Let’s go to the Apple 15 years ago. In 2010in a Keynote focused on computers Mac, Steve Jobsco -founder of the company and then CEO, said His rejection of the idea of a MacBook equipped with a touch screen. He described it ‘Ergonomically terrible’said Apple had done ‘Montones of user tests’ and that a vertical tactile surface ‘not working’ Because, after a while of use, ‘The arm gets tired’. In 2025, however, it seems that in Apple they see it differently and are willing to ignore Jobs’s position.
According to a post in X of the supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuothe first Mac with touch screen will be a MacBook Pro Oledwhose mass production would begin at the end of 2026. These laptops will use on-Cell Touch technology, the same type of screen that uses such as Samsung in their smartphones Galaxy.
MacBook Models Will Feature A Touch Panel For The First Time, Further Blurring The Line With The Ipad. This Shift Appears to Reflect Apple’s Long-Term Observation of ipad user behavior, Indicating That in Certain Scenarios, Touch Controls Can Enhance Both Productivity and The …
-郭明錤 (ming-chi kuo) (@Mmingchikuo) SEPTEMBER 17, 2025
Kuo adds that the rumored Macbook more affordable, with processor iPhone and planned by the end of 2025, it will not include touch panel. The second generation of that model, anticipated by 2027, could incorporate it. The analyst believes that Apple is taking this step after observing how iPad users work, concluding that the touch entry can Increase productivity.
It is not the first time that there is talk of a Mac with a touch screen in recent years. In 2023, Mark GurmanBloomberg already reported a similar plan, ensuring that Apple engineers were ‘Active involved in the project’.
The iPad and the macbook, getting closer and closer
In recent times, Apple has shortened the distance that separates the iPad from its MacBook, both in hardware and software. The biggest jump occurred in 2021when the first processor in the series M He reached iPad Pro After having debuted in the company’s computers the previous year. In addition, Apple already allowed you to use a single mouse and keyboard to control a Mac and an iPad at the same time, dragging files fluently between both devices.
The software has followed the same path. With Ipados 16 It was introduced Stage Manager For window management more similar to that of a PC desktop.
More recently, the company has launched a new design language called Liquid Glass that seems thought for touch. It is appreciated in the largest window controls and in the most rounded corners of the entire system. There is also a more generous spacing in the elements of the interface, which converts the buttons into easier to press.
And the newly released Ipados 26 even more shorten the distance with a complete window system than Includes the classic red, yellow and green buttons (to close, minimize and enlarge a window), in addition to A traditional menus bar. No one can say that there are no signs.