Apple's redesigned MacBook Pro has an OLED touchscreen, weighs just three pounds

Apple unveiled a revamped MacBook Pro with an OLED touchscreen, marking its most luxurious laptop yet. Priced at $2,899 for the 14-inch model and $3,399 for the 16-inch version, the sleek design boasts thinner dimensions, slimmer bezels, and a touchscreen interface. The 14-inch MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR, as it's officially known, is powered by M5 Pro or M5 Max chips, while the 16-inch variant features M5 Max chips.

A standout feature is its Dynamic Island around the camera, and Apple claims the 14-inch model weighs just three pounds, a significant improvement from the current 3.4 pounds. The 16-inch model weighs four pounds. The ProLED XDR screen reaches peak brightness of 2,000 nits and boasts a 10,000,000:1 contrast ratio. Its 120Hz refresh rate mirrors that of existing MacBook Pros.

Despite retaining familiar ports like Thunderbolt 5 USB-C, MagSafe, HDMI, an audio jack, and an SDXC card slot, the OLED MacBook Pro introduces a touchscreen, making scrolling through content and interacting with 3D objects more intuitive. The touchscreen also enables interaction with iOS apps as if on a phone, a feature primarily beneficial to developers.

While Apple is tardy in introducing this touchscreen laptop, the company's approach of separating touchscreen platforms from macOS, which was designed for traditional inputs, appears justified. Even though the MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR is expensive, the 16-inch model with an M5 Max chip, 128GB of RAM, and 16TB of storage costs $14,549, targeting a niche market of power users seeking robust local AI hardware capabilities.