Apple to release five products on 6 November 2026, including its first touchscreen MacBook Pro

Five products on 6 November

Apple will release five products on Friday 6 November 2026: the 14-inch and 16-inch touchscreen MacBook Pro, a 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6, an M6 iMac and an OLED iPad mini. Pre-orders opened on 28 October, India Today reported. Apple says all five begin arriving in stores and with customers that day.

First touchscreen Mac

The touch models are Apple's first Macs with direct touch support and its first MacBook Pros with tandem OLED displays, which Apple calls PROLED XDR. They have a 120Hz refresh rate, Dynamic Island in place of the notch, and M5 Pro or M5 Max chips. The Apple Post reported Apple made the enclosure slimmer and lighter. ProPakistani reported the illuminated Apple logo returned to the lid.

Apple claims up to 24 hours of battery life for the touch MacBook Pros, India Today reported. The 16-inch model has a 16.3-inch PROLED XDR screen with touch gestures and ProMotion refresh rates up to 120Hz. It offers up to 128GB of unified memory and up to 16TB of storage. ProPakistani reported Apple positions the larger model for video editing, graphic design and software development.

The M6 Mac, iMac and iPad mini

The 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 keeps the existing Liquid Retina XDR display and has no touch or Dynamic Island. India Today reported the M6 chip brings a 12-core CPU and 12-core GPU, while the laptop has a 12MP Centre Stage camera, a six-speaker audio system, Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6 and up to 24 hours of battery life. It comes in Space Black and Silver, and ProPakistani reported it has more base storage than its predecessor.

The M6 iMac keeps the 24-inch 4.5K Retina display and adds Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, optional 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet and support for two external 6K displays, The Apple Post reported. India Today reported Apple sells the iMac in seven colours and ships it with macOS 27.

The iPad mini moves to an 8.5-inch OLED screen, the A20 Pro chip, a 5.4mm body, a landscape front camera and Wi-Fi 7, The Apple Post reported. India Today reported it comes in Midnight and Starlight finishes and supports Apple Intelligence. ProPakistani noted it is the first iPad mini with an official IP67 dust and water rating. IGN noted the A20 Pro is the same chip used in the iPhone Duo and the iPhone 18 Pro.

Why Apple added touch

Apple spent years arguing against touch on a laptop. Steve Jobs called touchscreen laptops 'ergonomically terrible' in 2010 and said 'your arm wants to fall off.' Tom's Hardware reported that Mac users rejected the Touch Bar, which Apple later reversed. Tom Mainelli, group vice president of device and consumer research at IDC, told Tom's Hardware that Apple tends not to adopt a new technology until it can bring a differentiated product to market.

'Based on all the demos they are showing here in LA, the drive for why now is because they see a desire for touch from creators who use the Mac.'

He added that Apple is creating a more premium tier in a mature market. Tom's Hardware traced the shift to Windows 8 in 2012, which brought a touch-first interface and a wave of touch laptops, and noted the 2013 Chromebook Pixel was considered premium because of its touchscreen. The outlet expects touch to reach cheaper MacBook Pros and the MacBook Air over time, but not soon. As it noted, the Mac is only now getting OLED.

Price and availability

MacRumors reported that the touch models start at $2,899 for 14 inches and $3,399 for 16 inches, the M6 MacBook Pro at $1,999, the iMac at $1,499 and the iPad mini at $699, and that Apple has kept the mini-LED M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pros on sale alongside the touch versions, which cost $400 more. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said he expects the two lines to converge but did not give a date. ZDNET reported that Apple will eliminate non-touch versions of the premium MacBook Pros as soon as next year.

A fully configured touch model reaches $14,549 at Apple, IGN reported, about five times the $2,899 starting price. MacRumors reported that most configurations look set for launch-day delivery. The exception is the base 14-inch touchscreen MacBook Pro: Space Black ships in three to four weeks, while Silver ships in seven to ten business days.

India availability

In India, the iPad mini, M6 iMac and 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 arrive on 6 November. The two touchscreen models follow on 9 November. Indian prices start at Rs 82,900 for the Wi-Fi iPad mini, Rs 1,00,900 for the cellular version, Rs 1,74,900 for the iMac, Rs 2,39,900 for the 14-inch M6 MacBook Pro and Rs 3,49,900 for the 14-inch touch model with M5 Pro, India Today reported. The iMac has a higher configuration at Rs 1,99,900, and the 16-inch touch model with M5 Pro starts at Rs 4,09,900.

Next year

MacRumors reported that Gurman expects a second generation of touchscreen MacBook Pros in 2027 on M7 Pro and M7 Max chips, with extra hardware for AI. He previously said the M7 upgrade would arrive toward the end of 2027. The redesign will also reach the entry-level 14-inch MacBook Pro, with a thinner enclosure and narrower borders around the display. Gurman first reported that base-model redesign in July, pointing to the first half of 2027.