Apple on Wednesday launched its first-ever Mac with a touchscreen, after decades of resisting such a feature.

At an event in Los Angeles, the company said the new MacBook Pro’s display would also use OLED technology for the first time, in a feature it’s marketing as the ProLED XDR Display.

Recent iPhones, iPads and other devices have included OLED screens, while Macs have used high-density LCD displays that Apple markets as a Retina Display.

User-interface tweaks

The new MacBook Pro arrives after Apple has, for years, made its iPads work similarly to laptops.

Putting the shoe on the other foot, Apple has optimised the user interface for the new MacBook Pro for use with touch features, including the use of the Dynamic Island screen element found in iPhones and iPads.

The 14-inch version of the new system is priced starting at $2,899 (£2,175), while the 16-inch version starts at $3,399.

Both are offered with M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, an earlier generation than the M6 processor used in MacBook Pros and iMacs introduced earlier in the week.

A top-end version of the new laptop with 16 terabytes of storage and 128 gigabytes of memory costs $14,549.

Apple has been touting its latest systems’ local AI performance, highlighting a feature that has led many AI developers to prize the machines.

Other Apple launches this mopnth include the foldable iPhone Duo and the HomeView smart speaker.

The speaker, which uses a large language model-powered version of Siri, is reportedly one of several products whose launch was delayed due to Apple’s setbacks in bringing the new Siri to market.