Mark Gurman has walked back his own previous claims that the forthcoming OLED touch-screen MacBook Pro will feature a redesigned and thinner chassis.
A new MacBook Pro is now expected before the end of November 2026, and it has long been predicted to bring an OLED touch-screen display for the first time. At times, though, it's been expected to be thinner than the current models, but according to Bloomberg, that now isn't the case.
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman has repeatedly been the source for claims of a thinner redesign, but he has taken to X to say this isn't the case.
"I don't think it'll be significantly thinner in the end," he wrote. There are no further details nor any reference to previous claims of it being thinner.
Gurman has recently also said that the new MacBook Pro will be lighter than its predecessor. Specifically, the claim was that Apple had rearranged components and also managed to reduce the size of some of them.
Presumably it hasn't reduced the size enough that it can produce a thinner chassis. So it's not clear just how much lighter it can be.
No figures have been revealed for how much lighter the MacBook Pro may be. The current 16-inch MacBook Pro is 4.7 pounds, which doesn't seem heavy until you switch to the 3.3 pounds of a 15-inch MacBook Air.
Apple has of course not confirmed that there is to be a new MacBook Pro, let alone that it will have a touch-screen. But it now appears inevitable, given years of touch patents, a hinge redesign, and Sidecar supporting touch in macOS 27.
