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3 stories filed under laptop on Spoot: Spotted Early. The newest of them: “I keep forgetting the MacBook Pro has a touchscreen”, “Apple's gadget lab is messy and I'm genuinely charmed”, and “Googlebook isn't one laptop: it's an Android-native invite to everyone else's hardware”. I keep forgetting the MacBook Pro has a touchscreen, which is honestly the most Apple thing about it. Apple's gadget lab is messy and I'm genuinely charmed. Spoot: Spotted Early New things, caught while they're still new and a little weird. Spoot finds fresh gadgets, clever inventions, crowdfunding campaigns,… The list below is every laptop story on Spoot: Spotted Early, newest first.
I keep forgetting the MacBook Pro has a touchscreen
I keep forgetting the MacBook Pro has a touchscreen, which is honestly the most Apple thing about it. For a week, I've been testing this new 16-inch PROLED Pro, and my brain keeps circling back to the slimmer design, the improved display, that Dynamic Island. Then I remember: I can just reach out and poke the glass. Steve Jobs said touch laptops were a bad idea. A subset of users demanded one anyway. Apple delivered, but not in the obvious way. It's a quiet rebellion, buried in a machine that otherwise feels like a familiar friend. That tension is the razor clam here. If you like your tech with a side of historical irony, this one's for you.
Apple's gadget lab is messy and I'm genuinely charmed
Apple's gadget lab is messy and I'm genuinely charmed. The iPhone gets more screens, the MacBook finally lets you poke it, and the HomeView just runs CarPlay apps. After years of polish, the most successful product maker on earth has decided to try things again, even when "trying" means slapping a touch panel on a lovely new MacBook Pro just to see if you'll use it. The results aren't always perfect, but watching Apple experiment is its own kind of fun. On The Vergecast, David and Nilay debate touchscreen laptops, and Nilay explains exactly why he's buying that new MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display. If you're in the mood for more delightfully weird hardware, check out our piece on the mycelium disposable camera that decomposes before your photos do. Stay spooty.
Googlebook isn't one laptop: it's an Android-native invite to everyone else's hardware
Google didn't build a laptop. It built a door and handed out keys. The new Googlebook project skips the house-brand hardware entirely, instead offering a desktop platform that several manufacturers will bolt onto their own machines. The twist that actually got my attention? It's native Android. No virtualized layer, no emulator shim, just apps running the way they do on your phone. That's the razor clam in this spec sheet, the detail hiding under all that "partnership ecosystem" language. I like it. Google has spent years making Android feel at home on phones, and now it's daring the laptop world to catch up. Will it work? The manufacturers are the wildcards, and the real test is whether the software feels as tight on a big screen as it does in your palm. I'm curious.