TECH NEWS

Apple Reverses Steve Jobs' Long-Held Stance on Touch-Screen MacBooks With New MacBook Pro

At this week's "Pro and Tell" event in Los Angeles, Apple unveiled its first touch-screen MacBook: the all-new MacBook Pro with a PROLED XDR Display. The laptop defies late Apple CEO Steve Jobs' stance against touch-screen MacBooks, symbolizing a shift in Apple's philosophy as its second post-Jobs CEO settles into the C-suite.

Jobs famously snubbed touch-enabled MacBooks in 2010, saying Apple had tested the technology and deemed it "ergonomically terrible."

Now Apple seems to have pivoted, saying the new device offers "a whole new way for pros to interact with their content, taking their workflows to a completely new level."

The MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR comes in 14-inch and 16-inch sizes, which start at $2,899 and $3,399 in the US. It uses a tandem OLED display that reportedly delivers up to 2,000 nits of peak brightness and a 10,000,000:1 contrast ratio. The touch screen is built into the display...

Copyright of this story solely belongs to www.extremetech.com. To see the full text click HERE

https://www.zdnet.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/9e735a6c-10a9-41cb-b9a1-8764ebcc13a3.jpg

Your headphones have hidden LE Audio features you’ll want to know about

ZDNET’s key takeaways * LE Audio is more than Auracast. * Bluetooth headphones with LE Audio transmit audio in new ways across the board. * Your LE Audio headphones have several less-discussed new tricks. The shift from Classic Bluetooth to LE Audio is in full swing, as JBL and Sony release flagship

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/vLoSnmu8jSgXsvCsvQ36XM-2560-80.jpg

Upgrade to Windows 11 Pro for $10 and get BitLocker and Hyper-V for 95% off

We called Windows 11 "the best operating system made by Microsoft," when we took the OS out for a spin in our review. Since then, I'd argue it's grown from strength to strength. And while I'm not sure the company will ever

https://images.ctfassets.net/kftzwdyauwt9/75veJvi069XNefheZKrGT3/524e301a9565289e83b5a666d47b3da5/model-spec-update-more-capable-beneficial-ai-seo.png?w=1600&h=900&fit=fill

OpenAI updates Model Spec to reorganize it around five values: faithfulness to human intent, harm minimization, honesty and transparency, human agency, and care

Featured Podcasts The Upstarts Podcast: The Accidental YC Founder Solving AI's GPU Crisis | SF Compute's Evan Conrad Veteran tech reporter Alex Konrad sits down with breakout entrepreneurs taking on the status quo to shake up their fields in AI, design, nuclear energy, space, and more. Subscribe

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Granola.jpg?resize=1200,675

Granola crunches up a dictation feature to compete with Wispr

In Brief 10:54 AM PDT · October 29, 2026 Apps in the consumer voice AI world seem to be converging, as Granola, known for its meeting notetaker, launched a dictation feature today. This comes months after Wispr, known for its dictation tool, launched a meeting notetaker. Granola’s dictation currently

Read more

Your headphones have hidden LE Audio features you’ll want to know about

Upgrade to Windows 11 Pro for $10 and get BitLocker and Hyper-V for 95% off

OpenAI updates Model Spec to reorganize it around five values: faithfulness to human intent, harm minimization, honesty and transparency, human agency, and care

Granola crunches up a dictation feature to compete with Wispr