Apple's touch-screen MacBook Pro goes on sale today, no Egypt date yet

Apple's new MacBook Pro with a PROLED XDR display, the first Mac you can touch, goes on sale today, Friday 6 November, at Apple Store locations and Apple Authorized Resellers. Apple opened pre-orders on 28 October in 30 countries and regions, but it has not said whether Egypt is one of them, and the MacBook Pro page on Apple's Egypt site still shows the older model with a Liquid Retina XDR display and no local price.

The laptop comes in two sizes, 14.2 inches and 16.3 inches measured diagonally, with the M5 Pro or M5 Max chip and up to 128GB of unified memory. The headline change is the screen. It is a tandem OLED panel that Apple calls PROLED XDR, with up to 2,000 nits of peak brightness for both HDR and everyday SDR content, a contrast ratio of 10,000,000 to 1 and ProMotion that moves between 10Hz and 120Hz. It covers both the P3 and Adobe RGB colour ranges, which matters to photographers and designers who print their work.

Touch comes to the Mac for the first time. The touch sensor is built into the display panel itself rather than added as a layer on top, and Apple's own pictures show people tapping and dragging on screen while the keyboard and trackpad stay where they were. Apple also says the battery lasts up to 24 hours and that fast charging gets it to 50 percent in about 30 minutes.

The machines are lighter and thinner than the models they replace. The 14-inch weighs 3 lb (about 1.4 kg) and the 16-inch 4 lb (about 1.8 kg), 0.7 lb lighter than before; the 16-inch is nearly 1 mm thinner and the 14-inch 0.5 mm thinner. In the United States the 14-inch with M5 Pro starts at $2,899 and the 16-inch at $3,399, while the M5 Max versions start at $4,499 and $4,799.

This sits above the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 that Apple announced a day earlier, which keeps the familiar non-touch screen. Apple has no store of its own in Egypt, so new Macs usually reach the country through its authorised resellers once Apple Egypt adds them.

If you are in Cairo and want one, check the MacBook Pro page on apple.com/eg and the "Find a retailer" link there, which lists Apple's authorised sellers in Egypt. The Egyptian price and on-sale date have not been announced; we will update this story when Apple publishes them. Buying abroad means paying customs and the device registration fees on your return.