Apple unveils MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch Screen

Apple today unveiled a new MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display, featuring tandem OLED technology, a 10,000,000:1 contrast ratio for exceptional detail, a 120Hz variable refresh rate, and a wider colour gamut covering both P3 and Adobe RGB for brilliant colours.

The new MacBook Pro also introduces Touch capabilities on the Mac for the first time, opening up a whole new dimension for pros to interact with their content, from manipulating 3D models to playing musical instruments onscreen.

The Dynamic Island now comes to Mac, serving as the home for Spotlight, Live Activities, and Siri AI. And with up to 24 hours of battery life in thinner and much lighter 3- and 4-pound designs, MacBook Pro is more portable than ever.

Featuring M5 Pro and M5 Max, along with up to 128GB of unified memory and now up to 16TB of blazing-fast storage, the new MacBook Pro delivers speed and capability for the most demanding workflows.

An enhanced six-speaker sound system now provides 50 percent deeper bass and remarkable sound clarity for even more immersive audio. And Thunderbolt 5 and a wide array of connectivity, a 12MP Center Stage camera, studio-quality mics, and macOS 27 with Apple Intelligence and Siri AI complete the MacBook Pro experience.

“The new MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display is a monumental step forward for the Mac,” said Johny Srouji, Apple’s chief hardware officer.

“PROLED XDR is the world’s best laptop display. It pairs state-of-the-art tandem OLED technology with advanced algorithms in our display engine to deliver the kind of visual fidelity pros have been dreaming of. And with the magic of Touch coming to MacBook Pro, combined with the game-changing performance of M5 Pro and M5 Max, we’ve created a whole new way for pros to interact with their content, taking their workflows to a completely new level. The new MacBook Pro is the result of the deep integration between Apple silicon, hardware, and software, and there’s simply nothing else like it.”

PROLED XDR

The new MacBook Pro debuts the PROLED XDR display, which uses tandem OLED technology and advances it with breakthrough innovations in every layer, advanced algorithms in the display engine, and a state-of-the-art factory calibration process to deliver Extreme Dynamic Range (XDR) and stunning visual fidelity.

With exceptional brightness, striking contrast, and vivid true-to-life colours, PROLED XDR offers the ultimate front-of-screen performance, enabling a new level of visual acuity and precision for content creators, photographers, colourists, and designers who need a reference-calibre display on the go.

The PROLED XDR display offers tandem OLED technology unlike any other, with deep innovations in its layers that keep brightness and grayscale uniform across the entire display, while minimising internal reflections common in traditional OLED designs.

It’s all backed by advanced algorithms in the display engine that precisely control each pixel in real time, plus a meticulous manufacturing process and precise calibration of every panel for consistency from display to display.

PROLED XDR offers up to 2000 nits peak HDR and SDR brightness, allowing specular highlights to shine with stunning intensity. And through optimisations in the tandem OLED panel and custom compensation techniques, combined with precise control of light across the display, the PROLED XDR display achieves an industry-leading 10,000,000:1 contrast ratio, so even the deepest shadows reveal incredible detail, bringing HDR content remarkably close to reality.

An Advanced Display Engine

The display engine precisely controls the colour and luminance of every pixel at the sub-millisecond level, compensating for content, pixel use, temperature, and environment all at once to offer exceptional brightness uniformity and grayscale accuracy, even in fast-motion content.

It also monitors and adapts each pixel’s usage over time to preserve stunning image quality. And ProMotion technology delivers adaptive refresh rates from as low as 10Hz for better power efficiency and up to 120Hz for fluid responsiveness for content in motion.

PROLED XDR offers pros a super-wide colour gamut with P3 and now Adobe RGB — critical for workflows in photography and design — along with notably wider coverage in green and cyan ranges. This results in more than 80 percent Rec. 2020 coverage for HDR video editing and colour grading.

Cutting-edge factory calibration ensures luminance, white point, and colour gamut are precisely aligned with standard targets. Both colour spaces are accessible within a single default preset, streamlining pro workflows and making it seamless to switch between them.

Stunning Clarity in Bright Light

With up to 2000 nits peak SDR brightness, combined with a state-of-the-art antireflective coating, the display is easy to read even in bright lighting conditions. For even greater visibility, the nano-texture option — now precisely etched into the cover glass — further reduces reflections and glare to eliminate distractions while maintaining an excellent viewing experience.

With breakthrough tandem OLED technology, extreme brightness, and extraordinary contrast, along with a super-wide colour gamut, PROLED XDR is truly the world’s best laptop display, giving pros an unparalleled visual experience and setting a whole new bar for the industry.

Touch Arrives on Mac

MacBook Pro features Touch for the first time, bringing pros a whole new way to interact with their content. Crafted specifically for the Mac, every touch interaction feels incredibly responsive and refined. Everyday tasks are simple and intuitive, allowing users to scroll through a webpage with a natural swipe; pinch to zoom in on a photo; drag and drop slides from one presentation to another; and double-tap a window to fill the screen, or flick to tile it into place.

And the touch sensor is built directly into the display panel — not layered on top of it — reducing latency so users feel like they’re touching the content itself.

Touch also introduces entirely new ways of working for pro users. Graphic designers can now use the entire display as their canvas, no longer constrained by the area of the trackpad when drawing; musicians can play software instruments right onscreen; and app developers can test how Touch performs in their iOS and iPadOS apps directly on the MacBook Pro display.

And these new ways to interact with MacBook Pro work in tandem with the keyboard shortcuts and trackpad gestures pros know and love. In addition, a newly designed hinge provides greater stability while using Touch, and advanced video stabilisation automatically smooths the camera feed in real time while using Touch on a video call.

Apple apps are optimised for the new MacBook Pro, and many existing apps work with Touch right away, because macOS automatically translates touches into clicks. Updated system gesture APIs also enable developers to create intuitive experiences designed specifically for Touch.

And a wide range of third-party apps that pros rely on every day will also take advantage of Touch on the new MacBook Pro, bringing new ways to interact with their favourite tools and workflows. These include everyday productivity and collaboration apps like Notion, Canva, Zoom, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook; powerful creative tools for photo and video editing like Adobe Lightroom and DaVinci Resolve; 3D modelling and animation apps like Blender, Maxon Cinema 4D, Maxon ZBrush, and Shapr3D; along with music apps like Algoriddim djay Pro.

Dynamic Island on Mac

The Dynamic Island comes to the Mac, serving as the new home for Spotlight, Live Activities, and Siri AI, where users can quickly search for anything on their MacBook Pro, access real-time updates, or take advantage of Siri AI.

Just like on iPhone, the Dynamic Island provides a quick, intuitive way to see and interact with important information. Users can ask a question, pick up a phone call, or control music — all within easy reach. With Live Activities, users can now get timely updates at a glance, and can accept an AirDrop request or pause a song with a tap of their finger.

A Thinner and Much Lighter New Design

The new MacBook Pro is thinner and significantly lighter for even better portability. The 14-inch MacBook Pro now weighs half a pound less at 3 pounds, while the 16-inch MacBook Pro weighs just 4 pounds — 0.7 pounds lighter than before.

Both models feature a slimmer design enabled by OLED’s more efficient display stack, with the 16-inch model nearly a millimetre thinner and the 14-inch model half a millimetre thinner.

With slimmer display borders, the 16-inch display grows to 16.3 inches, while the 14-inch display delivers a more portable 14.2-inch design.

And a completely redesigned thermal architecture enables the same incredible sustained performance of M5 Pro and M5 Max, even in a lighter design, while redirecting warm air away from the display.

Audio System

The six-speaker audio system in the new MacBook Pro features an all-new woofer design that provides 50 percent deeper bass and all-new tweeters that shape sound dispersion for remarkable clarity. Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos wraps users in immersive sound for music and movies, and studio-quality mics deliver clean, clear audio for calls, recordings, and voice commands.

And for the first time, dedicated audio tuning for closed-lid use delivers exceptional sound quality when MacBook Pro is connected to an external display, so users can enjoy a premium audio experience however they work.

New Features for Pro Workflows

The new MacBook Pro packs features for the most demanding users. The PROLED XDR display offers calibration and industry-standard reference modes in a portable form factor, making MacBook Pro an indispensable tool for filmmaking, design, and even medical imaging.

And macOS makes the most of the graphics, memory, and machine learning capabilities of Apple silicon, so apps perform at incredible speed.

• The Apple Pro Display Calibrator gives pros the ability to calibrate their display to specific targets. In addition, pros can take advantage of industry-standard reference modes for cinematic standards, photography, print, design, and more. And with new DICOM medical imaging reference modes, the display can be used today to review medical images with outstanding grayscale accuracy and contrast when used for research and educational purposes.
• Through Apple Colour Matching Function 2026, the PROLED XDR display delivers a seamless, consistent visual experience when paired with iPhone 18 Pro or Studio Display XDR.
• With support for genlock, MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display synchronises a display’s refresh rate with a camera’s capture to minimise ghosting, tearing, and other visual artifacts when filming, making it highly valuable for virtual productions and on-set work.
• Apple Creator Studio opens up new ways to create on MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display, optimising for Touch alongside the precision of the keyboard and trackpad. With Pixelmator Pro, creators can interact with their designs directly on the canvas, making use of the fully interactive display to draw, paint, and select with even more fluidity. In Logic Pro, musicians can play software instruments with a fully Multi-Touch polyphonic keyboard, along with tappable chord and drum pads onscreen. And in Final Cut Pro, editors can use Touch to precisely mark ranges, drop clips directly into place, pinch to zoom in on a cut, and more.

Pro Connectivity

The new MacBook Pro includes three Thunderbolt 5 ports, HDMI, an SDXC card slot, MagSafe, and a headphone jack. In addition to the PROLED XDR display, it supports up to three external displays with M5 Pro and up to four with M5 Max. Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6 provide fast, reliable wireless connectivity, and Touch ID enables a quick, easy, and secure login experience.

With its fast-charge capability, MacBook Pro can charge up to 50 percent in just 30 minutes. In addition, storage is now configurable up to 16TB.

macOS 27 Golden Gate

The new MacBook Pro comes with macOS 27. In addition to Touch built for macOS 27, MacBook Pro includes Siri AI, a profoundly more capable, conversational, and personal assistant; helpful Apple Intelligence features across apps; and an expansive set of improvements that make the Mac even more responsive and reliable.

Siri AI can draw on personal context to help pros find what they need in the moment across messages, emails, photos, and more; answer questions about virtually any topic; and get things done across apps — all with groundbreaking privacy protections.

Siri AI is integrated into Spotlight and system-wide context menus, and users can ask Siri about what’s on their display with Visual Intelligence by using a dedicated keyboard shortcut to get help with a specific item. Pros can also write and edit with Siri almost anywhere they type.

Additionally, Apple Intelligence makes apps smarter and more useful. In Safari, it powers new tools that automatically organise a user’s tabs into topics; notify them of website changes, like product restocks or price drops; and enable the creation of custom extensions based on a description. Pros can also easily create an automation in Shortcuts by simply describing it, or tap into intelligent photo editing tools in the Photos app.

Features users already rely on get even better with improvements to performance and search. Refinements to Liquid Glass deliver an even more focused and approachable experience. A new slider in Settings gives users the option to personalise Liquid Glass, adjusting it anywhere from ultraclear to fully tinted to match their preference, and app icons are sharper and more defined.

Pricing and Availability

Customers can pre-order the new MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display starting today, October 28, on apple.com/store and in the Apple Store app in 30 countries and regions, including the UK. It will begin arriving to customers, and in Apple Store locations and Apple Authorised Resellers, starting Friday, November 6.

The 14-inch MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display featuring M5 Pro starts at £2899 and £2749 with education savings; and the 16-inch MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display featuring M5 Pro starts at £3399 and £3199 with education savings.

The 14-inch MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display featuring M5 Max starts at £4499 and £4199 with education savings; and the 16-inch MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display featuring M5 Max starts at £4799 and £4499 with education savings.

Additional technical specifications and configure-to-order options are available at apple.com/macbook-pro.

Accessories — including the 70W Power Adapter for £59, 96W Power Adapter for £79, 140W Power Adapter for £99 , and the World Travel Adapter Kit for £39 — are available at apple.com/mac.