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The Touchscreen MacBook Pro Is Coming in 2026 — And It’ll Repeat the Touch Bar’s Fate

Initial fascination, occasional utility, eventual irrelevance: why laptop ergonomics doom touch interfaces regardless of implementation quality.

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Novy Baf
Mar 01, 2026
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Source: Apple

Tim Cook recently posted a cryptic video to X. In it, someone’s hand shapes an Apple logo on what appears to be a silver MacBook lid. The video is tactile, manual, suggesting an interaction with touch.

Is Apple finally announcing a touchscreen MacBook after years of insisting touch doesn’t belong on laptops?

Not so fast.

Here’s what’s actually…

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