Apple will launch its first MacBook Pro models with OLED displays in late 2026, according to the Korean site DealSite. This aligns with previous rumors. But I want more.
MacBook Pros with OLED displays have been rumored to be coming soon for over three years. Samsung was purportedly talking with Apple about supplying OLED displays for a Mac laptop as far back as May 2019, according to the Korean site The Elec.
That same year Kuo forecast a 16-inch (perhaps 17-inch) Mac laptop with an OLED display. And last month Omedia analyst Linda Lin said that we’d see such a laptop in 2026.
Apple’s MacBook Pro update seems a little confusing right now. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has said that Apple won’t release an M5-equipped laptop this year, as expected, but will roll it out early next year. However, as mentioned, he and others are predicting that the OLED MacBook Pro will arrive late in 2026. If correct, this means that Apple would release two pro laptops in the same year.
Gurman also thinks that the late 2026 MacBook Pro will have a new, thinner design. And I’m also betting (hoping?) that Apple will FINALLY offer a cellular option in one of next year’s pro laptops.
In my ideal scenario, the late 2026 MacBook Pro would have a 17-inch OLED display with built-in cellular and an M6 processor. As for the thinner design, that would be okay as long as Apple didn’t make the same mistake it has in the past by slimming down its laptops so much that they lose some functionality.
This is something that I’m afraid will happen with the rumored “iPhone Air.” But that’s another story.
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