Foldable MacBook Pro delayed to at least 2027

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Technical challenges mean that Apple won’t be able to launch a foldable MacBook Pro in 2025 as expected, says Ming-Chi Kuo, and it may not be out until late 2027 or 2028.

It’s previously been rumored that Apple was working on an all-screen, foldable MacBook Pro, which would have a 20.3-inch display. According to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, though, the the project has been delayed by years — and the 20.3-inch version has been dropped.

While Kuo says that the final display size has been “confirmed at 18.8 inches,” he gives no specific basis for this. He does, though, refer to his supply chain surveys for the rest of his report, in which he casts doubt on a folding iPad.

Kuo previously expected a foldable iPad to be launched in 2024. So did research firm CCS Insight, and seemingly even Samsung was predicting the same.

In his new report, Kuo refers to a prevailing belief that a foldable iPad would launch in 2025. He says there’s no indication of that date or of any folding iPad.

He comments that this may “be because some call this foldable MacBook a foldable iPad.” That would fit as presumably it will only be the software macOS that will distinguish an all-screen MacBook Pro from an all-screen iPad.

While Apple itself has of course not commented on future products it has filed multiple patents to do with research into folding displays. The most-often rumored result of which, though, is the expected iPhone Fold.