#Apple laptop with touch screen software#
"We haven't really felt a reason to change that," he said.Īpple software engineering chief Craig Federighi in 2020 said that Apple believed Mac ergonomics require the hands to be rested on a surface, claiming that "lifting your arm up to poke a screen" is "fatiguing." Touchscreen laptops from other companies were also not compelling to Apple. In 2021, for example, Apple hardware engineering chief John Ternus said that the best touch computer is an iPad, with the Mac "totally optimized for indirect input" rather than touch. Touchscreen Mac HistoryĪpple executives have said many times over the years that Apple does not have plans to release a touchscreen Mac. iPhone and iPad apps are already able to run on Macs with Apple silicon chips, unless a developer opts out of the cross platform functionality. Apple is not looking to combine iPadOS and macOS at this time, though the lines have blurred between the operating systems with the launch of Apple silicon Macs. Gurman says that the first touchscreen Macs are likely to use macOS, the operating system that runs on the Mac. While a standard notebook design will continue to be used, the machine will feature a display that supports touch input like an iPhone or an iPad.
The first touchscreen Mac is expected to continue to feature a traditional laptop design, complete with a trackpad and a keyboard. Possible ModelsĪccording to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple engineers are "actively engaged" in the development of a Mac with a touchscreen, and one of the first Macs with a touchscreen could be an OLED version of the MacBook Pro. This guide highlights everything that we know so far about Apple's work on a touchscreen Mac.
Apple is rumored to be working on touchscreen Mac technology, and we could see the first touchscreen Mac in just a couple of years. Some Apple fans have long wanted Apple to combine the functionality of the iPad with the Mac, and it appears that it's finally going to happen.
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