What Apple's launching in March, and more on the AppleInsider Podcast

Tim Cook made us want to skip the weekend and get straight to the new launches Apple has for us starting on Monday. That might include a low-cost MacBook, but then further ahead there's a hint of a touch-screen MacBook Pro later this year, all on the AppleInsider Podcast.

If a MacBook is announced in March, it won't be a MacBook Pro — but a touch-screen one is expected later in 2026
What we actually know about next week is that there will be launches. Tim Cook doesn't hint if there's nothing much to say, but he also tagged his post #AppleLaunch.

So we know something is coming, and if you listen to the leaks, actually everything is coming. If you've ever heard it rumored, it's all due out next week for sure.

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What Apple's launching in March, and more on the AppleInsider Podcast

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Fri Feb 27 2026, 08:20 AM EST
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If a MacBook is announced in March, it won't be a MacBook Pro -- but a touch-screen one is expected later in 2026

Tim Cook made us want to skip the weekend and get straight to the new launches Apple has for us starting on Monday. That might include a low-cost MacBook, but then further ahead there's a hint of a touch-screen MacBook Pro later this year, all on the AppleInsider Podcast.

What we actually know about next week is that there will be launches. Tim Cook doesn't hint if there's nothing much to say, but he also tagged his post #AppleLaunch.

So we know something is coming, and if you listen to the leaks, actually everything is coming. If you've ever heard it rumored, it's all due out next week for sure.

In truth we do not know what is coming, and no one outside Apple either can know or say if they do. But there are some likely contenders, and there are also ones that simply have no chance at all.

This is the year we'll see the iPhone 17e, it looks like it'll be the year we see low-cost MacBooks, and if the jury is still out on the iPhone Fold, there will be an iPhone 18 range. Join us to figure out what's coming ahead of Apple's March 4, 2026, "Apple Experience."

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• Compromises for affordability ahead: Code leak spills details on new MacBook

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• Touch-screen OLED MacBook Pro to get small Dynamic Island

• Experience F1 tracks with 3D art in Apple Maps ahead of each race

• Why Gen Z and young adults are embracing iPods again

• Nerds are fighting to bring back gadgets even as iPhone wants them dead

• If iPhone Fold is truly coming in 2026, expect big leaks very soon

• Right on schedule, test production of iPhone 18 Pro fires up

• iPhone Fold hinge crease will be about 1/4 the depth of the Galaxy Fold 7

• Expect at least five announcements during Apple's March launch week

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