Gurman says Apple's OLED MacBook Pro will get much lighter without getting much thinner

The person who feels a MacBook Pro's weight is the one carrying the 16-inch model between a desk and a meeting room. Weight and thickness already vary separately in Apple's current lineup. On GSMArena's figures, the 16-inch is only 1.3mm thicker than the 15.5mm 14-inch, yet it weighs between 0.52kg and 0.60kg more ^[7][12][13].

Gurman's latest post is about that gap. "I don't think it'll be significantly thinner in the end," he wrote on X late Wednesday, replying to a question about the machine ^[1]. His October 2026 newsletter had already described the new models as "significantly lighter" ^[5].

In Gurman's 2025 reporting, the pitch was a thinner machine ^[3][4]. According to 9to5Mac, the thing users complain about is weight, more often than thickness ^[10]. The same site notes that plenty of people buy a MacBook Pro simply because it is the best laptop Apple sells, with no video or coding workload behind the purchase ^[11].

9to5Mac's reassurance for pro users is an inference from one dimension. The reports do not include a port list or battery figures for the new machine, and it will be Apple's first laptop with a touchscreen ^[6].

I'd hold refreshes for staff who carry the machine most days. The wait is short whichever reported launch date holds: counting from MacRumors' October 8 report, even the end of November is 53 days away ^[15][14][16]. The cost is a few more weeks on current hardware, and an order placed before anyone outside Apple has published a port list.

Sort the fleet by two things: whether the laptop leaves the desk most days, and whether the work depends on today's ports or long sustained loads. Heavy users who travel gain most from the rumored design. They should wait, then read the port list and sustained-load reviews before a bulk order. Staff who travel with light workloads get the weight cut and need little else, so a few weeks' wait costs them little. Heavy users who stay at a desk gain nothing from a lighter chassis, so their case for waiting rests on the M6 chips and the OLED touchscreen ^[6][14]. Light desk users will find nothing in this leak that changes their plan.