Comment on macOS Touch by Dave

"...Presume this will be enabled for the upcoming touchscreen MacBooks..."

Speaking personally, I have no need for a laptop with a touch screen. But bias aside, let's consider both form factor and cost. Or better yet, targeted users.

(1) Cost. Apple's hardware (despite upper-level and rising) profit margins will be going up this calendar year. Forget about the reasons - just consider how much this touch-screen laptop will be. Vision Pro, anybody? This is all I wish to say about cost.

(2) Form factor. Why a laptop? If it's portability, Apple already makes it. Just make iPadOS behave like macOS. If you wish to use current hardware (macOS) hardware offerings have a touchscreen monitor, why not do just that - make an external monitor with touchscreen capability driven by the OS?

(3) Target users. Apple missed it with Vision Pro. To use a phrase from a former CEO at Apple, where is the puck headed? AI, CPUs, tariffs, data centers. Focusing on CPUs, it's not like the price of oil, where demand is fairly static, but 2026 saw a tightening of supply. No, for CPUs, you have data centers that have seen a spike in demand for CPUs. I would say if your basic iPad Air and MacBoon Neo are US$599, and your 14 inch MacBook Pro is US$1699, a better fit is not something small and portable, but something larger targeting "corporate" users with the money to buy it. Remember, they already portability in an iPad - if only it ran macOS. :-)