We’re just a week away from the official announcement of the first ever touchscreen Mac . The upcoming MacBook Pro will also have an OLED screen, which may include a Dynamic Island, and is said to be lighter.

We don’t yet know the price of the new model, but we can be sure it will carry a significant premium over the existing one. My guess would be somewhere in the $500 to $700 range …

There’s so far been a fair degree of excitement about an OLED Mac. In some ways that’s certainly justified given the quality of the OLED screens we’ve seen on the iPad Pro. On the other hand, Apple’s IPS LCD panels with mini-LED backlighting have always looked fantastic, and I would say rival many competing OLED screens. For that reason, I’m expecting the improvement in display quality to be rather modest.

I’ve seen way less interest in the touchscreen. While there is certainly a segment of Apple fans who are eagerly awaiting it, the majority view seems to be that it will have limited utility and be a fingerprint magnet.…