{"id":216410,"date":"2026-02-22T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/22\/apples-next-macs-will-finally-check-every-box\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T18:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T23:55:09","slug":"apples-next-macs-will-finally-check-every-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/22\/apples-next-macs-will-finally-check-every-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#8217;s next Macs will finally check every box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/3023806\/apple-mac-features-oled-budget-touchscreen-5g.html\">Apple&#8217;s next Macs will finally check every box<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/3023806\/apple-mac-features-oled-budget-touchscreen-5g.html\">https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/3023806\/apple-mac-features-oled-budget-touchscreen-5g.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-22 10:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.macworld.com\">www.macworld.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Summary created by Smart Answers AI<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"miso-summary-title\" id=\"in-summary\">In summary:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Macworld reports Apple is developing multiple Mac innovations, including a touchscreen MacBook Pro expected in late 2026 and a budget MacBook potentially launching March 4.<\/li>\n<li>The upcoming MacBook Pro may feature Ultra Retina XDR displays, M6 Pro\/Max chips, and Apple\u2019s own cellular modems for enhanced connectivity.<\/li>\n<li>These developments could finally address longtime user requests for touch functionality and built-in cellular capabilities while expanding Apple\u2019s laptop market reach.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>According to rumors, 2026 is shaping up to be a huge year for the Mac, starting in just a couple of weeks with Apple\u2019s first event (or \u201cexperience\u201d) of the year. Along with the usual faster chips, Apple reportedly has new tricks up its sleeve in 2026, with several new features that will have Mac users everywhere saying, \u201cFinally!\u201d Here are four major overdue announcements we expect to arrive this year.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"a-budget-macbook\">A budget MacBook<\/h2>\n<p>iPhone fans have long pined for a truly affordable MacBook priced below the $999 MacBook Air that isn\u2019t just an older model with a cut-rate price. That dream machine may finally arrive in just two short weeks. On March 4, Apple will hold a series of \u201cexperiences\u201d in New York, London, and Shanghai, and the star is expected to be the first-ever low-cost MacBook. <\/p>\n<p>After tackling the mid-range market with the MacBook Air, Apple reportedly wants to compete with Chromebooks and Windows laptops, with a new laptop that could be as cheap as $599. Apple will reportedly use an A18 Pro or A19 Pro iPhone chip, and it will likely have a smaller screen than the Air and possibly fewer USB ports. But it will be powerful enough for everyday tasks and light work. For a lot of users, that\u2019s all that\u2019s needed.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"macbooks-with-oled-displays\">MacBooks with OLED displays<\/h2>\n<p>When Apple unveiled the M1 Pro\/M1 Max MacBook Pro in 2021, it was the first Mac to get the Liquid Retina XDR display, which was introduced in the 12.9-inch iPad Pro a few&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/3023806\/apple-mac-features-oled-budget-touchscreen-5g.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8217;s next Macs will finally check every box https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/3023806\/apple-mac-features-oled-budget-touchscreen-5g.html Publish Date: 2026-02-22 10:00:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216411,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Macbook-Pro-M5_5380-2.jpeg?quality=50&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[50,51],"class_list":["post-216410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-macintosh","tag-macbook-air","tag-macbook-pro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216412,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216410\/revisions\/216412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}