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The wait to (literally) get your hands on the tech may almost be over. Devindra Hardawar for Engadget 2026 is turning into a big year for Apple hardware news. According to Bloomberg 's Mark Gurman, the company's first touchscreen laptop is expected to debut "on or around" October 27.
So, not a 100-percent solid date for a product announcement, but still a more concrete time frame than we've ever had about Apple's long-awaited touchscreen laptop debut. Rumors about a touchscreen edition of Apple's high-end laptop date back to 2023 . The more recent chatter about this device, largely driven by Gurman's reports, is that it will have a dynamic interface that adapts to the different modes of input.
We're expecting the new touchscreen MacBook, potentially called MacBook Ultra , to run on the same M5 Pro and Max chips as the current high-end MacBook Pro models, as an earlier report suggested there won't be pro-level versions of the new M6 chip . In addition to touchscreen laptops, the anonymous Bloomberg sources said to expect Apple's presentation to include a redesigned iPad Mini with an OLED display, and smaller updates to the entry level 14-inch MacBook Pro and iMac to add the new M6 chip that debuted with the Mac mini refresh . The entry-level MacBook Pro currently runs an M5 chip, while the iMac is stuck on an M4 chip.
And that won't be Apple's only set of reveals this month; it's also slated to introduce a new collection of smart home gadgets on October 13. This packed event schedule follows the summertime debut of Apple's first foldable in the iPhone Duo .
Source: Engadget
