Against Steve Jobs' wishes, Apple may be working on a touchscreen MacBook Pro

https://www.neowin.net/news/against-steve-jobs-wishes-apple-may-be-working-on-a-touchscreen-macbook-pro/

by bundie • 10 months ago

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aurareturn• 10 months ago

I've never once wished my Macbook has a touch screen. I think it's a waste of money, technical resources, and maintenance needed to enable touch on macOS.

jki275• 10 months ago

Completely agree, it's a waste to make a laptop screen touchable.

If there is really a touch "screen" requirement, I would put a screen under the trackpad -- that would be more useful for me at least. I think somebody tried that and it pretty much flopped though.

duxup• 10 months ago

I’ve had laptops with touchscreens and without and I never noticed a difference / didn’t use them.

HardwareLust• 10 months ago

Jobs was right, as usual. It's a useless feature nobody wants other than Apple's marketing department.

detaro• 10 months ago

IMHO a macOS-capable iPad Pro would be the more elegant path.

jgrahamc• 10 months ago

It's interesting that some of the commentators here are very, very against touch screens on a laptop. I use a MacBook Pro and a Panasonic Toughbook (https://blog.jgc.org/2025/07/ode-to-anti-mac-panasonic-tough...). The Panasonic has a touch screen and I love being able to touch a window to bring it to the foreground and use my finger instead of the mouse. It works well for "I want the input point to be here".

markx2• 10 months ago

To make a screen that is designed for touch will mean thicker heavier screens which has to impact the width surely?

Or will we see "You are touching it wrong"?

teslabox• 10 months ago

When I was helping my dad with various windows 10 problems, he was constantly touching the screen in exasperation. These touches only created more problems.

I deactivated his touchscreen. He’s never complained about his screen not responding like it used to.

I still see him touching the screens, but it doesn’t respond anymore.

Against Steve Jobs' wishes, Apple may be working on a touchscreen MacBook Pro

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