Apple has long resisted the idea of touchscreen laptops — until now.
Apple has long resisted the idea of touchscreen laptops — until now.
by Jay Peters
Oct 28, 2026, 5:05 PM UTC
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Jay Peters
is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme.
Apple announced an all-new MacBook Pro laptop with a touchscreen at its “Pro and tell” event on Wednesday.
Until now, Apple has long resisted the idea of a touchscreen laptop. On a 2012 earnings call, former CEO Tim Cook, responding to a question about why he doesn’t think the tablet and laptop will converge, said, “You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but those things are probably not going to be pleasing to the user.” In 2010, Steve Jobs called touchscreen laptops “ergonomically terrible.” Apple tried replacing the function keys with the Touch Bar on MacBook Pros starting in 2016, but it went back to physical function keys with the 2021 MacBook Pro redesign and fully dropped the Touch Bar in 2023.
The new laptop follows what’s been a busy week of Apple announcements, including an iPad Mini with an OLED display and iMacs and MacBook Pros with the M6 chip.
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