TrendForce expects Apple to ship up to 1.5 million OLED touchscreen MacBook Pros in 2027 as premium pricing and Samsung Display's supply role shape adoption.
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Apple confirms iOS 27.3 for December, with a developer beta planned for November. Here's what to know about new features, Apple Intelligence, and availability.
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Apple's rumored $1,000 tabletop robot could launch in 2027 with a swiveling display and Siri AI, but software delays may push its release into 2028.
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UGREEN vend depuis quelques semaines un chargeur un peu particulier, le Nexode Pro 160W , dont l'argument principal n'est pas la puissance (pourtant bien là) mais le câble USB-C rétractable intégré au boîtier, un enrouleur qui se déroule sur 70 cm avec huit crans d'arrêt et qui revient se loger dans le bloc tout aussi simplement.
L'idée est toute bête. Le câble est donc en permanence dans le chargeur, donc plus rien à transporter ni à oublier.
Ce câble délivre jusqu'à 140 W, tout comme le premier port USB-C du bloc, alors que le deuxième s'arrête à 100 W et que l'USB-A de service dépasse à peine les 20 W, le tout dans la limite des 160 W que le chargeur répartit de lui-même entre les prises occupées quand vous branchez plusieurs appareils.
La densité de l'appareil, comme toujours désormais, vient du nitrure de gallium, ce semi-conducteur qui a remplacé le silicium dans les chargeurs puissants de ces dernières années et qui permet de caser tout ça, écran compris, dans un format tour d'un peu plus de 300 grammes.
Parce qu'il y a un écran, oui. La petite dalle couleur de la face avant affiche en continu la puissance, la tension et la température de chaque port, de quoi voir d'un coup d'oeil si l'iPhone tire bien ses watts ou si un vieux câble bride la charge, et l'application Ugreen Connect ajoute le suivi à distance en Bluetooth ou en Wi-Fi, la coupure d'un port et la mise à jour du logiciel interne. Pour le coup ça n'est pas indispensable, mais on va dire que ça fait partie du jeu en 2026.
Je n'ai relevé aucune surchauffe avec quatre appareils branchés, et mon MacBook Pro 14 pouces récupère plus de la moitié de sa batterie en à peu près 20-25 minutes minutes sur le câble intégré.
Pour le tarif, UGREEN demandait 130 euros au lancement et affiche une centaine d'euros en ce moment. C'est cher, mais pas tant que ça si on considère la puissance et le servie rendu. Si vos journées se partagent entre un Mac, un iPhone et une tablette, je ne vois pas de chargeur de bureau mieux pensé en ce moment. Il est disponible par ici sur Amazon .
Apple has finally made a touchscreen MacBook Pro, and you know what? Good.
I’ve been using touchscreen Windows laptops for well over a decade. Microsoft made touch central to Windows with Windows 8 in 2012, and PC makers have spent the years since experimenting with convertibles, detachable keyboards, pens, dual-screen PCs, foldable displays, and nearly every combination of those ideas imaginable.
Now Apple has decided touch belongs on a Mac, too.
There’s an obvious temptation here to point and laugh, particularly given how long Apple spent telling everyone that touchscreen laptops were a bad idea. But I don’t think Apple adopting touch in 2026 is really the problem. Technology improves. Consumer behavior changes. Companies reconsider old assumptions. Ideas that didn't make sense 15 years ago can make considerably more sense today.
Companies should be allowed to change their minds. In fact, I wish more of them would.
What bothers me is the corporate absolutism that so often comes before the reversal, and how readily consumers absorb those talking points and repeat them as though they were established technological truths.
Steve Jobs didn't merely say that Apple wasn't interested in making a touchscreen Mac. In 2010, he argued that vertical touch surfaces were “ergonomically terrible” and that after using one for an extended period, “your arm wants to fall off.”
Apple continued defending that philosophy long after Jobs. Craig Federighi argued that reaching up to touch a screen was fatiguing, while John Ternus explained Apple's position in 2021 by saying the iPad was optimized for touch and the Mac for indirect input.
And now we have a touchscreen MacBook Pro.
Apparently, our arms have recovered.
I mean, Windows 10 came out 11 years ago and abandoned the Windows 8 approach you're criticizing.More importantly, what exactly is Apple doing here that Windows 10/11 haven't already done conceptually?The article praises Apple for keeping the familiar desktop UI while making elements more touch-friendly, adding touch gestures, increasing spacing between controls, and supporting things like pinch-to-zoom.That's essentially the post-Windows 8 approach Microsoft has been using for years: keep the desktop, accommodate touch where useful, and dynamically adjust parts of the UI for touch input.Windows 8 deserves plenty of criticism, but using it as the comparison in 2026 sidesteps 11 years of Windows development.If there's something fundamentally new about Apple's approach here, I'm genuinely curious what it is.October 28, 2026
But there was never anything inherently ridiculous about occasionally touching your laptop screen! You don't use a touchscreen PC by spending eight hours with your arm suspended in front of you like you're directing traffic. You type. You use the touchpad. You use a mouse. And sometimes a button is sitting right there on the screen, so you reach up and tap it.
That's it. Nobody needed a grand philosophical argument for why that was useful.
Microsoft certainly got plenty wrong with Windows 8, especially its attempt to aggressively redesign a desktop operating system around touch. But the underlying idea that a computer could accommodate a keyboard, mouse, pen and your fingers was perfectly reasonable. Windows laptop makers proved that years ago.
Yet because Apple didn't want to make that computer, the company's decision somehow became evidence among some of its most devoted followers that these computers shouldn't exist at all.
That's the part I think is worth remembering.
And touch isn't an isolated example.
When Microsoft was trying to blur the line between tablets and PCs with Surface, Tim Cook famously compared converging products to combining a toaster and a refrigerator. Years later, Apple built the iPad Pro and paired it with increasingly sophisticated keyboard and trackpad accessories. The implementation is Apple's own, but the supposedly absurd idea of a tablet increasingly behaving like a laptop doesn't seem quite so absurd anymore.
I've seen the same attitude around foldables and devices like Surface Duo. Years ago, I found myself explaining to Apple fans, practically like children, why someone might find value in a large display that folds into something much smaller and more pocketable. The response inevitably centered on all the reasons folding phones were unnecessary, compromised, gimmicky, or "solving a problem that didn't exist" (the line always used by people with no imagination).
Now Apple is making foldable devices too.
And again, good. I want Apple to make these products. Competition drives improvement, and Apple entering a category can push everyone else forward. I recently discussed on Schwab Network (above) how strategically important the iPhone Duo is, and its growing pains—or whether it’s the perfect $2,000 phone—are less of a concern in the long term.
This isn't an admonishment of Apple for adopting ideas that competitors got to first. It's an admonishment of the corporate theater that often precedes those reversals, and especially of consumers who willingly participate in it.
Every technology company does some version of this. Microsoft does it. Google does it. Samsung does it. Apple does it.
I've interviewed enough executives over the years to know the standard response when you ask why a product doesn't have some particular piece of technology. You usually get something along the lines of: We're watching the technology, we're talking to our customers, and when we think the experience is right, we'll consider it.
That's corporate PR, but it's also a perfectly respectable answer.
What companies shouldn't do, and what consumers absolutely shouldn't help them do, is transform today's product limitation into some grand design philosophy explaining why the missing technology is actually stupid.
(Anyone else remember Apple not making large iPhones because your thumb couldn't reach across the screen? yeaaahh...)
Companies have roadmaps. They have price targets, manufacturing constraints, engineering limitations, internal politics, and products they aren't ready to announce. Sometimes they haven't figured something out yet. Sometimes a competitor simply got there first.
And sometimes they're just wrong. Steve Jobs, Tim Cook, and Craig Federighi were wrong. And it wasn't the tech that changed; it was the opinion.
Consumers and the technology press shouldn't turn those temporary business realities into articles of faith.
Apple is particularly good at controlling the language around its products, which makes resisting this tendency even more important. When Apple doesn't offer something, there's often an impulse among its most ardent supporters to rationalize the omission and explain why nobody really needs it anyway.
Then Apple ships it, and suddenly it's useful.
That's why the lesson of the touchscreen MacBook Pro isn't that Apple lost, and Windows won. Frankly, that kind of platform-war thinking is just another version of the same problem.
@OABlanchard @TheRichWoods "He wouldn't be saying it today."Speaking for the dead now are we?October 28, 2026
The lesson is much simpler: stop putting corporations on pedestals.
You don't work for these companies. You don't owe them ideological consistency. Buy the products you like. Praise them when they're good. Criticize them when they're bad. And when an executive explains why a technology their competitors already offer is unnecessary, ridiculous, inelegant, or something customers don't want, maybe don't adopt that argument as part of your identity.
Because a few years from now, they may be standing onstage trying to sell it to you.
And when that happens, changing their mind is perfectly fine. Pretending they never told you otherwise is something else entirely.
But tell me, am I wrong or missing something? What do you think about Apple suddenly being interested in foldables and touchscreen laptops in 2026? Let me know in the comments.
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Apple Creator Studio will add AI assistants to Pages, Numbers, and Keynote in November. Check pricing, device requirements, and business account limits.
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Siri AI and Google Gemini both offer conversational AI, personal context, and app automation, but they work differently across devices. Compare their features, privacy controls, and everyday usefulness to decide which assistant suits you best.
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Apple's new M6 iMac skips the M5 generation, adding faster AI processing, Wi-Fi 7, and optional 2.5Gb Ethernet. Here's what buyers should know.
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Safari's Notify Me feature tracks webpage changes, including price drops and product restocks. Here's how to set up alerts on iPhone and Mac, check device compatibility, and understand the limitations for managed Apple devices.
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Apple’s October has turned into a full-on home makeover. First came HomeView, a $299 smart display for the kitchen with a generous helping of iMac nostalgia baked into its design. Now the iMac itself is back with the M6 chip, which feels a bit like the original star showing up after the spinoff already aired. The two aren’t rivals at all, because a 7-inch hub and a 24-inch desktop live very different lives. They play for the same team, with HomeView running the house while the iMac sits on the desk handling homework, taxes, and the occasional late-night gaming session.
The new iMac skips the M5 generation and goes straight to Apple’s 2nm M6 chip, with two more CPU and GPU cores than before. It starts at $1,499 for the 10-core, two-port model, while $1,699 gets you 12 cores, four Thunderbolt ports, and 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet living inside the power brick. Apple also swapped in its own N1 wireless chip for Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and Thread, which fits neatly with all that smart home energy. Those prices match what the M4 iMac cost after June’s price hike, so the extra cores are basically a free upgrade. Pre-orders open October 28, and the first deliveries land November 6.
Designer: Apple
The M6 is built on TSMC’s first-generation 2nm process, swapping the M4’s FinFET transistors for gate-all-around nanosheets that leak less power at these tiny sizes. The $1,499 model gets a 10-core CPU split into two super cores, three performance cores, and five efficiency cores. The $1,699 model bumps that to 12 cores, with two super, four performance, and six efficiency cores. Both get a matching GPU with a Neural Accelerator in every core, plus two 16-core Neural Engines totaling 32 cores. Memory bandwidth climbs from 120GB/s to up to 170GB/s, and the SSD now supports PCIe 5.0 for up to twice the read and write speed.
Apple’s own numbers put the M6 iMac up to 1.5 times faster than the M4 in Microsoft Excel and up to twice as fast for photo editing in Affinity. Ray-traced gaming performance doubles too, which is great news for anyone secretly using the family computer as a gaming rig. The biggest jump is on-device AI, with prompt processing in LM Studio up to five times faster than M4. Apple’s press release even name-drops vibe coding as an iMac use case, a very 2026 thing to say about a computer that comes in pink. If you’re coming from an Intel iMac, Apple claims up to 18 times faster performance, which should feel like time travel.
The $1,699 model comes with a 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet port as standard, and the $1,499 model can add one for $30. Apple builds that jack into the power adapter instead of the computer itself. That keeps the iMac’s 11.5mm-thin body free of a chunky network port, and your cable clutter ends up under the desk where it belongs. The previous model used the same brick trick, but it topped out at 1 Gigabit. At 2.5 Gigabit, pulling a giant photo library off a home server should feel a lot less like waiting for a kettle to boil.
Apple’s own N1 wireless chip replaces Broadcom, bringing Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and Thread, the low-power mesh network behind a lot of Matter smart home gear. External display support gets generous on the four-port model, which can drive two 6K screens at 60Hz, two 4K screens at 165Hz, or a single 4K panel at 240Hz. It can even run both external displays off a single Thunderbolt port. Everything you see and hear stays the same, from the 24-inch 4.5K Retina display at 500 nits to the 12MP Center Stage camera and six-speaker system. The seven colors carry over too, along with color-matched keyboards and mice that charge over USB-C.
The M4 iMac launched at $1,299 back in 2024, then jumped to $1,499 in June when Apple raised prices across the Mac lineup to cope with soaring memory and storage costs. The M6 model keeps that $1,499 starting price, but the base chip now has 10 CPU and GPU cores instead of eight. Compared to yesterday, that’s two extra cores of each for the same money. Compared to two years ago, the cheapest iMac costs $200 more. The four-port model at $1,699 is the one I’d point most people toward, since it bundles Ethernet, more display options, and the full 12-core chip.
If you bought an M4 iMac, enjoy it, because the display, camera, speakers, and design are identical and your browser tabs won’t notice the difference. Families still running an Intel or M1 iMac are the real audience here, and the jump will feel enormous. Pre-orders open October 28, with deliveries starting November 6. That makes it the third new Apple product in two days, after the iPad mini and alongside the M6 MacBook Pro, with touchscreen Macs still on deck. HomeView may have gotten the nostalgic looks this month, but the iMac is still the one doing the family’s homework.
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On Monday, the day the new iPad mini landed, I begged John Ternus to take a break. On Tuesday morning, Apple responded by dropping a brand-new 14-inch MacBook Pro with the M6 chip, roughly 24 hours before its Pro and Tell event in Los Angeles. That’s the event literally named after the MacBook Pro, by the way. It’s like a band releasing a single the night before the album drops, if the single cost $1,999. At this point I’ve stopped asking for rest and started stretching before I open my inbox.
The new MacBook Pro starts at $1,999 with 16GB of unified memory and 1TB of storage, the same price the M5 model has carried since Apple’s June price hike. Inside sits the M6, a 2nm chip with a 12-core CPU and 12-core GPU, two more cores apiece than before. Apple claims up to 30 percent faster graphics than M5, with Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6 arriving through its own N1 chip. Pre-orders open October 28, with deliveries starting November 6 in silver and space black. Even funnier, Wednesday’s rumored touchscreen MacBook Pros reportedly run M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, so the cheapest Pro in the lineup now has the newest silicon.
Designer: Apple
The M6 is built on TSMC’s first-generation 2nm process, and it first showed up in the Mac mini back in August. It swaps the old FinFET transistors for gate-all-around nanosheets, which wrap the gate around the channel on every side so less power leaks away at these tiny sizes. The CPU layout changes too, from four super cores and six efficiency cores to two super, four performance, and six efficiency cores. The GPU climbs to 12 cores, each with its own Neural Accelerator, while the Neural Engine doubles up to a dual 16-core setup totaling 32 cores. Apple claims up to 1.3 times faster Blender ray tracing and Xcode builds than the M5 model.
Apple ditched the M5 model’s Broadcom wireless chip for its own N1, which brings Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and Thread support. Thread is the low-power mesh network a lot of Matter smart home gear runs on, which fits neatly with the HomeView push Apple kicked off earlier this month. External displays get a bump as well, with two 4K monitors now running at up to 165Hz instead of 144Hz. Memory bandwidth rises to 170GB/s, though only on the 24GB and 32GB configurations. The base 16GB model stays at 153GB/s, so if you plan on running local AI models, spring for the extra memory.
The M5 model launched at $1,599 with 512GB of storage last October, jumped to $1,699 in March when 1TB became standard, then hit $1,999 in June when Apple raised prices across the Mac lineup. Apple blamed AI data centers hoovering up the world’s memory supply, saying it had never seen component costs climb so far so fast. So the M6 costs exactly what the M5 did yesterday, while sitting $400 above where the 14-inch Pro started a year ago. That 1TB base is generous at this tier, though it also means there’s no 512GB option to save a few bucks. Students and educators can knock the price down to $1,899.
Everything outside the chip carries over from the M5 model. The Liquid Retina XDR mini-LED display still peaks at 1,600 nits in HDR, with a nano-texture option for anyone working beside a sunny window. The 12MP Center Stage camera, six-speaker sound system, HDMI port, MagSafe 3, SDXC slot, headphone jack, and three Thunderbolt 4 ports all return untouched. Battery life holds at up to 24 hours, matching the M5, so Apple’s “longest ever in a Mac” line describes a tie. Coming from a 13-inch M1 MacBook Pro, though, that’s up to four extra hours, plus up to 13 times faster AI prompt processing.
According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Wednesday’s 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros will bring OLED touchscreens, a Dynamic Island in place of the notch, and a lighter build. They’ll also reportedly stick with M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, which means the $1,999 model you can’t touch has a newer chip generation than the flagships you can. Gurman says the mini-LED models stay on sale for now before eventually being phased out. Apple announced the M6 model on October 27, exactly ten years after it unveiled the Touch Bar, its last attempt at putting touch on a MacBook Pro. I refuse to believe that timing is an accident.
For an M5 owner, the M6 is an easy skip, since the design, display, and battery are identical. For anyone still hanging onto an Intel MacBook or an early M1 machine, this is the most sensible Pro you can buy, and it costs $500 less than the $2,499 M5 Pro model. Pre-orders for the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 open October 28 at 10:10 a.m. Pacific, with deliveries starting November 6. That’s an iPad mini, an iMac, and a MacBook Pro in two days from the guy I asked to take a break, with touchscreen Macs queued up next. At this rate we’ll get that Apple Car announcement by the end of the week.
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iFixit gives the iPhone Duo a provisional 5/10 repair score while investigating screen failures. See hinge concerns, $999 repairs, and tips for owners.
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Taking Halloween photos on your iPhone? Learn when to use Night mode, Burst, and manual controls to avoid blurry costumes and decorations after dark.
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Apple's first foldable iPhone reaches stores Oct. 23, with some deliveries delayed until 2027. Here's what buyers and IT teams should know.
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See what you missed in Daily Tech Insider from Oct. 19–23.
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Compare iPhone 18 Pro battery life with the iPhone 17 Pro, 16 Pro, and 15 Pro. See Apple's battery ratings and whether upgrading is worth it.
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The Mac Studio M5 Max costs $800 more than the Mac mini M5 Pro. Here's what you actually get for the extra money and whether it's worth it.
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Apple's new three-band AirPods equalizer supports select models, while Headphone Accommodations remains available on a wider range of headphones.
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Apple's 512GB Mac Studio is coming in late October 2026. Here's what to know about its M5 Ultra chip, AI capabilities, pricing, and availability.
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