Apple considering 2025 debut of touchscreen MacBook Pro

It's much needed, people keep touching the displays nowadays.

netrox said:

It's much needed, people keep touching the displays nowadays.

Definitely needed. Switching from a tablet to a laptop often gets moving my finger towards the screen. 

It would be a nice addition to functionality.

I'd prefer 3:2 aspect ratio too. 

Definitely not needed as it’s a gimmick feature. Had them on work Windows machines and they were an oft forgotten about annoyance. Reaching up to the touch the screen when your hands are on the keyboard is baaad, m’kay?

JP234 said:

I don't know why a laptop with a full sized keyboard and a touch sensitive trackpad would benefit from a touchscreen. The screens on my iPhone, iPad and car all get gross after one day of use. The MacBook Air stays clean, and only needs dusting every week or two.

Correct, users can perform any touch task with their massive touchpad and without having to move their entire arm to the screen. I wouldn't be surprised if the leak Bloomberg received is for a new type of device. 2025 sounds too long-term for simply adding a touch display into an OS that already knows touch.

JP234 said:

I don't know why a laptop with a full sized keyboard and a touch sensitive trackpad would benefit from a touchscreen. The screens on my iPhone, iPad and car all get gross after one day of use. The MacBook Air stays clean, and only needs dusting every week or two.

It doesn’t at the end of a long… working day reaching up to a laptop screen, or a desktop screen doesn’t work too well but it does on iPhones and iPads. They were designed to work that way from the get-go don’t complicate things Apple.

Windows, using the touchscreen, ribbons, dos prompts, is a mismatch of UI elements. Hopefully Apple won’t go down that road, concentrate on getting Stage Manager to work better than what it is right now.