We could possibly be lower than two years away from the primary large-screen folding MacBook

We’ve been listening to for years that Apple is engaged on a large-screen folding system that’s extra more likely to be an iPad than an iPhone. And now a brand new report sheds some new mild on the undertaking–which may arrive in 2026.

In keeping with a Medium publish by Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple is trying to ship a large-screen folding MacBook by 2026. That’s a barely extra aggressive timeline than has been beforehand rumored and will symbolize an acceleration of the undertaking. Kuo claims Apple “goals to make the panel as crease-free as potential, requiring excessive design specs for each the panel and the hinge,” that are dear at round $900 for the 2 components.

Kuo claims that Apple is contemplating a folding MacBook with both a 20.25-inch or 18.8-inch show, which might correspond to the closed dimension of Apple’s present 14–15-inch and 13–14-inch laptops, respectively. On X, Ross Younger of Show Provide Chain Consultants (by way of MacRumors) stated Apple is leaning towards the 18.8-inch mannequin to maintain prices down.

In keeping with Kuo, the laptop computer will use Apple’s M5 chip, which is predicted to ship within the second half of 2026.

In case you didn’t already guess, Kuo says the folding MacBook is “more likely to be costly” and the invoice of supplies “may method that of the present Imaginative and prescient Professional.” Apple at the moment sells a 16-inch MacBook Professional that begins at $3,499 but it surely has a high-end M3 Max processor, 36GB of RAM and 1TB of storage. Primarily based on Kuo’s clarification, a folding MacBook would considerably decrease specs for the same worth.

Nevertheless, Apple’s first folding system will probably be a much bigger hit than Imaginative and prescient Professional, with Kuo estimating greater than one million models in 2026.