Try Before You Buy: MacOS 27 Golden Gate Lets You Give a Touchscreen MacBook a Go - CNET

Our gifting experts are obsessively searching for holiday gifts that are unique, thoughtful and suitable for any budget. Our expert, award-winning staff selects the products we cover and rigorously researches and tests our top picks. If you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. With expanded touch support in Sidecar, you can, for the first time, navigate MacOS via touch. We could see a touchscreen MacBook later this year, but MacOS Golden Gate offers a way to try out how it might feel. If the touchscreen MacBook is 100% happening, the question shifts from, “Will Apple finally release a MacBook with touch support?” to, “Do I want to buy a MacBook with touch support?” Thanks to an expanded touch feature in MacOS Golden Gate, the next version of Apple’s desktop software, you can begin to answer that question without waiting for a MacBook with an OLED touchscreen display to arrive. Apple is sure to tweak future versions of MacOS to make it more touch-friendly, but if we get a touchscreen MacBook later this year or early next year, it will arrive with Golden Gate. And Golden Gate doesn’t look drastically different from MacOS Tahoe. It doesn’t introduce larger buttons or menus