Hot Tech This Week: Touch-Screen MacBook Pro and OLED iPad mini Go on Sale, With Full Reviews

11. MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display

Joe Osborne gave the 14-inch model 4.0 out of 5 and an Editors' Choice award in his full PCMag review. His summary of the screen reads, "It's Apple's first touch panel, and the finest laptop OLED we’ve seen." The cons he lists are short and blunt: "Screen upgrades drive a sizable price hike" and "Fans are loud under load." He also found that a lot of touching gets tiring, and the panel smudges easily unless you pay extra for Apple's nano-texture coating.

Andrew E. Freedman tested the 16-inch version for Tom's Hardware and gave it an Editor's Choice too. He calls the screen "the best laptop screen I've ever seen." His first reason to skip it is two words long: "Very expensive."

He has a point. On Apple's store, the 14-inch model starts at $2,899 with an M5 Pro chip, 24GB of memory and 1TB of storage, and the 16-inch starts at $3,399. Apple lists the 14-inch at 3.0 pounds with the M5 Pro and up to 22 hours of video streaming.

22. iPad mini (A20 Pro)

Nathan Ingraham reviewed it for Engadget on Nov 3 and scored it 8.5 out of 10. He lists a "Lovely OLED display" as a pro, and his two cons are the ones most buyers will notice: "$200 more expensive than the last iPad mini was at launch" and "Screen refresh rate is still 60Hz."

Scharon Harding at Ars Technica is even warmer about the hardware: "There isn’t much more you can ask of an iPad this small." Her complaint is the price, which she points out sits just $50 under the cheapest 11-inch iPad Air.

Apple's spec page lists an 8.5-inch OLED screen at 2316 by 1512, an IP67 rating for water and dust (up to 1 meter for up to 30 minutes) and up to 10 hours of web browsing on Wi-Fi or watching video. It comes in Midnight or Starlight.

33. Fitbit Edge

We covered the early reviews of Google's Edge last week, and the price hasn't moved. Google's spec page lists a 1.3-inch AMOLED screen, built-in GPS and up to 7 days of battery life. It works with iPhones on iOS 16.4 or higher and Android phones on Android 11 or newer.

The store page also pitches three months of Google Health Premium "on us." That's the membership that Google's personalized coaching, built with Gemini, comes with. Google's Fitbit Edge store footnote says the trial is for new and returning users only (one per customer, not transferable), requires a payment method and a compatible device, lasts three months, then auto-renews at $9.99 a month unless you cancel, and the offer ends 10/27/27; you must be 18 or older, and Premium isn't available in every country. See the store footnote and g.co/fitbit/terms.

44. Dell XPS 16 Creator Edition

Still $3,799.99. That base model gets NVIDIA's RTX Spark N1X chip with 18 cores, 32GB of memory, a 512GB SSD and a 16-inch touch screen at 3200 x 2000. Dell lists it at 0.70 inch thick and 4.45 pounds at minimum.

If you're buying it as a gift, Dell's product page has a holiday return window: consumer purchases made at Dell.com from Nov 1 through Dec 29, 2026 can be returned until Jan 15, 2027, or 30 days from delivery, whichever is later. The one full review we quoted last week tested a $4,799.99 build, not this one.