Touchscreen input
The MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display is Apple’s first touchscreen Mac. Now, users can tap on the screen in addition to typing on the keyboard and using the built-in trackpad. The touchscreen is in addition to these traditional input methods; it doesn’t replace them.
Users can use touch gestures that are familiar: scrolling can be done with swiping, pinch to zoom, double-tap a window to fill the screen, and more. Apple built the touch sensor directly into the display panel so latency is minimized.
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The key to a successful touchscreen experience is accommodating software, and Apple has made several touch enhancements throughout macOS 27 Golden Gate. For example, Safari tabs “lift” and then enlarge as you drag it to a new location, then go back to their original size when dropped, and buttons enlarge when it sense your fingers on the screen. Apple has also made system gesture APIS available so developers can configure their software for touch.
OLED display
The MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display is also the first MacBook to feature a tandem OLED display. Two OLED panels are stacked together to provide an overall improved screen experience. Apple first introduced tandem OLEDs in the 2024 iPad Pro.
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Marketed by Apple as an Ultra Retina XDR display, tandem OLEDs produce deeper blacks, more contrast, and better colors. Apple rates the MacBook Studio’s XDR brightness at 1,000 nits sustained full-screen, 2,000 nits peak for HDR content only, and an SDR brightness up to 1,000 nits sustained full-screen, 2,000 nits peak. That’s a big improvement over the mini-LED models
Apple calls the display a “portable reference monitor,” a statement targeted at professionals who demand color accuracy. The laptop’s display engine controls color and luminance at the sub-millisecond level for content, pixel use, temperature, and environment. With support for ProMotion, the display supports variable refresh rates up to 120Hz. The new genlock feature syncs the display’s refresh rate with a connected camera’s capture rate.
