Report: Ternus leads design as Apple’s planned MacBook Pro gets lighter

Bloomberg reports that John Ternus is taking a hands-on role across Apple’s hardware and software design teams, effectively filling a design-leadership gap at the company. One early test of that role may be the planned MacBook Pro redesign: the model is expected to pair an OLED screen, whose pixels produce their own light for deeper contrast, with touch input for the first time on a Mac. The report says Apple has reworked the laptop’s internals—shrinking and rearranging components—to make it significantly lighter. That matters because Apple would be trying to add a new display technology and a touch layer without making its premium laptop less portable; Apple has not announced the product or confirmed its specifications.