Source: Marques Brownlee
MKBHD MacBook Pro Impressions: What You Need to Know
THE TL;DW
- Marques Brownlee gives early MKBHD MacBook Pro Impressions on Apple’s first-ever touchscreen Mac, the new MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display.
- He notes the touch experience is smooth but still shows occasional mis-touches since the machine was designed around keyboard and trackpad input, and flags the nanotexture finish as softer to the touch than glossy.
- The standout upgrade for him isn’t touch itself but the weight — he found the 16-inch model lighter by nearly a pound compared to the non-touch version.
The Jupiter Take
Apple just broke a decades-old rule by putting touch on a MacBook, and MKBHD is among the first big names to get real hands-on time with it. His MacBook Pro Impressions matter because they come straight from Apple’s own launch event, not a leak or rumor.
Context
Apple officially unveiled the MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display this week, calling it the company’s first laptop with a touchscreen and its first Mac with an OLED panel. The 14-inch model starts at $2,899 and the 16-inch at $3,399, both running M5 Pro or M5 Max chips, with Apple’s newsroom announcement touting up to 2,000 nits of brightness, a 10,000,000:1 contrast ratio, and up to 24 hours of battery life. The design also drops the notch in favor of a Dynamic Island around the webcam, mirroring the iPhone.
