchscreen — the final day of 'Pro and Tell' is cooking!
There's already been a lot. Apple's dropped three key announcements over the past two days with the iPad mini 8 , iMac M6 and MacBook Pro M6 . But if the leaks are true, the Cupertino crew has saved the best until last.
On this live blog, I'll be combing through every announcement, leak and rumor, as well as sharing what our team on-the-ground at the Apple event in LA are getting up to!
So keep us bookmarked — today is a big day.
Steve Jobs’ take on touchscreen laptops https://t.co/tkXTaDjA3s October 25, 2026
Jason checking in here on what is probably going to be one of the biggest days in the MacBook Pro's 20-year history. It's looking likely that Apple will be releasing an OLED Pro (...Pr-OLED?) with a touchscreen — the biggest paradigm shift in the way you use a MacBook...basically ever!
And the moment this became clear to me, I immediately thought back to what Steve Jobs said on stage about this a while back. Because while in 2026, touchscreen controls on a premium notebook are sort of an assumed feature now, he does have a point.
It'll be interesting to see how Apple changes macOS to adapt to this new control format, and the structural changes to accommodate screen pokes (like a stronger hinge).
So ahead of the (reportedly) imminent MacBook Pro with OLED touchscreen , I stuck the Intricuit Magic screen to my M5 MacBook Pro to see how it fares.
Now, I know that chances are Apple has already thought about this, and will launch a touch-friendly version of macOS with the Pr-OLED.
But I hope it comes with aggressive icon scaling to improve the hitbox on smaller things, actual multitouch gestures like what you see on the trackpad, and some lessons learned from the iPhone Duo snapping apps together easily in splitscreen sesions.
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A lot has happened already! So let me catch you up:
Pre-orders on all these are starting today at 10:10am PT / 1:10pm ET / 5:10pm GMT.