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Rumoured 2026 Apple laptop, unconfirmed, speculated to introduce an OLED touchscreen and to use M5 Pro and M5 Ultra chips.
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Apple is expected to show an OLED touchscreen Mac within weeks, and the case for the cheaper MacBook Pro surviving beside it rests on a single panel-supply line item, while the prices attached to both tiers are still somebody's guess.
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Mark Gurman's list of 41 devices under John Ternus looks like a three-year plan, but the near-term entries are largely new silicon and Siri promises in enclosures that do not change, which is a smaller planning problem than the number suggests.
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Reports point to a touchscreen OLED "MacBook Ultra" using the M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, with the M6 Pro and M6 Max skipped outright. That changes the refresh math on high-end Macs.
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Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports Apple scrapped the M6 Pro and M6 Max to accelerate M7. The redesigned laptop expected this fall would ship with M5 Pro and M5 Max instead.
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Apple raised prices across most of its hardware in June 2026, citing the memory shortage. Refresh budgets written before that date are now short, and Engadget's read is that waiting will not recover it.
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