The M6 MacE book Might Lastly Get an OLED Touchdisplay screen

This yr’s MacE book Pro refresh felt extra subdued in comparison with previous years. Apple made much less noise than regular about its new M5 product lineup with a single new 14-inch MacE book Pro mannequin. If the most recent leaks are to be believed, it’s best to in all probability maintain off for a minimum of one other yr. The massive MacE book Pro redesign might grant Mac followers every part they’ve wished since Apple switched to its M-series chips. Yes, that features the long-promised OLED show, a touchscreen, and a brand new design that lastly excises the notch again to the pits of hell from whence it got here.

You can already guess who’s spilling the beans on the subsequent MacE book refresh. Bloomberg’s Apple leaker-in-chief Mark Gurman cited his regular slate of nameless sources when he claimed that the M6 MacE book Pro would arrive someday late in 2026 or early in 2027. The present 14-inch M5 MacE book Pro is being bought alongside an M4 Pro and M4 Max MacE book from final yr. Based on earlier leaks, we count on Apple to save lots of its higher-end M5 chips for early subsequent yr.

While we will already guess M6 could have improved efficiency over M5, the next-gen MacE book might lastly provide an natural light-emitting diode show. This kind of show makes use of self-emissive materials that provides deep “inky” blacks and higher distinction than a typical LCD. Apple calls the OLED shows in its newest iPhones “Super Retina XDR,” although the cream of the crop amongst Apple’s gadget lineup is the tandem OLED—primarily two OLEDs stacked on high of one another for higher brightness—discovered within the M4 iPad Pro and the newly unveiled M5 iPad Pro.

The icing on the cake might be that Apple lastly affords a touchscreen on a MacE book Pro. Gurman prompt that the PC received’t be a convertible—these PCs whose screens can twist 90 levels to behave as a type of pill. Instead, it could be your regular touchscreen laptop computer, full with the same old trackpad. Apple has lengthy resisted placing a contact display screen on Macs, figuring that the iPad had that management model coated. However, now that iPadOS 26 lastly permits for floating home windows for higher multitasking, the traces between pill and MacE book are beginning to blur. Apple’s present CEO, Tim Cook, once compared touchscreens on laptops to converging “a toaster and a refrigerator.” I assume we shouldn’t inform him about that toaster with a touchscreen my colleague James Pero not too long ago reviewed.

Not solely might the display screen feel and look higher, however it could additionally sport options I and different customers have begged Apple to incorporate for years. Current MacE book screens sport a “notch” surrounding the user-facing webcam. The subsequent Mac might push the display screen edge-to-edge and exchange it with one thing akin to the iPhone’s Dynamic Island. This characteristic pops up with notifications and different helpful data relying on the app working within the background, comparable to timers or Uber pickup occasions.

Both the 14- and 16-inch MacBooks might obtain these upgrades, in keeping with Gurman. Apple will seemingly enhance costs of its M6 MacBooks to compensate for the costlier display screen kind. Current MacE book Pros use a mini LED format, which Apple calls Liquid Retina XDR. The present base M5 MacE book Pro with 16GB of RAM and 512GB storage begins at $1,600.

The previous couple of MacE book refreshes have left us with machines that carry out higher yearly, however with none adjustments to their shell, it’s laborious to argue anyone ought to trouble upgrading to the most recent mannequin in the event that they’re nonetheless utilizing an M-series MacE book. Apple could also be saving its M5 Pro and M5 Max chips for early 2026 alongside a brand new M5 MacE book Air. If the corporate continues to be apprehensive a few touchscreen Mac, maybe the corporate ought to have one other go on the wonky Touch Bar on the defunct 13-inch MacE book Pros, as if we would have liked a reminder of why it’s best to by no means try this once more.