OLED MacBook Pro will be significantly lighter, Bloomberg's Gurman reports, as Apple's 13 October event is confirmedOLED MacBook Pro will be significantly lighter, Bloomberg's Gurman reports, as Apple's 13 October event is confirmed

Apple's first MacBook Pro with an OLED touchscreen will be significantly lighter than the current models, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported in his Power On newsletter on 4 October.

This is a leak at the reported grade: a named journalist with a long record on Apple, with no code or images behind it. Bloomberg's page refused our requests, and MacRumors, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider and iClarified all quote the same newsletter, so this is one source. Apple has announced nothing and has not commented.

According to those accounts, Gurman says Apple has re-engineered the inside of the machine, shrinking parts and moving components around so that it is much easier to carry. He gives no weight and no percentage. 9to5Mac notes that he describes the difference as one current owners would notice immediately.

How much does the MacBook Pro weigh now?

Apple's specification page gives these weights for the current M5 generation.

9to5Mac puts the 16-inch model at 4.8 pounds; Apple's own page says 4.7, and we use Apple's figure. For comparison, MacRumors and AppleInsider give the 15-inch MacBook Air as 3.3 pounds, and MacRumors gives the MacBook Neo as 2.7. AppleInsider points out that a lighter MacBook Pro was first reported in 2024, so the new part is the word significantly.

The rest of the reported specification is unchanged from Gurman's earlier accounts: 14-inch and 16-inch models, an OLED display that responds to touch, a Dynamic Island in place of the notch, a thinner case, and M5 Pro and M5 Max chips. He repeats that Apple is testing the machines on macOS 27.2, which is in beta, and MacRumors relays a launch window of October or November.

The rest of the newsletter: an event on 13 October and the iPad mini

Gurman had already reported that Apple would launch a home hub, a new HomePod mini and a new Apple TV 4K on Tuesday 13 October. In this newsletter he says Apple is planning to hold an event that day, MacRumors reports. Whether that means a streamed keynote or a press briefing is not stated.

He also moves the OLED iPad mini. iClarified reports that Gurman now expects it between late October and November, after the 13 October event, where earlier he had said October. That is reported grade too, and Apple has said nothing about it.

Our take

Weight is the change on this list that nobody can test in a shop window and everybody notices in a bag. The 16-inch MacBook Pro weighs 2.14 kg, and on the figures above the gap to the 15-inch Air is more than 600 grams. A touchscreen makes that gap matter more, not less: a laptop people reach across and prod is also one they pick up and move more often. Apple pairing touch with a lighter chassis is consistent with that, and it is why we take the report seriously despite the missing number.

The missing number is the point to hold on to. Significantly lighter could mean 200 grams or 500, and the difference decides whether the 16-inch model becomes a machine people carry daily or stays a desk laptop that is slightly easier to lift. Shrinking components also tends to cost something somewhere, often battery capacity or cooling headroom, and nothing reported so far says which, if either, Apple gave up.

On timing, the newsletter fits the picture we set out when Gurman first named October for Apple's first touchscreen MacBook Pros: a crowded month with the home hub, HomePod mini and Apple TV on 13 October and the iPhone Duo ten days later. The iPad mini sliding towards November is the first visible sign of that calendar loosening, and it does not change what we said about the iPad mini 8 leaks, where only the A20 Pro has evidence behind it. APPDOOK's advice to anyone choosing a 16-inch MacBook Pro this month is unchanged and slightly stronger: wait a few weeks, because the reported replacement now has a second reason to exist.