Apple seems to be on a launching spree lately, with one new product after another making its way to your nearest stores. The latest additions to the lineup include the touchscreen MacBook Pro, the new iMac with M6 chip, and the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 chip.
To be really honest, it feels like these launches are part of Apple’s yearly quota of doing something with the products and devices they already have instead of actually bringing about some innovation. The upgrades are either barely incremental or pretty unnecessary, the pricing is perplexing, and everything is kind of underwhelming.
On that high note and without further ado, let’s take a look at the cards (or apples) that we’ve been dealt.
Touchscreen MacBook Pro
The star of the show is in the name itself—the touchscreen feature. Which is great, but was it ever needed? It’s a question we keep asking with Apple launches.
The keyboard and the trackpad are still there though, so that’s good.
The iPhone-inspired Dynamic Island feature has been added, which also provides quick access to Spotlight, Live Activities, music controls, and Siri AI. The new PROLED XDR display is also great with better contrast, and improved colour accuracy, with up to 2,000 nits of peak brightness and a 120Hz adaptive refresh rate.
Unlike the standard M6-powered MacBook Pro, the touchscreen models will be using Apple’s M5 Pro and M5 Max chips. Both models are thinner and lighter than their predecessors, which is a thing Apple has been doing with so many of its products lately.
Battery, connectivity, AI, and memory have incremental upgrades, as usual.
Now for the wallet damage: the 14-inch MacBook Pro starts at ₹3,49,900 and the 16-inch model starts at ₹4,09,900. While the other two in the lineup didn’t get any increments in price, this one is just off-the-charts expensive and familiar territory with Apple.
Both are available with M5 Pro, with higher-priced M5 Max configurations also offered. Pre-orders have already started since October 28 while store availability in India begins from November 9, 2026.
New iMac
The biggest upgrade to the Mac desktop is the new M6 chip, which brings a faster CPU and GPU, with up to 12 cores each. Compared to the previous M4-powered iMac, Apple claims up to 1.5 times faster performance for everyday productivity tasks and doubly-improved graphics performance for demanding workloads such as photo editing. Gaming also gets a boost.
There’s of course AI, improved and refined. With upgraded Neural Engine and Neural Accelerators built into its GPU, AI-powered tasks become more efficient. Connectivity gets an upgrade, too, with Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and faster SSD performance.
The 24-inch 4.5K Retina display remains as it was, alongside the 12MP Center Stage camera.
The one good thing about iMacs is that they always get the rainbows and sunshine design and Apple has thankfully continued the legacy in this one as well. Users can choose from seven colours: blue, green, pink, yellow, purple, orange and silver.
Now, for the only part that is raising eyebrows: in a surprising turn of events, Apple has not increased the base price of the iMac. The new iMac with M6 starts at ₹1,74,900 in India, SAME as its predecessor while the higher-end variant, featuring a 12-core CPU and GPU, starts at ₹1,99,900.
On a logical level, the price point makes complete sense. With hardly any worthwhile upgrade, there shouldn’t really be a big markup in the prices. However, considering how whacky Apple has been with the prices lately, especially in India, this choice to not increase the price is all levels of WILD.
MacBook Pro 14-inch with M6
There’s nothing exciting, you will be pretty much re-reading the same upgrades as the iMac here: more performance, more AI power, longer battery life, blah blah blah, you get the idea.
They’ve given certain percentage improvements in graphics and performance—they are all multiples of 5 (as usual) and there’s really not a conclusive way to make sure that those numbers are right. We’ll just have to take their word for it as always.
Apple claims up to 24 hours on a single charge, making this the longest-lasting MacBook Pro yet. The laptop also gets Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6, along with faster storage for handling large files.
It retains the 14-inch Liquid Retina XDR display, with an optional nano-texture finish, a 12MP Center Stage camera, a six-speaker sound system, and a generous selection of ports. It will be available in space black and silver colours.
Here as well, they have not increased the price tag, keeping it the same as the previous M5 version. Thus, the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 starts at ₹2,39,900 in India.
Pre-orders for both the MacBook Pro with M6 and the new iMac have begun since October 28, 2026, with store availability starting November 6.
These launches have been both interesting and uninteresting at the same time. Apple seems to be doing things rather randomly these days. The performance improvements are nice, sure, but they are hardly groundbreaking for anyone who has been keeping up with the company’s yearly refresh cycle.
What’s noteworthy, though, is that Apple hasn’t increased the starting prices of the new iMac and 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6, despite the so-called upgrades. Meanwhile, the iPad mini, a device that was supposed to be the more budget-friendly option in the iPad lineup, now costs ₹82,900 for a set of improvements that are pretty much the same as the aforementioned devices.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is a revolutionary new pricing strategy from Apple that I would like to call “What the Hell?”.
And then there’s the touchscreen MacBook Pro. Is the touchscreen a genuinely useful addition for some people? Probably. Is it also a convenient excuse to sell yet another premium device with a feature many users could happily live without? Absolutely.
But then this has been their forte since forever, so at least they are consistent on that front.
