Apple will release MacBook Pro and iPad mini models with OLED displays this year, according to the South Korean publication, ETNews. Of course, this isn’t exactly breaking news.
However, ETNews says Samsung will supply the OLED displays for both devices. The current iPad mini and MacBook Pro models have LCD displays with either LED or mini-LED backlighting.
As far back as November 2025, Weibo-based leaker Instant Digital said Apple would debut the iPad mini 8 with an OLED display in the third quarter of 2026 at the earliest. And that was the first talk of an iPad mini with an OLED display.
In an October 2024 report, analyst Ross Young said the same thing in a social media post. The iPad mini 7 arrived in October 2024.
As for the MacBook Pro, it might get a new name. An anticipated Mac laptop with an OLED touch screen will be dubbed the “MacBook Ultra,” Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has predicted. Previously, it’s been expected that the device would be a revamped, thinner version of a MacBook Pro. Gurman hints that it will be a new category.
He says that the MacBook Ultra will be offered alongside the current 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros and not replace them. Gurman did offer the caveat that Apple “could keep the traditional MacBook Pro name,” but a MacBook Ultra moniker would “more clearly signal their position at the top of the lineup.”
Whatever its name the laptop is expected to debut before year’s end. Previously, Gurman has said that the first Mac with a touchscreen won’t be a “touch-first” device a la the iPhone and iPad, though it will allow folks to use touch and mouse gestures interchangeably for all functions.
For example, when using touch, the revamped macOS interface will swap to a touch-friendly mode. You’ll be able to tap or click on-screen elements. For instance, if you tap on a menu bar item, the display will show a larger set of controls optimized for touch. Touch-based options will be integrated throughout macOS, and it will support iPad features like pinch gestures for zooming in or out and fast scrolling.
In other words, Apple will provide iPadOS-like features in a revamped macOS. This, of course, is quite different from the years-long trend of adding macOS features to iPadOS.
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