Joe Rossignol
While the new MacBook Pro lineup features faster M4 chips, Thunderbolt 5 support on higher-end configurations, a nano-texture display option, and more, most previous MacBook Pro models with Apple silicon still offer a cutting-edge overall design and strong performance, which might make you decide not to upgrade this year.
If you're planning to skip the new MacBook Pro, here are two bigger changes rumored to be coming to the laptop in a few years.
First, there's the OLED display. Previous rumors claimed the MacBook Pro would switch to OLED display technology as early as 2026. Meanwhile, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo and display industry analyst Ross Young recently predicted that the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros will still have mini-LED displays in 2025.
Compared to current MacBook Pro models with mini-LED screens, the benefits of OLED technology will include increased brightness, higher contrast ratios with deeper blacks, improved power efficiency for longer battery life, and more. The move to OLED displays could also contribute to future MacBook Pro models having a thinner design.
Second, there’s that thinner design we just mentioned. Earlier this year, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman said that Apple is working to make the MacBook Pro thinner over the “next few years.” He said Apple is aiming to create a class of devices that “are the thinnest and lightest products in their categories in the entire tech industry.”
A brighter OLED display and a much thinner design would be more compelling upgrades that could finally entice existing users of Apple’s silicon MacBook Pros to upgrade.
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