Touchscreen MacBook Pro Still Wobbles Under a Finger

Touchscreen MacBook Pro wobble is still visible in a hands-on video posted on X on launch day, even with the redesigned hinge Apple built for touch. The display shakes under a fingertip, and reaching up to a vertical screen is the same stretch it has always been. Apple’s fix is a redesigned hinge that keeps the screen steadier when you tap or swipe, paired with a built-in touch sensor inside the display panel instead of layered on top of it. The 14-second video shows someone playing Logic Pro’s Multi-Touch piano keyboard on the MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display, and the display moves under the finger as the keys are played.

Touchscreen MacBook Pro wobble persists even with the new hinge

Apple says the hinge provides greater stability while using touch, and the 12MP Center Stage camera gets advanced video stabilization that smooths the feed when you touch the screen during a video call. That second feature only makes sense if the display moves, which is what the video shows. Piano keys land on the same part of the glass again and again, which is a harder test for a hinge than a swipe or a double-tap. The touch features Apple promotes for everyday work are single touches, such as scrolling a webpage, pinching to zoom on a photo or double-tapping a window to fill the screen.

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Reaching up to a vertical display is the problem no hinge fixes

The display stays upright above the keyboard, so every tap means lifting an arm. Mark Gurman wrote that reaching up to a vertical display gets uncomfortable after a few seconds, which echoes Steve Jobs at Apple’s Back to the Mac event in October 2010, when he said touch surfaces should not be vertical and called that setup ergonomically terrible. In Apple’s pitch, touch works in tandem with keyboard shortcuts and trackpad gestures. Drawing with the whole display as a canvas or playing an instrument asks for longer stretches on the glass than a quick swipe, and those are the jobs where raising an arm costs the most. Many existing apps respond to a finger on day one because macOS turns taps into clicks, and Microsoft Word, DaVinci Resolve and Blender are among the apps adding touch support later this year.

The 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 skips touch and starts at $1,999

The 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 starts at $1,999 and has no touch display. The 14-inch MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display starts at $2,899 with M5 Pro, and the 16-inch MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display starts at $3,399. The first touch models reach customers and Apple Store locations on Friday, November 6.