For years, Apple has been perfectly happy to tell us that the Mac is a Mac and the iPad is an iPad, and never the twain shall meet. Want a touchscreen? That’s what your iPhone and iPad are for. The Mac, meanwhile, is a keyboard-and-trackpad kind of machine, thank you very much. For far too long, Apple resisted the inevitable.

The new MacBook Pro with touch is here, and beyond the considerable name – MacBook Pro With PROLED XDR Display – it’s a considerably bigger deal than just being able to poke at your screen instead of reaching for the trackpad. With a slimmer, lighter design, an OLED touchscreen and a rethink of how you interact with macOS, this feels like Apple finally reconsidering what a laptop should look and feel like. Having spent some time with it, I wanted to find out – beyond the novelty of finally being able to poke at a Mac screen – whether touch genuinely changes the Mac experience.

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