Apple is considering a touchscreen Mac laptop for 2025

January 13, 2023: -Apple could release a MacBook Pro laptop with a touchscreen in 2025, according to a report from Bloomberg.

According to the report, teams inside Apple are operating on the project, and the first design includes a trackpad, keyboard, and touchscreen.

If it were to happen, the move would mark a significant reversal for Apple, which has stated for years that touchscreen laptops are ergonomically inferior, even as contending Windows laptops now have touchscreens as a standard feature.

“We suppose that the ergonomics to use a Mac are that your ways are rested on a surface and which lifts your arm to poke a screen is a kind of fatiguing thing to do,” Apple’s head of software, Craig Federighi said in 2018, which added that he’s “not into touchscreens” on PCs.

More recently, he was questioned at a conference whether Apple would release a touchscreen laptop, and he added, “who’s to say?”

However, Apple’s Mac business doesn’t need a shot in the arm. Mac sales increased when Apple replaced Intel processors in most of its computers with its silicon. The change improved battery life and decreased overheating. Apple’s Mac business generated $40.1 billion in revenue during the firm’s fiscal 2022, up 14% from 2021.

A touchscreen Mac would require substantial software changes to accept finger taps, instructing larger buttons instead of mouse clicks. Apple’s iPhone and iPads operates system designed for touchscreens, while macOS can only be controlled with a mouse and keyboard.