A new leak says Apple's first-ever Mac with a touchscreen display is now "100% confirmed," days after a report that it was already in production testing and months from an expected release date. A MacBook Pro with a touchscreen OLED display is in the cards. Rumors of Apple's intention to bring touch to the Mac lineup have been rife for years. But they've coalesced in recent months, with a release window of late-2026 to early 2027 generally accepted to be most likely. Now, in a surprise to nobody, supply chain leaker Instant Digital has posted to the Weibo social network to weigh in. According to them, "It's 100% confirmed that the MacBook screen will be touch-enabled." Rumor Score: 🤯 Likely Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
In macOS 27 Golden Gate, Apple has removed many of the menu item icons that are so prevalent throughout macOS 26 Tahoe, as spotted by Nikita "Tonsky" Prokopov (via Daring Fireball ). The developer shared before-and-after screenshots on Mastodon to evidence the reversal. Menu item icons in macOS 26 (left) vs. macOS 27 (image: Nikita Prokopov) Tahoe was the first version of macOS to place a small icon next to nearly every entry in the menu bar across Apple's apps, but the change drew swift criticism from designers and developers. Many of the icons are inconsistent and often difficult to understand on their own, with different Apple apps showing different icons for the same menu items. The third-party developer pushback was strong enough that some even adopted open-source code provided by NetNewsWire's Brent Simmons to switch the icons off by default. In Golden Gate though, they're gone – or only used where genuinely useful. Apple has also revised its Human Interface Guidelines to tell developers to use menu item icons "sparingly and with purpose," reserving them for common actions, file system locations, connected devices, and similar cases. macOS 27 is currently in developer beta, with a public beta to arrive next month, followed by a general release in the fall. Related Roundups: macOS Tahoe , macOS Golden Gate Related Forum: macOS Tahoe This article, " macOS 27 Golden Gate Reverses a Divisive Tahoe Design Choice " first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums
It's early days yet, but if you rely on vendors' software for your RAID enclosure, you probably need to find out what their macOS 27 plans are. LaCie 12Big in its natural environment in 2017 We've had macOS 27 for all of four days at this point, and there may already be a show-stopping problem for folks that hang on to RAID enclosures. We've found several that just don't work under macOS 27. For example, I've got a Thunderbolt 3 LaCie 12Big enclosure that I've had for a while. It runs fine in Tahoe, on a Mac mini home server that I've had for years. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
