Apple’s plans to add touchscreens to its premium MacBook Pros are coming into focus. bloomberg The report says that when the new laptops launch this fall, they will feature a dynamic island, not dissimilar to those on Apple’s iPhones, and an interface that will change depending on how you touch the MacBook’s screen.
This “dynamic interface” is reportedly designed to smooth the transition between mouse input and touch input on Apple’s new laptops. bloomberg says that if users touch an onscreen button, the version of macOS running on these new MacBook Pros will be able to pull up a contextual menu “that provides more relevant options for touch commands.” Some parts of the interface, such as macOS’s menu bar, will also be able to be expanded to make it easier to select menu items with a finger. Those changes are on top of the features expected from touchscreen Apple products, like smooth scrolling and the ability to pinch and zoom in and out of images, files and Web pages. There’s only one thing missing from these booming iPad-like laptops bloombergThere will be a touchscreen keyboard, as they already have a more comfortable physical keyboard attached.
To make these new laptops extra attractive, both the 14-inch and 16-inch touchscreen MacBook Pros will feature OLED screens for the first time, which is presumably why Apple will be able to include dynamic island-style webcams in the first place. So far, the company has offered OLED screens on its iPhones, Apple Watches, and most recently the iPad Pro, but it has not brought the display technology to laptops. That may reportedly change with these new MacBook Pros.
Many Windows laptops include touchscreens, and Microsoft and its partners have included dynamic interface elements in the past to make these touchscreens more natural to use with Windows. Apple is late to the party in this regard, but it’s potentially poised to succeed. Most modern macOS already looks touch-friendly, and Apple has made significant efforts to make it possible to port touch-based iPad apps to macOS and develop applications on all platforms. This, combined with the right interface, can improve the experience of using a touchscreen MacBook, even if it doesn’t get rid of the awkwardness of having to reach for your keyboard to touch the screen.
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