{"id":233344,"date":"2026-04-20T09:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T13:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/apples-touchscreen-macbook-pro-could-be-pushed-back-heres-what-we-know\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T10:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T14:25:08","slug":"apples-touchscreen-macbook-pro-could-be-pushed-back-heres-what-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/apples-touchscreen-macbook-pro-could-be-pushed-back-heres-what-we-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#8217;s touchscreen MacBook Pro could be &#8216;pushed back&#8217; \u2014 here&#8217;s what we know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomsguide.com\/computing\/macbooks\/apples-touchscreen-macbook-pro-could-be-pushed-back-heres-what-we-know\">Apple&#8217;s touchscreen MacBook Pro could be &#8216;pushed back&#8217; \u2014 here&#8217;s what we know<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomsguide.com\/computing\/macbooks\/apples-touchscreen-macbook-pro-could-be-pushed-back-heres-what-we-know\">https:\/\/www.tomsguide.com\/computing\/macbooks\/apples-touchscreen-macbook-pro-could-be-pushed-back-heres-what-we-know<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-20 09:22:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.tomsguide.com\">www.tomsguide.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-57e7846a-b2a9-4edc-ac80-3c6ee95799de\">A lot of us here at Tom&#8217;s Guide have been waiting for the upcoming MacBook Pro refresh, in part thanks to the rumors Apple might actually add a touchscreen this time. It had been reported that the update would arrive before the end of this year, but it seems RAMageddon may have claimed another victim.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mark Gurman at Bloomberg, the industry-wide RAM shortage could force Apple to delay its Mac upgrade plans. Apparently, Apple doesn&#8217;t want to go to the trouble of launching new Macs only to contend with supply chain shortages in the aftermath, so launch dates are being pushed back.<\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-57e7846a-b2a9-4edc-ac80-3c6ee95799de-2\" class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">As for the touchscreen MacBook Pros, a late 2026 is apparently not on the cards anymore. Gurman says that Apple&#8217;s original timeline for the touchscreen MacBook Pros was late 2026 or early 2027, but supply chain shortages (along with the move to M6 chips) mean we shouldn&#8217;t expect the new machines to launch until &#8220;the later end of the timeline.&#8221; That means an early 2027 launch at the absolute earliest.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"article-continues-below block py-2 text-sm\">Article continues below <\/span><br \/>\n        <span class=\"\n            flex\n            after:content-[''] after:flex-1 after:ml-4 after:my-[0.7rem] after:border-t after:border-solid after:border-t-[#ccc]\n            before:content-[''] before:flex-1 before:mr-4 before:my-[0.7rem] before:border-t before:border-solid before:border-t-[#ccc]\n            font-article-heading pb-0 !text-base uppercase sm:text-sm font-bold\n        \"><br \/>\n            You may like<br \/>\n        <\/span><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"what-about-mac-studio-3\">What about Mac Studio?<\/h2>\n<p id=\"elk-690f72c3-7026-434a-9623-be204c4afece\">According to Gurman, Apple plans to release new Mac Studio models, designed to succeed last year&#8217;s M4 Max and M3 Ultra models, around the middle of the year.<\/p>\n<p>But Gurman also notes that shipments of existing RAM-heavy Macs are already being delayed by several months, which means new models may have to wait.<\/p>\n<p>Sources claim that these new models likely won&#8217;t ship until around October. This just goes to show that even companies with as much buying power as Apple are suffering from RAMageddon and ongoing memory shortages.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, things could still change in the coming months, though we shouldn&#8217;t expect supply chains to stabilize anytime soon. The experts don&#8217;t seem to think that the RAMageddon effect on supply chains could continue for years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips.<\/p>\n<p>I just hope that this delay is the only one the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomsguide.com\/computing\/macbooks\/apples-touchscreen-macbook-pro-could-be-pushed-back-heres-what-we-know\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8217;s touchscreen MacBook Pro could be &#8216;pushed back&#8217; \u2014 here&#8217;s what we know https:\/\/www.tomsguide.com\/computing\/macbooks\/apples-touchscreen-macbook-pro-could-be-pushed-back-heres-what-we-know Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/dWB37Y64jYdTkgxi7hXWXN-2000-80.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[54,51],"class_list":["post-233344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-macintosh","tag-mac-studio","tag-macbook-pro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233344"}],"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=233344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233346,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233344\/revisions\/233346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}