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Apple May Provide Touchscreen MacBook Soon

Apple is developing touch panels for its Mac computers, breaking with long-standing business tradition and adopting a design philosophy that co-founder Steve Jobs once dubbed "ergonomically horrible

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Kapish Khajuria
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Apple is developing touch panels for its Mac computers, breaking with long-standing business tradition and adopting a design philosophy that co-founder Steve Jobs once dubbed "ergonomically horrible."

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The development of the touchscreen MacBook is presently in its infancy, and Bloomberg's Mark Gurman anticipates that the speculated OLED MacBook will be among the first Macs to ship with touch screen capabilities.

The laptop will have touchscreen capabilities in addition to the basic design of the MacBook. According to the people, who asked not to be identified because the plans are private, the company could launch its first touch-screen Mac in 2025 as part of a larger update to the MacBook Pro.

Additionally, touchscreen laptop prototypes have been the subject of internal Apple experiments in the past.

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Those prototypes were considered a "compromise" because the touchscreen didn't make sense in a laptop form factor that already had precise multi-touch trackpad and keyboard inputs, said Craig Federighi in an interview in 2016.

The iPad Air and iPad Pro models are equipped with Apple's ARM-based M1 (and M2, with the most recent iPad Pro models) system on a chip, in addition to a variety of keyboard add-ons such the Logitech Combo Touch and the Magic Keyboard.

In the market and within Apple's ecosystem, a touch-screen Mac would occupy an intriguing space. Apple has been gradually transforming the iPad into a "laptop lite" device, despite the fact that touch screens on computers running the Windows OS have been available for years.

Dell Technologies Inc., HP Inc., Microsoft, Lenovo Group Ltd., Samsung Electronics Co., and Acer Inc., as well as Apple's rivals in the laptop market, have pushed ahead with touch screens. Among the major computer manufacturers, Apple is currently the only one that does not offer such a product.

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