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The Verge November 5, 2026 positive

The touchscreen MacBook Pro is a winner

AppleAI / LLMSupply Chain
<figure> <img alt="A person reaches out to touch a laptop screen." data-caption="You can look, and you can touch. (Note: all the photos in this review are of the 16-inch PROLED Pro.) | Photo: Owen Grove / The Verge" data-portal-copyright="Photo: Owen Grove / The Verge" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/11/MON09105-edit.jpeg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> You can look, and you can touch. (Note: all the photos in this review are of the 16-inch PROLED Pro.) | Photo: Owen Grove / The Verge </figcaption> </figure> <p class="has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph">I keep forgetting the <a href="https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/proled-xdr-display/">MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display</a> has a touchscreen. I've been testing this new laptop, one of the most impressive Apple has ever created, for the better part of a week. I can't <em>stop</em> noticing some of its other features: the slimmer design, the improved display, the Dynamic Island that somehow catches my eye more than the notch ever did. But I keep forgetting that as I go about my day, I can now reach out and poke the screen.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Come to think of it, that might be exactly what Apple intended. Steve Jobs said touch laptops were a bad idea; some subset of users demanded one anyway. Now the MacBook Pro has one. But not in a …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/1026570/apple-macbook-pro-proled-xdr-display-review">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>
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