MacBook Pro With PROLED XDR Is Official: Touch Comes to the Mac

Apple's new MacBook Pro brings a tandem OLED PROLED XDR display, Touch on Mac for the first time, M5 Pro and M5 Max. Confirmed specs and pricing.

By Greg Toope · October 26, 2026

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What Apple announced today

Apple has officially unveiled the MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display, available in 14-inch and 16-inch models. This is the first MacBook Pro with tandem OLED and the first Mac that responds to touch. It ships with M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, and it is available to pre-order today, October 28, with availability beginning Friday, November 6. The 14-inch model starts at 2,899 USD, which is a substantial jump over the outgoing MacBook Pro, and Canadian pricing should be confirmed on apple.com/ca before you order.

PROLED XDR: the display, in numbers

Apple calls this the world's best laptop display, and the specifications explain why they are confident. Tandem OLED with two self-illuminating pixel layers delivers up to 2,000 nits peak brightness in both HDR and SDR, an industry-leading 10,000,000:1 contrast ratio, and a 120Hz ProMotion variable refresh rate ranging from 10Hz to 120Hz. Color support now covers both P3 and Adobe RGB in a single default preset, with more than 80 percent Rec. 2020 coverage for HDR grading. A nano-texture option, now etched directly into the cover glass, reduces glare without the softness that film-based finishes introduced.

Touch, done properly

This is not a touch layer added on top of a normal display. Apple built the touch sensor directly into the display panel, which cuts latency so the feedback feels like touching the content itself. You can swipe to scroll a page, pinch to zoom a photo, drag slides between presentations, and double-tap a window to fill the screen. The pro use cases Apple demonstrated are more interesting than the gestures: using the whole display as a canvas for design work rather than being limited by the trackpad, playing software instruments onscreen, and testing iOS and iPadOS app touch behaviour directly on the Mac. A redesigned hinge keeps the screen stable while you tap, and video stabilization smooths your camera feed in real time when you use touch during a video call.

Dynamic Island comes to the Mac

The notch is gone, replaced by the Dynamic Island, which now hosts Spotlight, Live Activities and Siri AI. That is a meaningful shift in how macOS surfaces information: instead of a static menu bar indicator or a floating window, Siri AI and Live Activities live in a persistent, contextual spot at the top of the screen. Combined with macOS 27, this is the clearest sign yet of how Apple expects people to interact with Siri on the Mac going forward.

Performance, battery and the rest of the hardware

Both models use M5 Pro and M5 Max, Apple's most powerful laptop chips, with up to 128GB of unified memory and up to 16TB of storage. Battery life reaches up to 24 hours, in a chassis Apple describes as thinner and much lighter at 3 pounds for the 14-inch and 4 pounds for the 16-inch. An enhanced six-speaker system delivers 50 percent deeper bass. Connectivity includes Thunderbolt 5, plus a 12MP Center Stage camera and studio-quality microphones. One detail that will divide people: the lid now carries a glowing Apple logo.

Which rumors were right

Nearly all of them, which is unusual. The OLED display, the touchscreen, the reinforced hinge, the Dynamic Island, the lighter chassis, and the decision to keep M5 Pro and M5 Max rather than wait for M6 Pro were all reported in advance and all landed. The one detail nobody predicted was the name: PROLED XDR, not OLED, and the glowing Apple logo. Our rumor piece published earlier today called every major feature correctly, which is a rare outcome in Apple forecasting and a sign of how solid the supply-chain reporting had become.

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