You can pay $15,000 to touch this MacBook Pro’s screen. Hurray?
THE SO WHAT
A $14K+ touch-screen MacBook Pro is a halo product that normalizes touch as a Mac input modality without immediately changing the fleet. If you manage Mac-heavy teams, don’t retool workflows yet — but assume future Mac apps will be expected to behave well with touch and pen, not just keyboard and trackpad.
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