Apple spent three mornings in late October announcing new hardware by press release: an OLED iPad mini on the 26th, a 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 and an M6 iMac on the 27th, and on the 28th the one everyone was waiting for, a redesigned MacBook Pro with a touchscreen OLED display. Pre-orders opened October 28 and every product shipped on November 6, 2026, running macOS 27.2.
The Touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro (October 28)
The laptop the rumor mill spent a year calling the “MacBook Ultra” arrived as a MacBook Pro. It is the first Mac with an OLED panel and the first with touch input. Apple brands the screen PROLED XDR: a tandem OLED at 14.2 or 16.3 inches, up to 2,000 nits in both HDR and SDR, 10,000,000:1 contrast, ProMotion from 10 Hz to 120 Hz, and an optional nano-texture finish. A Dynamic Island replaces the notch, the hinge was redesigned to resist wobble when you tap the screen, and the Apple logo on the lid glows again.
- Chips: M5 Pro and M5 Max, the same silicon as the March 2026 MacBook Pro. There is no M6 Pro or Max; that rumor held up.
- Price: from $2,899 (14-inch) and $3,399 (16-inch), a $400 premium over the mini-LED models, which stay on sale. A fully loaded 16-inch with 128 GB of memory and 16 TB of storage reaches $14,549.
- Touch: macOS translates taps into clicks, and macOS 27.2's gesture-recognition code handles pinch and scroll. Apple positions it as a complement to the trackpad, not a replacement.
- Other: up to 1 mm thinner, 3 lb and 4 lb respectively, six speakers, three Thunderbolt 5 ports, HDMI, SDXC, MagSafe, Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, four external displays, and 50% charge in 30 minutes.
14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 (October 27)
The entry-level MacBook Pro gets the first M6 chip: a 12-core CPU (2 “super”, 4 performance, 6 efficiency cores) and 12-core GPU, up from 10 and 10 on the M5, plus a dual 16-core Neural Engine. Memory bandwidth rises to 170 GB/s on the 24 GB and 32 GB configurations, external displays go to 165 Hz, and the N1 chip brings Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6. Storage starts at 1 TB. Apple quotes up to 24 hours of battery life. Price is unchanged at $1,999. Everything else, including the mini-LED screen, is the same as the M5 model.
iMac with M6 (October 27)
The 24-inch iMac keeps its M4-era design and seven colors but moves to M6, with up to 170 GB/s memory bandwidth, a PCIe 5.0 SSD with up to twice the throughput, Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6. The base model (10-core CPU and GPU, 16 GB, 256 GB, two Thunderbolt 4 ports) is $1,499; the 12-core version with four ports is $1,699. Maximums are 32 GB and 2 TB. Both prices match the M4 iMac after June's increases.
OLED iPad mini (October 26) and Everything Else
The week opened with an iPad mini redesign: an 8.5-inch OLED, A20 Pro chip, IP67 rating, 5.4 mm body, Wi-Fi 7, C2 cellular, and a “Acoustic Display” that removes the speaker holes. It starts at $699, up from $599. Apple also refreshed its Mac chargers, added a 512 GB Mac Studio M5 Ultra configuration at $22,299, and raised the education price of the MacBook Neo to $649.
What Ships on Them, and Which Should You Buy?
All four products took pre-orders from October 28 and reached stores on Friday, November 6. The new Macs ship with macOS 27.2; the iPad mini runs iPadOS 27.2. If you own an M5 MacBook Pro, nothing here is a speed upgrade: the OLED model uses your chip, and the M6's gains are modest outside AI workloads. If you were waiting for the redesign, it exists now, and the question is whether the screen is worth $400 to you. Our 2026 Mac buying guide has been updated with the new line-up, and the rumors page settles up on what the leaks got right.