A YouTuber's Final Cut Pro 13 video went up early and came down fast, and Max Tech reads one feature in it, pinch to zoom, as a tell for the touchscreen MacBook Pro. Max Tech's thesis is bigger than one leak: three new Macs within 30 days, the touch model included.
The three Macs, per the video
| 14-inch MacBook Pro, M6 | Apple's N1 chip for Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6; same design and mini-LED display |
|---|---|
| 24-inch iMac, M6 | N1 chip and new colors; no design or display change |
| 14- and 16-inch OLED MacBook Pro | Full redesign with a touchscreen |
The evidence the video lines up
- Bloomberg's Power On podcast now expects the Macs within the month, after weighing a slip to 2027.
- Final Cut Pro 13 leaked through a creator's video that went private soon after; the chapter list a Reddit user saved includes pinch to zoom, a first for the Mac app.
- macOS 27.1 turns up on a touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro in leaked code. Apple usually ships its fall Mac update in late October, and last year's landed on November 3.
The M6 chip is already shipping in the Mac mini M6, which Max Tech's own tests put ahead of an M1 Max Mac Studio on GPU and CPU benchmarks.
What the OLED MacBook Pro adds
- A thinner, lighter body, per Bloomberg's podcast.
- A Dynamic Island where the notch sits now.
- Tandem OLED, the iPad Pro's panel type, with 1,600 nits peak brightness and no glow around bright objects.
- 5G, read from four new code names, two per size, which the video takes to mean a cellular model of each.
- A touch interface built for switching between trackpad and screen; Apple Pencil support is Max Tech's guess.
The timing is the soft spot. Bloomberg's August reporting, as MacRumors carried it, put the OLED models with M5 Pro and M5 Max chips between the end of the year and early 2027, behind the M6 base model, and the report of the OLED MacBook Pro testing on macOS 27.1 only narrowed that to later this year. Max Tech's 30 days is the tightest reading I've seen of the same signals.
A separate report keeps mini-LED MacBook Pro models on sale until 2028, and Max Tech guesses only the base 14-inch holds on to that panel. Its own preference is plainer:
I honestly think it makes sense just to move on to OLED and never look back.
A touchscreen Mac is first-generation hardware, and my rule there hasn't moved: the first round is for early adopters. The M6 iMac is the easier call, since its OLED version is, by the video's count, three or four years out.
