PROLED touchscreen MacBook Pro review roundup: fantastic screen, touch is secondary

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The first reviews of the new MacBook Pro PROLED with touch display are out. All of them rave about the screen, just about all of wince at the price, and most shrug about touch.

Person working on a laptop, touching a smartphone mockup on the screen while coding an app interface, with a smartphone placed on a wooden table in a casual indoor setting
Get used to cleaning smudges on the new MacBook Pro's display - Image Credit: Apple

Apple says these are the best MacBooks it's ever made, but it always says that. It says these have touch screens, and it's always rejected saying that.

Now that the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR models are in reviewers' hands, there is much talk of how Steve Jobs hated touch screens. Some like iJustine say he had a point, but all say what John Ternus has about this being the right time to add touch.


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