Apple on Oct. 28 introduced a MacBook Pro with an on-screen touch display and a tandem OLED panel it calls PROLED XDR^4,6,7. Wired described the product as a reversal of Apple's prior public position against touchscreen Macs³.

The machines use M5 Pro or M5 Max chips in 14- and 16-inch sizes, with preorders listed for availability starting Nov. 6^4,6,7,11.

Apple’s product page lists up to 2,000 nits peak HDR and SDR brightness, a 10,000,000:1 contrast ratio, ProMotion from 10 to 120 Hz, and up to 24 hours of battery life⁷.

TechCrunch and The Verge reported a U.S. starting price of $2,899^2,6. A fully configured 16-inch unit can reach $14,549, The Verge said, largely because a 16TB storage option adds $7,000^8,9.

The touchscreen MacBook Pro is a different product from the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 that Apple announced a day earlier, which keeps a Liquid Retina XDR display and is not the OLED touch model^4,12.

Apple says the touch sensor is built into the OLED panel rather than stacked on top, and that Multi-Touch gestures include scroll, pinch, rotate and drawing⁷. TechCrunch reported a hinge designed to keep the lid and camera steadier when a user presses the screen⁶.

Apple's product page lists Dynamic Island on this model as a place for Spotlight, Live Activities and Siri AI⁷.

Ars Technica said the OLED panel is the main hardware change versus recent MacBook Pro designs and that Apple referred to burn-in protection without explaining the method⁵.

Engadget described a lighter chassis, about three pounds, and continued live and recap coverage after the event^1,2. IOL said South African buyers should expect roughly R60,000 for a 14-inch configuration¹⁰.

Wired framed the launch as the end of a years-long internal argument over whether Macs should be touched like iPads³. Independent reviews of day-to-day macOS touch behavior and long-term OLED wear were still limited in the sources reviewed here^3,5.