Apple just announced a new MacBook Pro, iMac, and iPad mini. The MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display has been redesigned with a lighter body, OLED display, and touch capabilities.
If you’re thinking about buying a new Mac, plan for where you’ll be in a few years. Memory and storage are set at checkout and can’t be changed later. The capacity of the lower-priced model trips people up most often: it can turn out too small to hold everything from your old computer. When in doubt, go larger than you think you need.
MacBook Pro 14″ and 16″ PROLED XDR Display
Apple now sells three tiers of MacBook Pros:
• MacBook Pro 14″ M6 – Announced 10/27.
• MacBook Pro 14″ and 16″ – Last year’s model.
• MacBook Pro 14″ and 16″ PROLED XDR Display – Announced 10/28.
Although the new models use the same M5 Pro and M5 Max chips as last year’s, there are several new features:
Display: Apple claims the PROLED XDR is the world’s best display in a pro laptop. Tandem OLED panel provides up to 2000 nits peak HDR and SDR brightness, 10,000,000:1 contrast ratio, with both P3 and Adobe RGB color spaces. ProMotion is available with refresh rates up to 120Hz.
Touch Screen: Touch sensor built directly into the display panel — not layered on top of it — reducing latency. Tap, swipe, scroll, drag-and-drop, and pinch to zoom. Apple says many apps work with touch right away because macOS turns taps into clicks. Third-party apps built for touch (Office, Lightroom, DaVinci Resolve and others) arrive “later this year.”
Dynamic Island: The notch has been replaced by the Dynamic Island that’s used on the iPhone and is the new home for Siri, Spotlight and Live Activities.
Speakers: Six speakers with an all-new woofer design deliver 50 percent deeper bass.
Weight: 14-inch model weighs 3lbs, which is half a pound lighter than its predecessor. The 16-inch model is 4lbs, and that’s 0.7lbs lighter than the previous model.
Price: With M5 Pro, the 14″ starts at $2,899 and the 16″ at $3,399. With M5 Max, the 14″ starts at $4,499 and the 16″ at $4,799.
MacBook Pro is available for pre-order now and releases November 6th.
iMac
The new 2026 iMac has been upgraded to the latest M6 chip with up to 2x faster storage, and now supports Bluetooth 6 and Wi-Fi 7.
The iMac starts at $1,499 with 16GB of Unified Memory and 256GB of storage. The base model has a 10-core CPU, 10-core GPU, and two Thunderbolt ports. It has no Ethernet by default (available as an option) and is configurable up to 24GB of Unified Memory and 1TB of storage.
The step-up model starts at $1,699 with 16GB of Unified Memory and 256GB of storage. It has a 12-core CPU, 12-core GPU, four Thunderbolt ports, and 2.5-gigabit Ethernet, and is configurable up to 32GB of Unified Memory and 2TB of storage.
iMac is available for pre-order now with a release date of November 6th.
iPad mini
OLED comes to iPad mini. The new display has deeper blacks, richer color, and more than twice the peak brightness of the previous model.
Chip: A20 Pro chip. Up to 60% faster CPU performance than the previous model (Apple’s figure is based on the 6-core CPU in the 512GB model). The 512GB model has one extra efficiency CPU core and double the Neural Engine hardware of the 128GB and 256GB models.
GPU: Up to 2.7 times faster graphics processing.
Memory: Double the memory bandwidth.
Design: 14% thinner than previous model. 24% thinner bezels.
Display: Larger 8.5″ OLED display with up to 1200 nits peak brightness.
Glass: Optional nano-texture glass on 256GB and 512GB models.
Weight: 13% lighter than the previous model. The Wi-Fi model weighs 255 grams.
Price: $699 for 128GB, $999 for 512GB, Wi-Fi only. Add $150 for cellular.
iPad mini is available for pre-order now and releases November 6th.
