Without anything but a skim, surely there is no way a MB Pro ships with a virtual keyboard, that is pure torture.

Maybe it uses the camera for gesture recognition so you can air-write each letter one at a time? Air-quotes will be fun... air-tabs, not so much. "Space, but <widens arms> BIGGER!"

Obviously Apple's upcoming LLM will be used to infer based on observation of your past behaviour what you would have typed, and type it for you.

So basically the next generation of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8gF0KTfMrQ

If anything, they'll probably use the "studio" branding (or more likely just have it under the iPad line, since they have desktop chips in them now anyways)

Kill me with a blunt spoon before I take on a foldable touch screen.

macOS does not support touch input.

It would require the biggest UI redesign in the history of the company to ensure every input control is at least a centimetre away from anything else.

And would require every Mac developer to absorb the cost for major updates to their apps as well.

This would almost certainly be an iPad.

Obviously Apple knows how to do touch input.

And it would be possible to update macOS to enable basic touch input for unmodified apps if they wanted to.

The rumored price is enough to make me not worry about those.

Inflation still has a chance to make $3500 in 2026 dollars equivalent to the starting price of the 2016 16" MBP